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It feels like a two-hour descent into Mordor that makes Gladiator look gay.

David vs Goliath: The Rematch.

It is the journey, not the arrival, that matters.

The true fault lies with the script, which brings no life to the real, or indeed fantasy, characters.

While it is big on atmosphere and features crafty camerawork it is running on empty when it comes to plot.

Pete Travis works hard to bring John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra's apocalyptic vision to life.

The acting is strong, especialy Ray Winstone, Phil Davis and Steven Waddington.

This is often made of smaller moments, questions, answers, the unasked, the unsaid.

The twists in the plot have a satisfactory gloss to them, as if the element of surprise is a new cocktail.

The designers are caught in an unfortunate time loop that keeps dragging them back to the Eighties.

The characters are thinly drawn.

The past and present are linked with only limited success.

Nine Bullets is not just an action film, which it is…but a film in which characters develop, learn and learn to get along.

As an adaptation of Pushkin's narrative poem, Michael Ignatieff and Peter Ettedgui have delivered a modern screenplay that rips through convention to the pulsing heart of a country girl's passion for a sophisticated urban aristocrat.

Coogan and Henry Normal's script is full of invention.

Aficionados of the whodunit won't be disappointed.

For all its flaws, The Purge is for the most part an exciting and thought-provoking thriller.

For an erotic thriller it's pretty short on both thrills and eroticism.

Everything Hannibal failed to be.

Overall, though Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles certainly isn’t terrible, its biggest problem is that it will always lie in the shadow of Cameron’s unrelenting vision.

The best episodes are still those which focus on Derek or offer flashes to the future.

Engage with it on its own terms, treat it as what it is, which is light, frothy and fun and it is a perfectly acceptable 90 minutes of entertainment.