Big Al Reviews
Movie reviews and more by Albert DeSantis
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Mission: Impossible III (’06 review)
4 outta 5 The start of Mission Impossible III, with Philip Seymour Hoffman taunting and threatening a simmering, raging Tom Cruise to an explosive conclusion, is one of those grab-you-by-the-throat openers that automatically commands your attention. With an inventive script and direction by TV wonderkid J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost) MI:III manages to match that opening…
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
4 outta 5 There’s a weird release pattern to the (now five) Indiana Jones movies. The Steven Spielberg directed trilogy ran through the 1980s, and then almost two decades for the 4th movie Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and then another long gap until this fifth and apparently final movie, Indiana Jones and the Dial…
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (’08 review)
5 out of 5 The excitement of summer movie season has become diluted with every lame Batman sequel or annoying Speed Racer. Happily, director Steven Spielberg, writer/producer George Lucas, and star Harrison Ford have rejoined to make summer movies awesome again with the fourth Indy adventure, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. …
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