An immortal warrior comes face to face with a terrible evil.

More than most in Hollywood, Vin Diesel is an actor who seems to have persisted mainly through force of will.

Vin Diesel is a man we can't help liking - mainly because he seems to have been one of the major reaons behind the reinvention and success of the Fast and Furious franchise, which has become one of the best action-packed series out there.

It seems pointless to have remade the 1973 George Romero low-budget cult classic horror – reckoned to be the forerunner of the many following ‘deadly toxins in the water turning the locals into fruitcakes’ – but somebody went and did it anyway.

Sunken treasures, a deadly virus, an African civil war, lots of sand, a bit of romance, some derring-do ... and a screenplay bogged down with not a single, small grain of originality.