★★★ It’s a good thing this series is over so I don’t have to keep losing brain cells trying to figure out the title. Last I checked, this film’s predecessor was called Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. Now we have the eighth film, simply titled Final Reckoning, but which has, not to spoil […]
★★½ Both the good and the bad of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One can be summed up by a sequence early on that told me more about the film than anything else on its own did. A group of government heads are having an intelligence meeting about the central threat – a rogue […]
Top Gun‘s legacy sequel of 36 years owes its story and existence to a great many things; not just the original. It’s “Mission: Impossible” and Heartbreak Ridge (1986) with fighter jets and erotica – your easy tagline for Maverick. See it in IMAX, then see it again. It deserves it, and so do your local […]
★★★★ “If the Secretary wanted me out of there, it must be pretty bad out here.” – Ethan Hunt As a rule, the longer a franchise runs, the more stale it gets, and the easier it is to spot the moment where it peaked. Even with exceptions, the rule remains. Harry Potter peaked with the […]
In A Few Good Men, adversarial parties to a court martial prove themselves capable of confronting part of the truth, but never all of it. My childhood owes a lot to this film. No, I’m not one of those kids who watched it in the ’90s and then decided from that moment onward that my […]
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