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PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING (M) There is a lot missing from this drab, lethargic sequel to the 2013, rock-’em-sock-’em robotsversus-monsters hit Pacific Rim. The most telling absence is director Guillermo del Toro, last seen winning multiple Oscars for The Shape of Water. The loss of two quality leading men in Idris Elba and Charlie Hunnam isn’t helping either. The one marquee name in play here is current Star Wars team member John Boyega, who pushes hard to get this big fat boulder of apocalyptic bombast moving. Sadly, it is a waste of energy on his part, and a waste of time on ours. The plot fastforwards the calamitous CGI clashes of the Jaegers (big robots) and the Kaiju (big monsters) a decade down the line from the original, where Tokyo will host the obligatory third-act trashing and trampling. While we wait for that (admittedly awesome) spectacle to arrive, our conflicted young hero Jake Pentecost (Boyega) helps train some cadets in the dual mystic arts of Jaeger wrangling and Kaiju mangling. Rating: DEATH WISH (R18+) They killed his wife, and now they’re gonna pay. They also left his daughter in a coma, so now everyone is really gonna pay. Who did what — and who must make reparations to he who is aggrieved — is of little consequence to Death Wish. This is supposed to be a remake of the 1974 revenge thriller starring Charles Bronson, a brutal affair that spawned a further four, increasingly awful instalments in the decade that followed. However, all this update can do is sullenly recapture the grim mood of the original movie, albeit only for a few minutes at a time. Rating: MARY MAGDALENE (M) FOR reasons too political, theological and just plain mean to go into here, a Jewish woman known as Mary of Magdala has had her good name cop a bad rap in the history books for more than 2000 years. It must be said Mary Magdalene does a fine job of clarifying Mary’s motives as she moved through the inner circle of Jesus Christ. What a shame it is also a religious drama so dour and dreary that you may start wondering if there is a God. Rating: