About Time (2013)

Dull and lazy. The time-travel feels like a gimmick tacked on to an otherwise rote Richard Curtis twee hyper-English romance - it barely makes any difference to the story and doesn't even make sense (and I'm not talking about 'time travel is impossible' stuff here, just basic logic), and is pretty much used for that one Groundhog Day set-up of 'guy makes a silly mistake, cut to him doing the same thing again but without making the mistake' over and over again. I left before the end.

Just watch Groundhog Day again instead.
Rating: Bad

Pain and Gain (2013)

This film had its moments, but it's what you'd expect from giving an Elmore Leonard type script to the guy who did Transformers - hugely over-long with no subtlety and a shitload of gay panic, racism, man feeling up a dead woman's fake tits etc. Marky Mark is pretty bad as usual, playing his usual "angry moron", but Tony Shalhoub and The Rock are excellent (it's becoming strangely common for The Rock to be the best thing in a film).
Rating: Bad

Riddick (2013)

Similar set-up as Pitch Black - Riddick and a load of bounty hunters trapped on a planet with a horde of alien beasts - except it takes most of the movie to get to that point. Katee Sackhoff is a Vasquez-type pretty much there to get leered over and either punch the leerer in the face or turn straight for him if he's a murderous convict who spies on her taking showers. She also gets one boob out for one shot, which is bizarre.

I didn't think Pitch Black was anything special really, and actually enjoyed Chronicles more as at least it was interesting (although not exactly good). It's a shame they reverted back to the PB model for this film and largely jettisoned the Necromongers/Underverse stuff. I know they had a smaller budget for this film, but they still could have carried on with that plot in a less epic way. This just feels like an uninventive, unmemorable straight-to-DVD movie.
Rating: Bad