Terminator Salvation (2009)

Unwisely, the Terminator series takes us for the first time to a time after the apocalyptic Judgement Day (until now, just an occasionally glimpsed bleak potential future our heroes have been working hard to avoid) and suddenly we are learning more than we ever cared to know about John Connor's dreary war against the machines - it is more Transformers with Mad Max stylings than Terminator - and muddying the Terminator formula even more than this is a lead Wolverine character whose uninteresting journey into the future delays the movie we actually wanted to watch which starts twenty minutes before the end.

★★☆☆☆

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Paper Planes (2014)

A school kid growing up with only one struggling parent takes up a sport, is good at it, enters a competition that takes him to Tokyo, and pulls out a bird-inspired move to win the title, but this is not Daniel LaRusso, karate and the Crane Kick in The Karate Kid, but Dylan, paper-plane throwing, and the "Whistling Kite", in a feelgood Australian kids movie.

★★★☆☆

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