Incredible Hulk, The (2008)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

Star Edward Norton and director Louis Leterrier make the second attempt to breathe life into what is an uninspired comic-book creation (sorry Hulk fans). The doomed romanticism of the story feels crudely lifted, as it has been, from the King Kong myth and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, while the special effects still aren’t capable of convincing

First Blood (1982)

Action/Adventure Rated R

First Blood has an unflattering reputation, mainly due to its increasingly outlandish sequels. The original picture does get loonier as it goes along, yet for a while it’s actually a mournful and sobering action-movie treatment of postwar stress. Sylvester Stallone created his second iconic character in six years in John Rambo, a Vietnam veteran harassed

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“Everyone joking about Harrison Ford’s advanced age seems to be forgetting one thing…”

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Action/Adventure Rated PG

The original Indiana Jones movie is goofy and adolescent in a good way – the sort of rollicking adventure a gaggle of innocent kids might dream up in their backyard on a summer afternoon. Director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas aimed to make an homage to the movie serials of their youth and they

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“A blueprint for how a blockbuster sequel should be done.”

Speed Racer (2008)

Action/Adventure Rated PG

“I propose a universal law concerning chimpanzees and the movies…

Forbidden Kingdom, The (2008)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“A juvenile piece of cultural appropriation, The Forbidden Kingdom doesn’t even have the good manners to focus on the two martial-arts masters.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Action/Adventure Rated PG

“One of those occasional Steven Spielberg disasters…”

The Dark Knight (2008)

Action/Adventure Rated PG-13

“Oppressive but never overwrought, the movie takes us deep into pop madness.”

Doomsday (2008)

Action/Adventure Rated R

“The survivors have made it a priority – as they have in so many post-apocalyptic action flicks – to store up provisions of mascara and hair dye.