Tim Burton, an OK director who's read a couple of coffee-table art books on the gothic, directs this update. But, apart from an offcut of Edward Scissorhands here or a twist of Sleepy Hollow there, anyone could have been at the helm. Still, it still works well as an actioner. Very well. The pseudo-racial subtext is still there, embarrassingly surfacing as jarring dialogue in the mouth of the only black man on the planet - what, no interbreeding after all that time? And as a replacement for Charlton, big-chested Mark Wahlberg is easily as blank as Heston.