Justice - Never mess with a high school English teacher  

Nicholas Cage plays just your average high school English teacher, whose wife unfortunately gets attacked one night. He, in turn, enlists the help of a shady organisation (managed by the sinister Guy Pearce) who kill the attacker in exchange for a favour from our everyman Nick at a later date.

Skip forward a few weeks and these dodgy dealers only want poor old Nick to kill someone else then, when he doesn't, they go and frame him for murder!

It's about then that Nick decides that he's had enough of teaching grammar and vowels and fights back. Luckily, marking essays has stood him in good stead to take on not only the evil, twisted gang, but also the police and even the odd turncoat friend.

Nick is therefore forced to use everything he's learned from his teacher-training school to run and hide from baddies, fight and even gun them down when necessary, evade capture by the police during high-speed chases, unravel deep conspiracies, investigate deaths and even have time to rescue loved ones.

It's a bit like the Bourne films. Nick runs, gets cornered, escapes, repeat. It's nothing new, but it's not as bad as it could have been. Nick Cage gives his usual performance (and there's still plenty of his fans out there to enjoy it) and Guy Pearce makes a decent enough baddie (hardly stretching his proven acting talents though).

If you like a bit of action/thriller, this one's about as average as they come, but you might just enjoy it.

My English teacher tripped over my school bag when he walked past my desk. He never once foiled a national conspiracy or got caught up in a shoot-out in a disused shopping mall. I guess I went to the wrong school.

6/10 May just keep you awake if Freddy Kruger was haunting your nights