Baku’s oil simply ran out, a phenomenon an increasing number of scientists believe is happening everywhere. If the figures in the movie are to be believed, finds have been decreasing, and in light of recent skyrocketing fuel prices, the technology needed to extract oil that’s ever-harder to reach will only raise the cost higher.

An atrocious movie with no qualities except lots of (albeit pointless) explosions could have been made better with more background, but it probably would have made it a lot worse. Half a point for sparing us, another for the pyrotechnics.

If you believe a hot firecracker like Kate Winslet (sample dialogue delivered in her cockney lilt; ‘I want your finger up my ____hole right now’) can be sexually attracted to a balding, heavyset fifty-something like Tony Soprano, maybe you’ll get something out of this film.