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The thriller element of all is slickly written and the tension well generated, but sometimes it struggles for air amid the film’s more soapy subplots.

The film goes for broke. No safety net. No apologies. Believing in itself.

Scott surpasses himself. The visual quality of the action sequences is exceptional.

Banderas is convincing in this role but he is the only actor who brings any grace to a movie which is filmed with a dark and obscure filter to match the unredeemingly seedy world it portrays.

The humour remains below the waist, dominated by Ferrell’s overbearing machismo

Sentimentality washes over the cold, technical body of the screenplay.

Haggis weaves his tapestry with infinite skill, aided by exquisite performances.

Painfully self-conscious, trying ultra hard to be wacky and repeatedly missing the mark.

The film gleefully rips off everything from genre classics like The Terminator to recent upstarts such as Shoot 'Em Up, but manages to do it with a tongue so firmly in cheek that you should be too busy grinning to care.

It's DoA meets The Wizard Of Oz with Matt Damon as an irradiated Dorothy.

Equilibrium is that rarest of cinematic entities, a film which succeeds both as intelligent science fiction and as action drama.

The humour is fast, the car chases hairy, the characters way wicked, the venues seedy, the fun accident prone, the sex tantric and the chance of living until tomorrow slim.

Mann’s film is a stone-cold masterpiece.

Jones spares none of the gory details in his depiction of the way the West really was.

Amounts to a criminal thriller with extra magic

You can't help feeling British audiences may well embrace the film's oddness - and blatant anti-American stance - which while not always successfully executed, means there is rarely a dull moment.

There is no room for quirky individualism, as writer Bill Wittliff shovels on the sentimentality. Even the dialogue is highlighted with italics.

I feel that after all this time I have been part of the escape team

Bigelow delivers a neo noir that hides its hope and redemption under a throbbing veil of paranoia, tension and adrenalin.

The central plot is that old fave of the superhero genre - world domination

The whole film looks rushed, the intention being to get the audience through the rollercoaster fast enough so they do not notice the peeling paint and loose wires of this particular ride.

Run-of-the-mill means straight-to-video and that's what this should have been.