There are scenes of one-on-one dialogue filmed as if the cameraman had just polished off his twentieth coffee of the day

Panting for breath after every move and fire, it was only the threat of being shot in the nuts that kept me moving

The prize for the weirdest working title on a fanatasy movie, though, must surely go to The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian, whose makers nicknamed the film Toastie, after their favourite lunchtime snack.

Battle: LA instead presents a tidal wave of shrieking action, and in the place of a three-act story, the movie is split up into videogame-like levels

They are working on another sequel, believe it or not. Universal Soldier 4. I have died three times already. Come on! Come on, guys. I can't come back again!

The plot of The Tourist is, to put it kindly, an afterthought, an awkward necessity which is just there as a way to bring two of the most bankable stars of the modern era together at last.

The point of repeating these stories for writers is not, as is often assumed, laziness.