espionage

• Avengers, The directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik (1998)

  [3/10]

  "The story line limps along and no amount of explosions or fight scenes can save us from the compounding ennui."

• Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle directed by McG (2003)

  [4/10]

  "It doesn't really matter to what assignment Charlie sends the angles since the film follows the path of greatest skin exposure, highest number of explosions, and maximum stern looks from Lucy Liu."

• Mission: Impossible directed by Brian De Palma (1996)

  [6/10]

  "I can understand killing off one or two of the team members to provide a revenge motivation for the rest of the team, but killing off the entire team, including Phelps, departs so radically from the traditions of the TV series, that only the first twenty minutes really deserve the name Mission: Impossible."

  Average score: 4.33