The Legend of Zorro

THE LEGEND OF ZORRO

Directed by Martin Campbell. Starring Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rufus Sewell, Adrian Alonso PG cert

Amazingly, it took four credited screenwriters to concoct the contrived and implausible narrative of this lazy sequel set in 1850, as California is about to become the 31st state of the union. The agile stuntmen and Zorro's temperamental, pipe-smoking horse come off best. Michael Dwyer

GOAL!

Directed by Danny Cannon. Starring Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola, Marcel Iures, Stephen Dillane, Sean Pertwee, Anna Friel, Tony Plana, Gary Lewis PG cert

The first film in a proposed trilogy about the beautiful game follows a young Mexican's adventures playing for Newcastle United. The actors all acquit themselves admirably and the football sequences are passable. But Danny Cannon, despite utilising any number of helicopter shots, singularly fails to make the British north-east look anything other than grim. Donald Clarke

REVOLVER

Directed by Guy Ritchie. Starring Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, André Benjamin, Vincent Pastore, Mark Strong, Francesca Annis 16 cert

Jason Statham stars as a conman who gets on the wrong side of an evil crime kingpin, played, with no concessions to restraint, by Ray Liotta. Ritchie’s metaphysical (I guess) thriller, already a near-legendary fiasco, comes complete with a commentary from the director. Will he explain himself or will he just spend his time pleading for our forgive-ness? Donald Clarke