I’m not too familiar with the other entries in the series (as this is the first “Lethal Weapon” film I’ve seen) but just comparing it to other buddy cop/action flicks of the period “Lethal Weapon 3” seems to be lacking.

Old police officer Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover “Lethal Weapon”, “Saw”) and his partner, the reckless Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson “Signs”, “Hamlet”), are back and this time they’re trying to tackle a criminal who is ex-police named Jack Travis (Stuart Wilson “Enemy of the State”). Can Riggs keep Murtaugh intact for retirement in the next few days? Will Murtaugh even bother to retire? (He hasn’t on the previous occasions he’s tried to).

Mel Gibson gives an enjoyable performance as Martin Riggs but the character seems a little too over the top at times as for example in the beginning of the film he decides to not wait for help and tries to disarm a bomb resulting in the building being blown sky high. It is amusing when he eats dog biscuits. Danny Glover does a good job Roger Murtaugh but why hasn’t he retried already? He moans that he’s too old for this and he limps around like he needs a stick for support. The chemistry between the two is merely average in this outing. Joe Pesci (“Home Alone”, “Goodfellas”) returns as the annoying salesman Leo Getz and is boring beyond belief. The villain lacks charisma. Rene Russo (“Outbreak”) is good doing some martial arts as Lorna Cole.

“Lethal Weapon 3” features a few really good action sequences and I like that at times the characters actually use their brains but for the most part the movie is just a bit boring. It just makes you wish Murtaugh would retire already because you feel bad when he risks his life and I truly feel a doctor should recommend he goes immediately before he gets seriously hurt.

I’ve seen all the other “Lethal Weapon” films and while this one isn’t the worst (that has to be “Lethal Weapon 3”) this second outing disappointed me. It lacks the intensity and creativity of the original and becomes nothing more than a rehash. It’s one of those films where everything is something we’ve seen before and it was better before.

In “Lethal Weapon 2”, police officers Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson “Mad Max”, “Mad Max 2”) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover “Predator 2”, “Be Kind Rewind”) discover a group of South African diplomats are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities and because of this the duo become targets as they evade bombs planted on toilets and a devastating helicopter attack so now it’s payback time.

Mel Gibson plays the crazy one but here I just didn’t get that feeling he has in the other films. Danny Glover is good as always as Roger Murtaugh. The two work reasonably well in this one. The villains are decent but I’ve seen other bad guys with power beyond the law. Joe Pesci (“Goodfellas”, “Home Alone”) is irritating and we unfortunately get roughly 10 minutes of screen time with this guy. The other characters are relatively weak.

In “Lethal Weapon 2” Gibson and Glover basically repeat what they did in the first film but here it isn’t done with the same kind of conviction. I thought the death involving a surfboard was creative but everything else felt very clichéd. It’s not as boring as the third movie but it lacks the sophistication of the first and fourth pictures; like the third film the witty script is missing from this one. If you’re a massive fan of the series maybe you’ll enjoy this one but otherwise it’ll do you no harm but it won’t do you any real favours either.

I hated the original “Blair Witch Project”. I hated the awful found-footage style, the bad acting and the film was more tedious and annoying than it was scary. Somehow “Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2” is even worse. This one is not a found-footage movie but the acting still stinks and it’s definitely tedious and annoying.

The popularity of the “Blair Witch Project” movie has prompted film fans and those interested in the occult to start visiting the small American town of Burkittsville where the picture was set. A tour group head into the woods and when strange things start happening, they question whether or not the stories were real. They must piece together exactly what has been happening if they ever hope to leave the forest.

The main characters in this movie are absolutely dreadful. None of them are remotely engaging and they are somehow even more boring than the characters in the first film. The worst character easily has to be the Wiccan witch (Erica Leerhsen “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”), who spends the entire film whining about how people profit from misconceptions about her cult/faith. The minor characters are all like caricatures; it’s just so embarrassing. The least terrible character in the whole movie is probably the goth girl (Kim Director “Inside Man”).

This is a stupid movie where nothing makes any sense and it’s also just so badly executed. Also, there is no “Book Of Shadows” in the movie so the title is as meaningless as everything else in here. Most fans of the original despise this one and while I still hate the first one, it at least had some vaguely coherent ideas. This is one of the worst sequels ever made because not only is it a completely terrible movie anyway, it has almost no real connection to the original movie.

“Find Me Guilty” is a courtroom drama about the longest trial in the history of the United States. The movie interestingly stars Vin Diesel (“xXx”, “The Fast and the Furious”), an actor mainly known for brainless action movies. This is not a bad movie and it has its moments but it’s not as entertaining as I hoped it would be.

Jack DiNorscio (Diesel) is a gangster that decides to defend himself when he and his gang are put on trial. His unorthodox methods initially appear to make a mockery of the court as he dishes out one-liners but his ability to speak from the heart appears to resonate with jurors and may have a significant impact on the outcome of what became the longest criminal trial in American judicial history.

