You don't need to have a grudging affection for Vin Diesel to appreciate this dunderheaded comic-book adventure - although, obviously, it helps. His mission, this time around, is to escort a holy virgin across post-apocalyptic Russia and into the heart of New York, battling cyberpunk goons along the way. What an endearingly shambolic action hero Diesel is. He mumbles his lines as though he's leafing through the script at the read-through, and sports an air of perplexed annoyance that suggests he thought he'd signed up for a different movie altogether. All told, he comes out of this a lot better than director Mathieu Kassovitz - tipped as the new Godard in the wake of La Haine yet now apparently plying his trade as a Luc Besson impersonator.

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