Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters 3D (2013)

Witches can be fun (see the 1990 Roald Dahl's The Witches) but in this 2013 offering, just one of a spate of recent ultraviolent fairytales too adult for kids and too childish for adults (Jack the Giant Slayer, Snow White and the Huntsman, etc), everything is second to the 3D effects including the witches, a hohum bunch about as engaging as a parade of goth enthusiasts outside your window.

★☆☆☆☆

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The Bourne Legacy (2012)

Not as sharp as previous Bourne instalments, this one is minus Jason Bourne and has Aaron Cross instead, a drug-addicted government super agent who partners with a government scientist to stay alive as mostly caucasian government traceurs hunt them because, well, they want them dead, is about the extent of it.

★★★☆☆

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