Diesel is not a great actor and he really does not do all that well in this role. Here, he plays a guy with a big mouth rather than big muscles. Maybe he should just stick to action movies. The parts where he tells jokes or makes stupid comments are sometimes funny. I was hoping this was going to be a bit like “Jury Duty” with Pauly Shore (but actually amusing). However, as the movie progresses, DiNorscio is forced to be more serious. Linus Roache (“Batman Begins”) is good as the prosecutor, a man determined to see as many dangerous thugs put behind bars as possible. The other mobsters are not very interesting.

“Find Me Guilty” has some parts that are really funny and engaging but the actual story is not as interesting as I hoped it would be. I thought DiNorscio’s behaviour was going to affect the length of the trial but it doesn’t. There seems to be no real point to the movie and no real reason to focus on the DiNorscio character as he does not necessarily influence the outcome of the trial as clearly as you may think. It also failed to convince me that Vin Diesel has any real acting skills.

“Grimsby” (also known as “The Brothers Grimsby”) is another shocking comedy from the sick and twisted mind of Sacha Baron Cohen (“The Dictator”, “Brüno”). This was an odd watch for me because Grimsby is actually my hometown. This movie was not actually filmed in Grimsby as the locals knew Baron Cohen would not be glamorising the town.

Nobby (Baron Cohen) is a drunk and unemployable idiot that obsesses about football. He lives in the fishing port of Grimsby and dreams of being reunited with his younger brother, Sebastian (Mark Strong “Shazam!”, “Zero Dark Thirty”). The two were separated as kids when Sebastian was adopted, now he’s a secret agent trying to thwart a plot that threatens the globe. Nobby manages to find Sebastian and the two must somehow work together to save the day.

The Nobby character is clearly meant to look like Oasis’ Liam Gallagher. The character is not especially funny and I was particularly horrified at the multiple occasions where he sticks a firework up his backside. Mark Strong’s character is not particularly funny either. The two of them have no real chemistry and there is a horrendous moment where Nobby is forced to extract a poison from the privates of Sebastian. Some fairly big names including Isla Fisher (“Wedding Crashers”) and Ian McShane (“John Wick”) appear. Scott Adkins (“Ninja”) gets to show off a few impressive moves during a fight scene. Johnny Vegas (“Early Man”) and a few other faces that will only be recognised by British audiences also appear.

Parts of this movie are genuinely really funny but as the movie goes along, it becomes more and more depraved. A woman gets smashed in the face by a child using a snooker ball inside a condom, two men hide inside a female elephant and get sprayed with a substance from male elephants and celebrities get infected with H.I.V. from blood spurting out of a half-Jewish/half-Palestinian child peace activist. It’s got its moments but it also has too many horrible sights.

The third entry in the “Green Street” franchise is surprisingly the best one so far. None of the cast or characters return so this could have easily just been its own film, independent of the “Green Street” brand.

Danny (Scott Adkins “Accident Man”, “Triple Threat”) returns home to London after his brother is murdered during hooligan violence. Danny is determined to find his brother’s killer and will return to the West Ham football firm that he abandoned years earlier. The fighting is now more organised and more dangerous than ever before as West Ham’s boys battle to reclaim their glory days by challenging Millwall’s dominance.

Scott Adkins is really good here. He’s generally more of a martial arts guy but he’s adapted his fighting to be much more like a brawler for this film and it works very well. Also, he’s got more personality and more acting skills than most action stars. Kacey Clarke (“Resident Evil: Afterlife”) is okay as Danny’s girlfriend. The other West Ham firm members are not particularly exciting. The main bad guy is the leader of the Millwall firm (Spencer Wilding “Victor Frankenstein”). He’s a very big guy and he’s as mean as you can get.

The first “Green Street” had the unnecessary inclusion of an American protagonist and the second one was unconvincingly set in a British prison as it was blatantly filmed in an American one. The third film is in my opinion, the best of the three. The fight scenes are entertaining, the plot is moderately enjoyable for this type of movie, the performance from Adkins is surprisingly good and it was just a more interesting movie than the previous entries. It’s not fantastic by any means and it’s not as good as some other hooligan films (such as “The Football Factory”).

“Bad Ass” is a fairly comedic action flick starring Danny Trejo (“Machete”, “Desperado”). The film is loosely based on a viral video of an altercation between two men on a bus. I think this might be the first movie based on a viral video. It’s actually much better than I thought it would be. However, it never goes all the way like “Machete”.

In “Bad Ass”, Frank Vega (Trejo) is a Vietnam veteran that becomes a local celebrity when he is filmed fighting off some thugs on a bus. When his best friend (Harrison Page “A.W.O.L.: Absent Without Leave”) is killed, Frank will stop at nothing to find the men responsible.

It is satisfying watching an elderly Danny Trejo go around and pound his way through a collection of criminals. He gives a decent performance but the tone of the movie is a little bit confusing. Are we meant to genuinely empathise with Frank or are we just meant to laugh at the absurdity of watching a guy this old beat up so many people? Another character in the movie I really liked was Martin (John Duffy), a young kid that swears like Eddie Murphy. Other characters are okay but I thought Ron Perlman (“Alien: Resurrection”) was weak as the villain.

