The Great Wall: For the eyes, not the heart

Talking of stale ideas, even the all-important plan of attacking the monster queen isn’t novel, and was most recently employed in the horrible Independence Day: Resurgence. As inspirations go, you couldn’t do worse.

Bogan: Arvind Swamy in full form in an all-right potboiler

Arvind Swamy really plays to the gallery with his portrayal, and seems to revel in the character’s hedonism. He brings a sophisticated charisma to the role that Tamil villains have long lacked, a certain swag that some heroes would die for.

The Crew: A turbulent journey

You know how they say that every writer plays god with his characters? Director Nikolay Lebedev, in The Crew, seems to have played a particularly merciless version.

Passengers: An unsatisfying Castaway in space

I kept wishing Passengers were a book. It’s a grand premise, a scope so expansive that necessitates the complexity of detail that can only be found in the descriptive pages of a novel.