Harrison Ford, as a cop who would rather be selling real estate, is loose, lively and often very funny in this action comedy, but the movie itself is lively only in spurts. Writer-director Ron Shelton (Bull Durham, Tin Cup) is after something admirable, but he ends up delivering a combination of Anonymous Police Movie 3,001

Brainless, idiotic action – and somehow still not any fun. Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu play a pair of disgruntled spies, but Thai director Wych Kaosayananda gives the movie’s countless fireballs most of his attention. In the end, it’s hard to decide what’s sillier: the nonsensical back story that explains Banderas’ character or the sight

Another Hong Kong martial arts adventure that received a belated release in the United States, but this one – a Chinese take on the Robin Hood legend – deserves a second look. Director Yuen Wo Ping, the fight choreographer for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Matrix, may not have a knack for narrative (the

A heist movie with heart, thanks to a strong emotional center and an amiable cast. The thieves in this remake – including Mark Wahlberg, Edward Norton and Charlize Theron – banter like the cast of Friends, while their latest job is less about money than avenging the murder of their patriarchal leader. There’s a serviceable

When a movie’s strongest quality is a fantastic, original concept, a sequel can be something of a self-defeating proposition. And so Men in Black II – in which mysterious government agents Kay and Jay (Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith) reunite to monitor the extraterrestrials secretly living among us – is occasionally fun but never

In a generic science-fiction future – you know, the kind full of stark fluorescent lighting and bulky armored cars – a cop (Jet Li) fights his evil double from a parallel universe. Li’s a man of considerable martial arts talent, but you won’t see much of it here. The One has the stiff, dingy look

In this spinoff of Universal Pictures’ Mummy franchise, professional wrestler The Rock proves to be less of a new kind of action hero than a hybrid of the old kinds: he has Arnold Schwarzenegger’s body and Bruce Willis’ sense of irony. It’s a fitting approach for a sword-and-sorcery adventure that winkingly acknowledges it’s just having

A dramatization of a 1961 incident in which a malfunctioning Soviet sub nearly suffered a nuclear meltdown, K-19 is at its creepiest when the threat of radiation begins to haunt the trapped crew. The movie features tight direction by Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break, Strange Days) and the familiar faces of Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson,