Big Al Reviews
Movie reviews and more by Albert DeSantis
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Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (’15 review)
3 outta 5 There is a lot of nifty set-pieces and narrative trickery in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. It doesn’t have the Brian De Palma weirdness of the first Impossible, the John Woo slow-motion doves of M:I:2, the heart and kinetic kick of J.J. Abrams’ Mission: Impossible III, or the humorous inventiveness of Brad…
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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…
