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 .