“Bad Ass” is like a spoof of the “Death Wish” franchise and half the Steven Seagal films from the 2000s. It’s got some entertaining moments but there’s nothing particularly memorable on offer here. The climactic chase sequence involving two buses actually uses lots of footage from the bus chase in “Red Heat” with Arnold Schwarzenegger. I liked “Machete” quite a bit more than “Bad Ass” because that movie was outrageous at times. If you are big fan of Danny Trejo and action films with a comedic slant then maybe check this one out.

“Kung Fu Yoga” is a disastrously bad Chinese/Indian movie starring Jackie Chan (“Rush Hour”, “Armour Of God”). The film was directed by Stanley Tong (“Mr. Magoo”) has directed some of the best Jackie Chan movies including “Rumble In The Bronx” and “First Strike” but this is just awful. “Kung Fu Yoga” also serves as a sequel to “The Myth”, which Chan and Tong also made together.

Archaeologist Jack (Chan) is on an adventure that will take him from Tibet to Dubai to India as he seeks ancient treasure that links together the nations of China and India. He finds himself up against a powerful adversary (Sonu Sood “Dookudu”), who is after the treasure for himself.

Jackie Chan really shows his age here. He does very little during the fight scenes and it’s a real shame. He’s given terrible dialog and he’s surround by way too many other characters. The bad guy is pretty unremarkable. I didn’t care about any of the other characters whether they were the Chinese ones or the Indian ones. Throughout the movie, there are also various animals including a lion and a snake. They look so synthetic. A younger Jackie Chan worked with real snakes and lions so it’s a big disappointment to see him resort to using special effects.

The fight scenes are lame, the dialog is cringeworthy, the Bollywood-style song and dance at the end is horrendous, the special effects are ugly and the whole movie just feels like a shameless attempt to attract Indian audiences. Chan was already a superstar in India (and across the entire world), he doesn’t need to pander to a specific crowd to attract an audience. The whole movie is unimpressive from the opening scenes to the time the credits roll. “Kung Fu Yoga” is easily one of the worst Jackie Chan movies. Go and watch “Chinese Zodiac”, “Armour Of God” or even “The Myth” if you want a better adventure film with Chan.

More exciting “Dragon Ball” action with “Super Android 13”. This is one of the shortest films in the entire franchise so it’s over before you know it. Fans of the series do not seem to talk about this one all that much (either positively or negatively) and I can understand why. It’s not the best one by any means but it isn’t bad at all.

Goku and his friends are enjoying a day out in a big city when three villainous androids attack. Goku, Vegeta, Trunks and the rest of the fighters must protect the innocent people of Earth as they battle against the unstoppable cyborg killers.

Some of the early scenes with Goku, Chi-Chi and Gohan shopping are quite amusing. It’s nice to see Vegeta and Trunks join in on the action but I wish Gohan and Piccolo got more to do. Some of the comedic parts with Roshi and Oolong are okay. The villains are not among the best from the franchise but I still liked them. Androids 14 and 15 are not the most memorable but when Android 13 uses their parts to transform into Super Android 13, he looks pretty darn great. He certainly puts up a real fight and seriously pushes the team of heroes.

“Super Android 13” is a fun addition to the franchise with a spectacular final battle with Goku having to go Super Saiyan to take on Super Android 13. Like with a lot of the “Dragon Ball” films, I’m not really convinced that this is the best place to start for people that are not particularly familiar with the anime series. Still, I think fans of the show will enjoy this one. Just don’t go into it expecting it to be as good as some of the others. It’s certainly better than “Tree Of Might” and “Bio-Broly” though.

The first “Green Street” was all about the violent subculture of football firm hooliganism. This movie moves the violence to a prison. Only a supporting actor (Ross McCall) returns from the original movie so don’t expect this to be much of a sequel. As a film by itself, it’s not as bad as I feared it would be.

After the brawl between West Ham and Millwall football firm members, the two groups of convicted men now find themselves in the same prison. They cannot leave their rivalry in the past as they seek to violently confront each other. The warden (Vernon Wells “Commando”) decides to hold a football match to decide which group will be released early.

I didn’t even remember Ross McCall from the original so I didn’t care about his character and his performance is bad anyway. Graham McTavish (“Rambo”) is decent as the main Millwall thug. He is pretty believable as a violent criminal. Marina Sirtis (“Star Trek: First Contact”, “Crash”) steals the show as a corrupt prison guard. Vernon Wells is mediocre as the warden. The rest of the characters are quite forgettable. Most of the men brutally beat each other throughout the movie. They not only punch, kick and headbutt each other but they also weaponise weights and bleach.

Some of the fight sequences are suitably savage but the movie is still not that entertaining. One big problem is that the film is meant to be set in a British prison yet it was clearly filmed at an American one. In some scenes, the inmates have orange jumpsuits just like in U.S. prison. It just makes it very hard to get immersed in what is going on when it’s so blatantly inaccurate. The main characters are also really dull and the idea of the warden releasing people based on a football match is pretty dumb.