The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption (2012)

To downplay the fact The Rock had abandoned this series after its first instalment, a Dwayne Johnson lookalike plays Mathayus, this time sent on a quest about as cinematic as an episode of TVs Xena: Warrior Princess and about as well-acted as a World Wide Wrestling Federation championship, with Billy Zane appearing as the villian Talus to clinch the film's utter mediocrity.

★☆☆☆☆

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Alien Resurrection (1997)

This time, in an Alien instalment too clever by half, Ripley is resurrected in director Jean-Paul Jeunet's "Delicatessen", a futuristic green-yellow world of zany characters and irreverent detail, but in fact, Ripley isn't Ripley at all but a Ripley-alien clone and empath who once again takes charge of a group of mercenaries when aliens - distinctly Jurassic Park raptor-like ones - break free from their Umbrella Corporation science experiment chambers and start - you guessed it - picking off everyone on board the Earth-bound spaceship Auriga (including elfin robot, Winona Ryder) one-by-especially-bloody-one.

★★★☆☆

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