Tag: Simon Pegg
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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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Mission: Impossible – Fallout (***1/2) completes a cycle
“This is an excellently crafted film. It hits every mark that needs to be hit, often times too squarely for effect. The story worked with Rogue Nation for a two film arc, but it would be a good idea to go back to the original premise of different directors for different films now that we’ve…
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Ready Player One (****) Spielberg remembers how to have fun
“If you have any desire to legitimately smile at a Spielberg film for the first time in decades, see Ready Player One.”
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Star Trek Beyond (****) feels like films before
There is an old ship, that lay dormant for years that is discovered in the midst of the chaotic pace. That ship has a story that is only touched upon for purposes of pushing forward with the action at hand. How and why that ship was there for so long is what I wonder about…
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Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (***1/2) Needs desperate times…
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation – 2015 Written and Directed by Christopher McQuarrie Starring Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Sean Harris, Alec Baldwin One of the funniest scenes in the entire M:I series takes place during the 3rd act. As the principal protagonists surround a person of interest, one of the good guys, Benji (Pegg) is kidnapped by…
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The World’s End: Is a bit of a leap from a pub crawl
The World’s End Director Edgar Wright Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan, Rosamund Pike, Pierce Brosnan Written by Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg British comedy is often overrated, in the same way that France gets too much credit in the romance department. There are three citizens of the U.K. that help bridge the gap between how funny they…
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Star Trek Into Darkness: Going where they’ve gone before
Star Trek Into Darkness – 2013 Director J.J. Abrams Starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Benedict Cumberbatch, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Bruce Greenwood, Alice Eve, Peter Weller, Noel Clarke, Nazneen Contractor Screenplay by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof One of my favorite aspects to the Star Trek reboot (my very first…
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