Mysterious Island (2005)

Mysterious Island (2005)
Rating:
Oct 9, 2008Desert Island Survival/Giant Animals
Hallmark tv mini-series adaptation of Jules Verne's desert island drama featuring no less than Patrick Stewart as Captain Nemo. This sinks badly amid incredibly shoddy giant animal digital effects

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
Rating: ★★
Jun 21, 2006Comic-Book Superheroes
Brett Ratner inherits the X-Men franchise from Bryan Singer for the third film in the series and promptly killed it off (after this point everything became prequels featuring Young X-Men). Ratner's handling of the superheroic action lacks Singer's exhilaration or any affinity for the characters

Tooth and Nail (2007)

Tooth and Nail (2007)
Rating: ★★½
Apr 8, 2015Post-Holocaust Survival
Modest post-holocaust film that tries to do something different to the usual action derbies of Mad Max 2 et al, focusing on the survival efforts of a group of young people. It doesn't entirely find them before throwing in standard wasteland crazies but the journey there is interesting

The Midnight Meat Train (2008)

The Midnight Meat Train (2008)
Rating: ★★★★
May 1, 2010Ritual Killer on the Subway/Clive Barker Adaptation
One of the best Clive Barker adaptations. Japan's Ryuhei Kitamura brings a masterful assurance with the horror elements and does gore in astonishingly new and unrealised ways

Cross (2011)

Cross (2011)
Rating: ★★
Jan 22, 2014Action Film/Mystical Artifacts
A copy of The Expendables (albeit with the addition of fantasy elements) that brings together a line-up of B-action movie actors as a team. While some of the actors shine, the feel is of a cheaper effort earnestly trying to copy its betters