Category: Tom Cruise
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Mission: Impossible -The Final Reckoning
4 outta 5 The 8th, and potentially final, Mission: Impossible film, The Final Reckoning is a fairly bombastic finale for a series that has always been fairly bombastic. Probably a bit too much at a very long 2 hours and 50 minutes running time. It’s as if Tom Cruise saw that all these blockbusters are…
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
4 outta 5 Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One increases the epic scope of the Mission: Impossible series and, as the series has already been epic in scope, that’s saying something. The Mission movies are pushing about 30 years at this point (the first flick came out in ’96!) so upping the spectacle in…
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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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