Search: Starring Jet Li

Car chases, explosions, stunts and gun battles have been honed to a level of expertise that retains the highest standard.

The Expendables 2 has the cast you feel the first one should've had - though Steven Seagal is really needed to complete the alignment of the planets - but it fails to craft anything really unique on its own with these assets.

This is a giant, proud B-movie, the kind of movie that Hollywood doesn’t put into multiplexes much any more.

You get what you pay for with a little bit of humour to lubricate the violence

It's a loving homage, even verging on pastiche, but while it never comes close to wasting the talents of those involved it does fall short of its potential.

Every cinematic trick in the book to make Hero's violence as sexy as a car commercial

There is no humour in the film, only viciousness and violence.

Fortunately the elaborate back-story is more than a springboard for the action sequences - which are some of the very best you’re likely to see - and actually stands up as comic glue for the proceedings - even if some of the humour is lost in translation.

The real plot doesn't start for almost an hour and when it does is less interesting than a Roger Moore 007 caper.

This reimagining of Mulan is up there with David Lowery's Pete's Dragon in finding something fresh to say with the material by jettisoning the songs and the emphasis on comedy in favour of bringing its more emotional and adventurous themes to the fore.

With acting this wooden one might as well be watching a puppet show.

The One is a movie which really knows what it's about; but which, sadly, is about all of it within the first ten minutes, at least as far as the plot is concerned.

What you're watching the film for is the fighting scenes, and they don't disappoint.

The film has an admirable discipline, encouraged by Li's unshowy style.

Unusually powerful, due to Besson's ability to interweave shockingly brutal violence with intimate human storylines.

Although far too narratively dense to become the international crossover hit this is nevertheless a fairly engaging, visually sumptuous film.

As Edwin Starr asked, 'War! (huh) What is it good for?'. On the evidence, it's fair to say 'Absolutely nothing'.