Yet another disaster picture from director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day), this boasts some whopping scenes of destruction, but it is ultimately a special-effects demo reel that runs out of money shots. You know there’s a problem when a movie about tornadoes, floods and hurricanes turns to escaped zoo wolves and a leg infection for drama

One of the most fascinating stories of World War II – that of Navajo-Americans who fought as radio men, using their native language as an impenetrable code – falls prey to the White Man Syndrome. Windtalkers spends more time following Nicolas Cage’s anguished sergeant through a series of war-film cliches than the journey of Ben

You can forgive an adventure movie just about anything except dullness, which is all this video-game adaptation has to offer thanks to a labyrinthine plot. Angelina Jolie plays the title heroine, a comely British explorer who uses a push-up bra for a compass, and she certainly cuts a striking figure. But with unimaginative action scenes

Sometimes by intent, often by chance, director Edward Zwick makes military-themed movies that prick our national consciousness. After Glory, The Siege and Courage Under Fire comes this grand Tom Cruise vehicle about a Civil War veteran who is recruited to modernize the Japanese army. Arriving at a time of heated debate over U.S. involvement in

Sean Connery inaugurated the Bond franchise with Dr. No, in which everyone’s favorite British spy travels to Jamaica and gets tangled up with the CIA, the title villain and Ursula Andress. As an espionage thriller, this is less than impressive. The silly plot, the cartoonishly megalomaniacal Dr. No and the unapologetic eye candy (Andress literally

First and foremost a continuation of director Michael Mann’s love affair with nocturnal urban landscapes, Collateral centers around a night-shift cabbie (Jamie Foxx) kidnapped by a professional killer (Tom Cruise, callous and funny) and forced to drive him from hit to hit. Fluorescent lighting courses through the movie, set as it is in Los Angeles,

As a Los Angeles police detective gone bad, Denzel Washington is so determined to put the heroic characters of his past behind him that he turns this one into a villainous cartoon. All of his trademarks – his authoritative speech pattern, that unwavering stare – are turned inside out here and amplified, to less than