Escape Plan (2013)

Very poor. Terrible dialogue (in a bad way - the banter either falls flat or just doesn't make sense), wooden acting (and I do think better performances could have been teased from the two leads by a better director), nonsensical plot, a mass of cliches. It both wastes a load of great character actors (which makes me wonder whether the script was good at one point then got gutted after they signed up) - Neill, Caviezel, D'Onofrio, Amy Ryan - and also has fucking Vinnie Jones and fucking 50 Cent in it (both giving adequate performances as thugs, one a baddy thug and one a goody thug).

Basically, the 20 minute prison escape segment from Face/Off, but done badly and looped a few times.
Rating: Awful

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013)

One third very funny, one third surprisingly sweet, and one third uncomfortable to watch in a bad way.
Rating: Good

Captain Phillips (2013)

Very tense, well-made, well-acted. Only suffers from not being able to have much structure due to being based on true events, but still recommended.
Rating: Good

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)

Disappointing sequel to a brilliant film. There's scope for a fun take on lost world movies, but it gets bogged down with pointless returning characters and bland new ones, plus some tacked-on character reset/progression that makes Flint pretty passive and annoying. The 3D was also pretty much non-existent.

The two original director-writers only did story on this so perhaps that explains it...
Rating: Bad

Filth (2013)

A great lead performance, but no drive or depth. Essentially just a series of scenes of a nasty, fucked-up guy being nasty and fucked-up. A sledgehammer of a film.
Rating: Fine

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