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TONY ORTEGA
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Once again Luke Y. Thompson (AV Club) has given us an exclusive film review you’ll find only here at the Bunker. Our association with Luke goes back more than 20 years, to a now defunct publication, New Times Los Angeles, where he was one of the very few reviewers in the country who actually liked John Travolta’s Battlefield Earth. In other words, Luke calls them the way he sees them. He last provided us a look at Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and before that what we still consider the best and most truthful review of Top Gun: Maverick that you’ll find anywhere. (Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning opens in US theaters on May 23.)
If there’s a running theme to Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, it’s that everyone thinks Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt is a total nutjob, but he’s actually the greatest human being alive — just trust him!
He’ll save every one of us, ah-aahhhhh! No, really, he’s specific about this: He lives and dies in the shadows “for those we hold close and for those we never meet.” And if you take a drink every time a character onscreen repeats that, you shouldn’t drive home. In three hours, yes, three hours, there’s a lot of time to talk, since Cruise really only does two of the Big Dumb Stunts these movies are sold on.
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If there’s a running theme to Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, it’s that everyone thinks Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt is a total nutjob, but he’s actually the greatest human being alive — just trust him!
He’ll save every one of us, ah-aahhhhh! No, really, he’s specific about this: He lives and dies in the shadows “for those we hold close and for those we never meet.” And if you take a drink every time a character onscreen repeats that, you shouldn’t drive home. In three hours, yes, three hours, there’s a lot of time to talk, since Cruise really only does two of the Big Dumb Stunts these movies are sold on.
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For a final (?) Mission, an older Tom Cruise forgets some basic film lessons
Once again Luke Y.
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