Tag: Hayley Atwell
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Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning Review
“Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning” features Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in a story intertwining previous narratives while facing an AI threat. Although the initial pacing is sluggish, the film delivers exhilarating action sequences in the second half. Despite being the weakest entry, it offers engaging moments for long-time fans.
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Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Part 1 (*****) doesn’t leave us hanging
McQuarrie and Cruise have pullled this series right to the top of the heap in an era where many movie makers feel justified making films with such animation as to feel like literal cartoons of CGI.
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Christopher Robin (****): If Hook were a good movie…
The sad fact is that the film can only end up in a boardroom, where stuffy old British men find in a few minutes what we’ve known all movie. I have no intention of keeping any of those aspects of the film in my mind. Instead, I will cradle memories of Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, Kanga,…
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Avengers: Age of Ultron (****1/2) too much good to be bad
Avengers: Age of Ultron – 2015 Written and Directed by Joss Whedon Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Cobie Smulders, Anthony Mackie, Hayley Atwell, Idris Elba, Stellan Skarsgård, James Spader, Samuel L. Jackson Tony Stark / Iron Man (facing fire of the enemy) Guys, wait. We gotta talk this through. (after incapacitating all of them with leg shots) It…
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier – The enemy is not us
Captain America: The Winter Soldier – 2014 Director Anthony Russo, Joe Russo Starring Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Cobie Smulders, Frank Grillo, Emily VanCamp, Hayley Atwell, Robert Redford, Samuel L. Jackson Screenplay by Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely Watching Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a special kind of thrill. In the small town of Seaside Oregon, Grouchnapper and I walked into a box theater which had less…
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