Annapolis

Given the title, you might think Justin Lin's disappointing follow-up to his solo feature directing debut, BETTER LUCK TOMORROW (2003), was an expose of life in a U.S. military institution a la AN OFFICE AND A GENTLEMAN (1982) or TAPS (1981), but it's really just ROCKY in gleaming dress whites. Growing up across the river from the prestigious U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., Jake Huard (a startlingly beefy James Franco) always dreamt of one day attending the prestigious and highly rigorous school where today's promising plebes are turned into the naval officers of tomorrow. Since high-school graduation, however, reality has taken precedence over dreams: Jake's b...