The joy of 1999’s The Mummy, an Indiana Jones homage with a breezy attitude and exhilarating action, was that it moved light on its feet. This sequel, like most, gets bogged down by an overblown scope (relentless special effects, a convoluted narrative) designed to meet high expectations. Featuring the ballyhooed appearance of professional wrestling’s The

In this routine martial-arts thriller, Jet Li gets upstaged by overblown violence and raunchy sex. Li looks uncomfortable during most of it, especially during his awkward scenes opposite Bridget Fonda as a hooker with a heart of cliches.

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer lightens up on the sadistic violence and excessive sex of The Rock and Con Air for this entertaining, character-driven car-heist flick starring Nicolas Cage. To top it off, the action scenes even make sense – a blessing considering that this is pretty much one long car chase from beginning to end. With

This Jackie Chan vehicle – about a chauffeur who inherits his boss’ Inspector Gadget-style monkey suit – is a disastrous waste of the Hong Kong superstar’s comic-athletic talents. The tuxedo is operated by a wristwatch that offers a variety of commands, from rifle assembly to demolition mode. One additional option it could have used? How

If Nickelodeon ever remade Beverly Hills Cop, it would look something like this. In other words, like something no one really needs. Nick Cannon, who got his start on Nickelodeon’s “All That” sketch series, plays Tracy “Tre” Stokes, a mouthy Los Angeles bike cop who gets stuck in a plot that’s as dated as his

Writer-director Stephen Sommers (The Mummy) means to marry classic horror icons in an effects-laden extravaganza centered on the title monster-hunter (Hugh Jackman), but the movie is done in by overkill – too many characters, too much action, too complicated of a plot. It’s a blockbuster that’s too big for its own hero.

Guilty pleasure Seann William Scott (American Pie, Road Trip) trades in his usual air of dimwitted smugness for action-hero posturing in this shoddy Shanghai Noon–Rush Hour rip-off. As a holy man who gets mixed up with Scott’s pickpocket while protecting an all-powerful scroll, Chow Yun-Fat (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) manages to express amusement at his

Hardly a mind-blowing piece of science fiction, Red Planet still entertains as an outer space version of television’s “Survivor.” After five men crash-land on Mars, they engage in a series of wily tactics, machinations and double-crosses that eventually result in only one of them returning to Earth.

The manic, messy and magical style of director Terry Gilliam (Brazil, 12 Monkeys) defines this clever riff on fairy tales, in which the title brothers (Matt Damon and Heath Ledger, both delightfully light on their feet) pretend to be ghostbusters in 19th-century Germany. Like Neil Jordan’s The Company of Wolves and Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s