Jean Reno

No one in the film comes across as a flesh-and-blood character...Birth is overdressed with nowhere to go.

Martin's innate verbal panache is the only asset that shows any reliability here.

Too measured to be lively, too skittish to be provocative, too dramatically slack to be more than a ploddingly literal book-on-film.

Flyboys' spectacular predictability confirms its shallowness.

A spy version of Pygmalion, complete with perverse romance, Nikita was well ahead of the curve when it came to women warriors as modern shoot-'em-up stars.

To put it simply, The Last Journey has enjoyable trappings but doesn't amount to much.