7 Best And 7 Worst Releases On Netflix In May

14. Worst - Momentum

If you paid for a year's Netflix subscription up front, you'd be almost doubling the amount of money this film took in its opening weekend in the UK. Momentum raked in just £50. That might be decent for a South African action movie, but the rest of the world calls that a flop.

Although Olga Kurylenko plays a well-worn character (a mysterious thief, brought back for one last job...'yawn'), she has saved rubbish movies before by being the only watchable presence. But she's out of her depth here.

James Purefoy (The Following) and Morgan Freeman (a promising newcomer) admirably bolster the cast, but the biggest criticism you can throw at Momentum, ironically, is that it lacks real pace.

The director Stephen Campanelli learned under the tutelage of Clint Eastwood, who presented him with the Society of Cinema Operators Lifetime Achievement Award back in 2011, but awards do funny things to people.

Momentum looks great and has about as much suspense as a digital log fire. It comes to Netflix on May 20th.