Jason Statham tries hard to stay upbeat with his adrenaline rushing avatar. But somewhere in the middle he gets trapped in bad script and forced action.

With this film, there was a chance to tell the story of a town that changes when it manages to capture a dragon, but the film doesn’t have its heart set on it.

While Bekmambetov couldn’t be faulted for trying to keep a distance from the 1959 version — and who wouldn’t, given its monstrous 11 Oscars — where Ben-Hur ultimately fails is in how far it seeks to travel. Its ending even further dilutes whatever little impact its sympathetic viewing of Biblical characters may have generated, showing it up for half-hearted at best.

Jared Leto’s Joker tries as does Margot Robbie who brings up the rear, literally, of Suicide Squad but Will Smith-led Suicide Squad is unmanageable.

Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne is back again in Donald Trump-era war against terror. It is not as much about how many lives saved, as leaving them dead.

The BFG is a winsome tale from Roald Dahl, a writer who hardly went in for easy, simple pleasures. Steven Spielberg is a director whose heart lies in such delights. The movie is true to Dahl’s story and Spielberg’s spirit.

Sandberg, who extended his own impressive short by the same name into this extended film, should have let this one rest. Can’t always have the lights on.

The film doesn’t bother explaining why the universe across planets may be after it. Not that anyone is asking that question, for Star Trek Beyond is much too busy pitting Kirk and company against Krall (Elba) and his lot.

More than ever, Ice Age is intent on finding love for each of its characters, who go about expressing it in a manner that is absolutely human-like.

The film ends up being about two hostile animals in mortal peril till they literally come out swimming.