Another Taiwanese singer has made his movie debut: Jam Hsiao (蕭敬騰). The popular entertainer stars as a sympathetic contract killer who saves lives, but fails short of saving his first feature film “The Killer Who Never Kills” (殺手歐陽盆栽).

Let Tony Stark make the wisecracks and Nick Fury give the intimidating commands.

With this title and lead actor Donnie Yen (甄子丹), there was no doubt that “Wu Xia” (武俠) would be a quality action film. However, it is obvious that Cantonese director Peter Chan (陳可辛) has never limited his directorial projects to an action film.

After a decade following the adventures of our favorite boy wizard, those anticipating the epic showdown between Voldemort and Harry Potter will not be disappointed.

All the technical promise of decades of “aliens invade” thrillers, from “Independence Day” (ID4：星際終結者) through “Battle: Lost Angeles” (世界異戰), and the best comic character actors money can buy serve “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” well.

At two hours and 16 minutes, “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” — the fourth film in the ridiculously successful Disney franchise — is the shortest in the series. But it still feels overlong and overstuffed; needlessly convoluted yet, at the same time, phoned-in.

If the “Fast Five” filmmakers had thrown in giant, shape-shifting robots, talking apes and some vampires, the fifth installment in “The Fast and the Furious” franchise would hardly have been more outlandish.

On the heels of his breakout hits “300” (300壯士：斯巴達的逆襲) and “Watchmen,” (守護者) director Zack Snyder's “Sucker Punch” is not just a 17-year-old boy's fantasy.

The gladiatorial thumbs-up or thumbs-down is a key plot point in the ancient Roman adventure “The Eagle.”

With his thick build and narrow stare, Matt Damon has proven effective and often surprisingly affecting as killing machines (“The Bourne trilogy”), athletes (“Invictus”) and even blowhards (“The Informant!”, “True Grit”) — men who stand apart from everyone around them.