Yes, I was bored. I admit it, and it was a choice of this or "Bruce Almighty". However, I watched the first Charlie's Angels movie and I liked it! The first movie was an enjoyable no brain popcorn romp featuring three beautiful women kicking ass in skimpy outfits while performing Matrix-lite kung fu. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle is like that, but there's more. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (CAFT from now on) suffers from sequelitis. Sometimes, this is a good thing (Aliens, Terminator 2, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey) and sometimes it's a bad thing (Matrix: Reloaded, Beverley Hills Cop 2, Predator 2).

It seems that whoever has the list has already started to act upon it, and some protected witnesses are turning up dead. With the help from the new Bosley, the Angels spring into action to protect not only the innocent people on the list who may be inadvertently killed, but Dylan who herself is on the Witness Protection list. It seems that whoever is behind these dastardly deeds is working for an ex-boyfriend of Dylan's, and that he'll stop at nothing to exact some revenge.

All three of the main stars look as if they had a good time making the movie, and it's easy to see the work they've put into the film when the stunts pop up. The wire work is impressive, as it was in the first movie. Most of the main cast return, including Matt LeBlanc as Alex's love interest Jason and Luke Wilson as Natalie's boyfriend Pete and everyone provides a good enough performance for this type of film.

I can't say that it's a perfect movie however. There bits that really annoyed me, and while I'm probably going to sound quite daft for saying so especially in a movie such as this, but I'll explain (at the risk of sounding like a pedant). CAFT is an action movie in the same vein as the "James Bond" movies, or maybe even the Arnold Schwarzenegger movies of old. To me, what this means is that the stuff you see is all exaggerated and might be possible. For example, feats of strength, taking a beating and then coming back stronger than ever, unfeasibly large falls which don't do as much damage as they should. These are all acceptable. Cartwheeling through the air from one motorbike to another as one of the bikes explodes, all while 20 metres in the air is not the sort of thing which fits in here, and would be more suited to a superhero movie or one of The Matrix movies. There are one or two set pieces like this which I felt just tried too hard and failed as a result.

The film zips along quickly enough, and there's little enough plot to have to worry about missing any key pieces of information which is all explained to you anyway. McG's direction shows his pop video roots, and in CAFT his style hasn't changed from the original CA or the Sky One TV show, Fastlane. It's all frantic, but fun.

Directed by: Joseph McGinty Nichol (or McG for short)
Running Time: 106 min
Certificate: 12A