Director Tim Burton apes a standard blockbuster filmmaking style in this satisfying remake of the 1968 science-fiction classic. There’s plenty of entertaining makeup effects and action here, but Burton’s talent for imposing his personal vision on the most commercial of pop tableaus (Batman, Sleepy Hollow) never shines through.

This crime farce may have been the movie of the moment when it first came out, what with director Guy Ritchie’s marriage to Madonna and its hip international cast, including Brad Pitt, Benicio Del Toro and a bunch of Brits. But Snatch is about as cool as a day-old corpse. As he follows a stolen

Paul Walker auditions for the part of Aquaman as Jared, a beach bum in the Bahamas with dreams of finding sunken treasure. In the course of the overly plotted story that ensues – involving drug dealers, corrupt cops and Jessica Alba as his bikini-baring girlfriend – Jared finds himself forced to cling from the side

I would have enjoyed Man on Fire much more if director Tony Scott wasn’t constantly standing in front of the screen in the theater. OK, so his intrusion isn’t that literal, but the twitching, fidgety filmmaking style he brings to this Denzel Washington kidnapping drama – he plays a bodyguard protecting a little girl (Dakota

Director Zhang Yimou follows up Hero with another martial arts extravaganza set in ancient China. If Hero was an exercise in opulent color, this is a celebration of sound, from the delicate rustle of falling leaves to the reverberating ping of crossed swords. The focus on sound makes sense, considering the main character (Ziyi Zhang

Only director Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers) could make a gruesome spectacle out of things we can’t even see. This takeoff on the invisible-man myth had potential, as Kevin Bacon’s disappearing scientist indulges in the voyeuristic nature of his newfound power, but Verhoeven soon becomes as obsessed with cruel sex and needless violence as

There is a purity to Transporter 2 that even the most action-averse moviegoer should appreciate. A sequel to the similarly streamlined 2002 picture, the movie pares the action-film structure down to its basic elements – it’s a cinematic energy drink. In the driver’s seat once more is Jason Statham as a transporter of illicit –

Could Hollywood ask for a better true story than that of Domino Harvey? The daughter of actor Laurence Harvey, she briefly followed her model mother’s footsteps before becoming a bounty hunter. It’s sex and violence with a real-world kick, tied up in an exploitative cinematic bow by seizure-inducing director Tony Scott (Man on Fire). What’s

Dennis Quaid stars in this pointless and cliched remake of the 1965 adventure film as a pilot who picks up an oil crew in Mongolia and then promptly crashes in the middle of the desert. Only an overacting Giovanni Ribisi, as a mysterious passenger who may not be exactly who he claims, seems to understand