Making an action film with Jason Statham playing author Donald Westlake's iconic badass Parker should have been easy, but slack pacing, and uncomfortable director, and a severely lacking script make this outing unworthy of its namesake.
This week's archival home entertainment column takes a look at some real heavy hitters with Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love, Stanley Kubrick's Fear and Desire, the campy Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, and director's cuts of both Frank Oz's Little Shop of Horrors and the Al Pacino ham-fest The Devil's Advocate.
