A major disappointment, this dramatization of a real-life 1991 boating tragedy plays like a high-brow version of Speed 2: Cruise Control. Whereas that movie was just an excuse to crash a cruise ship into a harbor, this film twiddles its dramatic thumbs until we finally get to those much-advertised killer waves. From nautical specialist Wolfgang

Penguins occasionally appear in this Disney adventure set in Antarctica, but if the intent was to conjure up warm associations with March of the Penguins, which came out a bit earlier, the strategy backfires. After being mesmerized by the struggles of actual antarctic creatures, why would kids want to settle for this faux animal drama,

The Recruit, about a computer whiz (Colin Farrell) who is tapped by a shadowy figure (Al Pacino) to enter an elite CIA training program, takes the spy movie maxim that no one can be trusted and blows it up to outrageous proportions. There’s hardly a single conversation between the characters that doesn’t involve some level

Almost ridiculous enough to be delectable camp, this umpteenth adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ novel is the kind of overheated historical adventure in which the bad guys sport yellow teeth rather than black hats. While most of the cast seems aware of the inherent silliness – Guy Pearce voraciously chews each line of dialogue as the

What’s more tired: Die Hard scenarios or Steven Seagal? We get both in Half Past Dead, an endlessly silly shoot-’em-up in which Seagal plays an undercover FBI agent imprisoned on reopened Alcatraz Island. Seagal’s co-star is rapper Ja Rule, and the two make a ludicrous pair. The well-past-his-prime Seagal tries to hide his burgeoning belly

Though delayed from its initial release date due to 9/11, this Arnold Schwarzenegger extravaganza – about a firefighter hunting the Colombian terrorist whose bomb took the lives of his wife and son – still carried an inevitable sadness when it did come out. Now that that has faded, this just has the ususal action antics.