From the opening moment the modern Paramount logo shows up on screen with the original 80s Top Gun score by Harold Faltermeyer playing over the soundtrack, I couldn't help but smile that I was finally…
Tom Cruise's special agent Ethan Hunt is back for another seemingly impossible mission—that of course turns out to be impossibly possible, in no small part to his loyal IMF crew (including Simon Pegg …
My expectations really weren’t that high, and I guess you could say they were met, but as the inaugural film in what Universal hopes will become a massive “classic monster” franchise – which will incl…
Here I was, looking forward to a Tom Cruise movie! After his highly enjoyable sci-fi flick Edge of Tomorrow, and the equally impressive Mission: Impossible IV (aka Ghost Protocol), I actually wasn't a…
The mission of this film lies in the impossible stunts and effects, not in Ethan Hunt's (Cruise's) assignment to save humanity from a killer virus. Indeed, you'd have thought that only anime could pro…
So, now that you know the "plot", here are my comments:
I'd like to thank director J.J. Abrams. Not for this movie. Not for Lost or Alias. But for one of the greatest shows ever, Felicity. Thank you.…
Alas, where would the world be without Rain Man? What would we call our friends when they rattled off some obscure fact or showed signs of obsessive rigidity? What would the words, “def, definitely,…
In the not-too-far future, an alien race has come to Earth to destroy humanity. The alien infestation has spread across Europe, obliterating all the poor humans in its path, and next threatens to jump…
The Mission Impossible movies starring Tom Cruise blur together for me. I remember something about a hot orange car, Felicity's eye shattering like glass, some well-known star dying too soon in an ele…
Tom Cruise stars as Roy Miller, a CIA agent who may or may not have gone rogue, but who’s nonetheless on the run from his former partner, Fitzgerald (Peter Sarsgaard, turning in a trademark creepy-vil…
Tom Cruise stars as Jack Harper, a service tech working on a decimated Earth some 65 years in the future, who’s plagued by dreams of a dark-haired woman in the past. An alien invasion has left the pla…
Unlike the millions of fans of Lee Child's Jack Reacher books, I had never heard of the guy. I may as well be the equivalent of Richard Jenkins' jaded district attorney. One of his suspects, instead o…
