The creative team behind Romeo Must Die and Exit Wounds – namely director Andrzej Bartkowiak and star DMX – return for this crime thriller, and despite the fact that Exit Wounds co-star Steven Seagal is nowhere to be found, the air of silliness he projects still lingers. The unintentionally comedic lowlight? When Hong Kong action

Matrix-style massacres erupt throughout Equilibrium, yet unlike its predecessor, the movie has a tougher time balancing its violence with Kafka-inspired philosophy. Christian Bale stars as a futuristic government official hunting down those who express emotions, which have been outlawed. After shooting his own partner for reading Yeats, he begins to question his vocation. The film

Broad themes – courage, patriotism, warfare – dressed up in Lawrence of Arabia finery. Heath Ledger stars as a British officer who suddenly quits his post on the eve of an 1898 mission to the English colony of the Sudan, while the likes of Wes Bentley and Kate Hudson lend solid support as the fiance

The Great Raid yearns to be epic, but the movie can’t measure up to its remarkable true story: the rescue of more than 500 American detainees from a Japanese prison camp in the Philippines during the final days of World War II. The cast is lightweight – Benjamin Bratt, Joseph Fiennes and James Franco play

Starring Bruce Willis and Colin Farrell as American soldiers in a World War II prisoner-of-war camp, Hart’s War seems to be auditioning plot lines as it goes along. The movie begins as a military action film, later turns into a POW drama and then detours into a courtroom mystery before climaxing as an escape flick.