The film takes time to gather pace and discover its true direction. Once there, the story takes hold and won’t let go.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The film takes time to gather pace and discover its true direction. Once there, the story takes hold and won’t let go.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Proof that when you combine a great premise and a talented director, you don't necessarily strike gold.

~ Stephen Carty -

Proof that when you combine a great premise and a talented director, you don't necessarily strike gold.

~ Stephen Carty -

Before the movie disintegrates completely - it makes Mad Max look like a classic - you can't help wondering how these Yanks fuel their war machines.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Before the movie disintegrates completely - it makes Mad Max look like a classic - you can't help wondering how these Yanks fuel their war machines.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Entertaining and stylish.

~ Val Kermode -

Entertaining and stylish.

~ Val Kermode -

It will definitely appeal to women rather than men, but it will also touch anyone, male or female, who has had to or is having to face a terminal illness.

~ Caro Ness -

It will definitely appeal to women rather than men, but it will also touch anyone, male or female, who has had to or is having to face a terminal illness.

~ Caro Ness -

As functional as Plane is, it's nuts and bolts, by the numbers, and for much of the time pedestrian.

~ Andrew Robertson -

As functional as Plane is, it's nuts and bolts, by the numbers, and for much of the time pedestrian.

~ Andrew Robertson -

A considerably flawed, yet visually superb, tale of beauty, beast and love.

~ Josh Morrall -

A considerably flawed, yet visually superb, tale of beauty, beast and love.

~ Josh Morrall -

24-carat, high pressure excitement

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

24-carat, high pressure excitement

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Those members of the audience over the age of ten may find themselves a little undiverted

~ Anton Bitel -

Those members of the audience over the age of ten may find themselves a little undiverted

~ Anton Bitel -

What might have been a costume gala, sponsored by the Scottish Tourist Board, is far tougher and more uncompromising.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

What might have been a costume gala, sponsored by the Scottish Tourist Board, is far tougher and more uncompromising.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

It is commendable that Gerard Butler, director Marc Foster and writer Jason Keller have tried to bring the issue of child soldiers to as wide an audience as possible - but though its heart may be in the right place, it never finds a steady rhythm.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It is commendable that Gerard Butler, director Marc Foster and writer Jason Keller have tried to bring the issue of child soldiers to as wide an audience as possible - but though its heart may be in the right place, it never finds a steady rhythm.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

"The plot is bollocks."

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

"The plot is bollocks."

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Lara has changed. No longer a three-dimensional computer game heroine, with enhanced breasts, she has emerged as the next James Bond.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Lara has changed. No longer a three-dimensional computer game heroine, with enhanced breasts, she has emerged as the next James Bond.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Flails about through a series of ostensible set-pieces until it reaches a conclusion that verges on the nonsensical.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Flails about through a series of ostensible set-pieces until it reaches a conclusion that verges on the nonsensical.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Where part two merely faltered, How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World crashes and burns.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Where part two merely faltered, How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World crashes and burns.

~ Jennie Kermode -

There is no tension, no expectation of trouble. Happiness infuses the land

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

There is no tension, no expectation of trouble. Happiness infuses the land

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Fast and funny enough to let even its derivativeness take wing – and, as any seven-year-old can tell you, dragons are cool.

~ Anton Bitel -

Fast and funny enough to let even its derivativeness take wing – and, as any seven-year-old can tell you, dragons are cool.

~ Anton Bitel -

Waugh understands that a blast wave shattering windows on a suburban street is a far more powerful image than yet another shot of the White House exploding.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Waugh understands that a blast wave shattering windows on a suburban street is a far more powerful image than yet another shot of the White House exploding.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The story may lack originality but the visual stylings and action go some way to making up for its shortfall.

~ Daniel Hooper -

The story may lack originality but the visual stylings and action go some way to making up for its shortfall.

~ Daniel Hooper -

Dafoe brings just the right combination of nastiness and charm to his role.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Dafoe brings just the right combination of nastiness and charm to his role.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The direction is by-the-numbers and heavy-handed.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

The direction is by-the-numbers and heavy-handed.

~ Keith Hennessey Brown -

This is power unchained and unfiltered as the two protagonists position themselves for the final shootout like in an urban Western

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

This is power unchained and unfiltered as the two protagonists position themselves for the final shootout like in an urban Western

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The film also looks great, with a rich and varied colour palette and costume array, plus crisp camerawork from Barry Ackroyd combined with nifty editing.

~ Owen Van Spall -

The film also looks great, with a rich and varied colour palette and costume array, plus crisp camerawork from Barry Ackroyd combined with nifty editing.

~ Owen Van Spall -

There's some good old fashioned film-making here.

~ Andrew Robertson -

There's some good old fashioned film-making here.

~ Andrew Robertson -

It feels like a two-hour descent into Mordor that makes Gladiator look gay.

~ Chris -

It feels like a two-hour descent into Mordor that makes Gladiator look gay.

~ Chris -