MGM Pictures repeatedly delayed the release date of this remake, apparently waiting for the movie to become watchable. The studio should have kept waiting. Astonishingly inept, the film is a rushing blur of incoherent action sequences, stilted narrative patches and a chase scene filmed, for no clear reason, in the green tint of night-vision goggles.

Matthew McConaughey’s modern-day explorer Dirk Pitt – the priceless name and character come from Clive Cussler’s series of novels – is a riff on Indiana Jones, if Indiana Jones had spent three years in the weight room. McConaughey may be weighty, but Sahara – in which the star, Steve Zahn and Penelope Cruz chase a

Just when you’ve written this off as a tired retread of Top Gun – this time with the twist of an artificially intelligent fighter plane – director Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious) throws enough impressive action into the mix to offer some surprises. The rest mainly consists of Jamie Foxx, Jessica Biel and

Another silly hot-rod movie, with fewer thrills than unintentional laughs. Martin Henderson plays a biker who is caught between drug dealers and the FBI. His red-leather racing suit has “Carpe Diem” emblazoned on the front, but Dead Poets Society this is not.

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

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.

Dwayne “The Rock” plays Beck, a nice-guy knee breaker who’s sent after an indebted explorer (Seann William Scott) in the Amazon jungle. All of it is mildly amusing and fairly innocuous until the climax, when the previously gun-averse Beck reluctantly grabs a huge weapon in each hand and then rises into the melee like a

Big, loud and dumb in every possible way, Sylvester Stallone’s racing debacle (he wrote the script and stars) can’t even qualify as a car wreck since it’s not interesting enough to look at as you drive by. In trying to capture his past glory, Stallone’s made a movie that seems plucked from some Hollywood time

Adapted from the best-selling series of novels based on the Rapture, this metaphysical thriller never rises above its straight-to-video production values, from the subpar special effects to the acting of Kirk Cameron. The film’s conviction is admirable – this is that rare movie that actually believes in something – until it gives way to awkward