Owen Wilson is a comic actor as odd and quirky as his dented nose, but Behind Enemy Lines smooths him out into a generic action figure. He plays a Navy pilot who’s shot down over Bosnia, and even his clever ad libs are drowned out by the roar of jet engines. This is one of

The Transporter features little more than a guy, some fast cars, a lot of guns and a girl. But it knows what to do with them. Jason Statham, as the underground courier of the title, brings a calm but lethal concentration to the ensuing action scenes. “Some fancy driving,” a police inspector observes at one

Action maestro John Woo (Face/Off) plays director-for-hire with this run-of-the-mill Hollywood take on a Philip K. Dick story. The movie is about having your memory erased – Ben Affleck plays a corporate shark who loses three years of his life – and Woo fans will want to add it to the list of forgettable efforts

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