Search: Starring Keanu Reeves

The plot is layered in fantasy and fiction and yet retains a powerful idealism

When we're told "One bullet well placed can be a magical thing," it feels less metaphorical than metaphysical.

It's William Sadler, as Death, who steals the show.

The sheer warm-heartedness of this film means that it is always a delight to watch.

This is not a film that will enable them, or you, to have a good time all of the time.

Coppola's aesthetic is all about excess and lacks the self awareness that let Hammer Horror films get away with this.

Constantine is best enjoyed by ignoring the Milton-centric mythology and surrendering to the movie's lush atmosphere and wicked performances.

Save the planet, buy Citizen Quartz watches and eat at McDonalds!

As the story glides gracefully from pitch-black comedy to complicated tragedy, you are in no doubt this is a film which happened at the right time in the careers of its two central stars, and for cinema.

The themes of friendship and teamwork are targeted at young audiences but it zips along at pace - a reminder that you don't need super-complex plotting, so long as you deliver on laughs.

While not particularly visually inventive, the director has a keen eye for the casually absurd, so that every setting he puts his characters in comes with just the right amount of daftness.

A movie like this should be fun, or disturbing. To be neither means that two-and-a-half hours watching Reeves attempt a purposeful expression and Pacino play the diabolical charm card is a long time waiting for cheesy effects and naked bods.

When the daughter of the richest man in town is dragged from the bottom of a muddy pond because of the psychic's premonition, you know this can be no ordinary thriller.

An exercise in sentimentality.

The film still doesn't work, but not for lack of effort expended.

Evan Schiff's editing is probably the best seen in any film of the past year, and Dan Laustsen's cinematography allows director Chad Stahelski to explore noirish landscapes without sacrificing the high energy vibe.

I can't really fault the action sequences. I can take issue with just about everything else.

Engaging in approximately the same way that a shoot-em-up arcade game is engaging.

Slowly but surely the wonder of moving pictures bleeds to death in the corner of your mind

It makes you want to pick up the scriptwriter and throw him at a concrete wall.

Visually it is astonishing, not only because of its effects and techno trickery, but cinematically the Wachowskis are so audacious.

The second in the trilogy is less innovative and more windy in the speechifying department.

When I finished watching it I was already looking forward to seeing it again, again.

The Matrix Trilogy began with such energy and originality... now it seems more like an expensive video game.

The sense that Van Sant is being too clever by half doesn't diminish the power of his imagery.

This is a film about greatness and those who have it thrust upon them.

As exciting as it is good-looking.

Wry, funny and emotionally-charged.

Eighties-style conveyer belt mish-mash.

The film steers clear of clichés.

It's difficult to imagine any fan of Dick's failing to adore this film; but as it retains the genius of his work, so it retains the flaws, and this could be a big problem for some other viewers.

About the only element this film shares with John Wick is Reeves' determination to play his part with near zero emotional inflection.

Unlike many adaptions it does want to have fun, worrying less about being pixel-perfect or po-faced than propulsive plotting.

A heart-in-your-mouth experience.

Sadly this doesn’t live up to this promise, although it remains a reasonably enjoyable, if somewhat predictable, action thriller.

The story is so predictable you wait for that running-through-the-spray on the beach scene with dread and could choose the girly ballads on the soundtrack with pinpoint accuracy.

The setting may be small-town, but this is a vision in microcosm of a whole nation that has been driven inevitably towards anxiety and unease by self-imposed pressures and impossible aspirations.

The simple search and rescue plot is more than adequate an adventure in which to indulge the antics of our original toys, and allows space to throw in a few choice newcomers.

Money is wasted on explosions and stunts when it should have been given to a script doctor.