Films like Dragonball Evolution.

Dragonball Evolution (2009) reads as Sombre, breathless, extreme action / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Battleship (2012) poster
1. Battleship2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009) poster
2. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Underworld: Evolution (2006) poster
3. Underworld: Evolution2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Ghost Rider (2007) poster
4. Ghost Rider2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) poster
5. Terminator: Dark Fate2019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) poster
6. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen2003

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Underworld (2003) poster
7. Underworld2003

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Host (2013) poster
8. The Host2013

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) poster
9. Star Trek: Insurrection1998

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Ender's Game (2013) poster
10. Ender's Game2013

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) poster
11. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen2009

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Green Lantern (2011) poster
12. Green Lantern2011

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

These are Dragonball Evolution’s neighbours — where are yours?

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