I'm being generous here not paying out on this travesty more, as only the first film was even watchable. Bearing all the hallmarks of many Stallone written or produced movies, mainly and atrocious script. Leaden and obvious in every way.

Everything its unasked for predecessor wasn't. Continually laugh-out-loud funny, very self aware, witty, far less anemic and one of the best straight comedies of the decade. Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum shine far brighter the second time around and Ice Cube is the perfect angry foil.

Dare I say this critically trashed box office poison is my favorite Arnie starring film since Terminator 2. For fans of both the grimiest, most violent Southern-pot-boiler/corrupt cop films, this should be pure cat-nip. The film is brutal and has a remarkably unsentimental and unlikable cast, topped by a horrifying turn from Mireille Enos. The Agatha Christie style story is way above what this kind of fare usually offers and it has no problems getting its hands very dirty. The Training Day alumni of (here director) David Ayers and Antoine Fuqua continue to fascinate me even in failure. A should be cult classic.

Director David Mackenzie may have floundered slightly with his last film, the seemingly little seen Outlaw King, but he sure followed up on the promise of this superb British prison drama with Hell or High Water. The excellent firebrand actor Jack O'Connell has yet to crossover like less talented UK peers (looking at you Tom Holland) but is on fire here and backed by the always welcome Ben Mendlesohn.

Out of a superb, uncommonly thoughtful and intelligent Sci-Fi trilogy, arguably the least great entry. Smaller in scope than the opening and closing films but still with a lot to recommend, especially the king-of-CGI, Andy Serkis, again shining as Caesar.