60-second cinema

6 out of 10 While it’s hard to say anything bad about this film — I did enjoy it — I can’t sing its praises either. Certainly, a number of the characters were developed further, but in some cases, it felt like a watering-down. A slew of new characters were also introduced, but often only as poorly managed plot devices. I’m probably being blind to the previous outings’ failings, but this one just didn’t work for me. If there is to be a sequel (don’t let the subtitle fool you), it’ll need a really good story to resurrect the series properly.

7 out of 10 Pretty much a by-the-numbers spy romp – silly but entertaining. In other words, exactly what I’d expected and hoped for. Tom Cruise might be a bit of a dick in real life, but he does these films very well.

4 out of 10 Ant & Dec in a film. Hmmm. They still can’t act beyond 30-second parodies on ITV reality shows and their selling points were wasted on this. Throughout, this was pretty poor, but towards the end, I started to find the story quite interesting, hence the near-respectable rating. Just a shame it was lost in a crap film.

7 out of 10 John Cusack’s one of my favourite actors, but while this was entertaining enough, it didn’t stand out to the degree I’d been led to expect. Maybe that’s just because I wasn’t really expecting a rom-com. I’d simply heard the film was good, so I figured I’d watch it. Pity it ended rather weakly with the traditional happy ending, but it was still good for popcorn.

8 out of 10 I really like both of the Bourne movies. They’re like James Bond, but without the corn and cheese. And with amnesia. ‘Supremacy’ follows a remarkably similar path to the first film, but that doesn’t detract from it. Matt Damon suits the role really well too. I hope a third one’s in the making, but it’ll need to develop the character a bit more. You can’t write assassin-recovering-from-amnesia stories forever.

4 out of 10 Making the most of Grant’s extensive DVD collection, tonight it was the turn of Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s sports-based buddy comedy thing. A similar type of humour to last night’s Anchorman, but it didn’t come close to the number of laughs. All a bit lame, really. And to think these guys gave us the excellent South Park movie. :-/

7 out of 10 Fairly enjoyable in a kind of tongue-in-cheek way, with plenty of one-liners you’ll be able to tire your mates with for weeks. Now I know where Grant gets half of the nonsense he comes out with. ;) Good doses of political incorrectness and plain stupidity added to the mix nicely. Even looks like half of it was ad-libbed, judging by the out-takes in the credits sequence.