1.   Fast-paced action adventure with you at the centre of some staggering cinematic effects.

2.   And prepackaged action adventures often command top bids.

3.   But studios and independent companies have failed to meet their needs, producing instead an avalanche of intelligence-insulting comedies and action adventures.

4.   But The Man in the Iron Mask is not an action adventure filled with stirring battle scenes, like Brave heart.

5.   But the movie works better as an action adventure.

6.   Even though the film is marketed as a high-tech action adventure, it is an extremely violent thriller.

7.   Once again, Russo is required to portray a self-reliant woman in an action adventure.

8.   Set in the far future after the polar ice caps have melted and flooded all known land, the sci-fi action adventure stars Costner as the mutant Mariner.

9.   The film does score some points as an action adventure, and the sequence where the Vietnamese storm the plantation is reasonably well handled.

10.   The plot meanders from comedy to action adventure and could lose all but devoted Pauly Shore fans along the way.