Tag: Tom Cruise

Collateral intelligently makes an audience question their own morality, and follows two men looking for a way to prove they're right.

Jerry Maguire doesn't tear down or alter the romantic drama/comedy formula, but finds a finds purpose in its characters.

Days of Thunder repeats movie history to an exacting degree, and while an entertaining watch, the story is a listless jumble.

It's hard not to be drawn in by Top Gun's lavish, theatrical presentation even if its routine story does nothing unpredictable.

While partly let down by its too-clean ending, War of the Worlds acts as a bridge to understanding post-9/11 feelings and a changing reality.

“Same Old Ethan” Few summer blockbusters appeal to film buffs, and then there’s Mission: Impossible. Practicality and Tom Cruise’s questionable non-commitment to safety creates faultless screen action. Implausible, yet …

Jack Reaching for Truth Jack Reacher isn’t fond of two things: the American justice system and foreign capitalists. It take an ex-military drifter – Reacher – to uncover the …

Nuka-Cola Funny how some movies end up accidentally prophetical. Here’s an action flick from 2011 with a deep-rooted fear of nukes, critical of American intelligence agencies, leery of Russian …

Kidnapping terrorists? Through the Vatican? Kinky. While absurd, the end point of Mission: Impossible III lies entirely with the Bush era. The corrupted American IMF seeks a weapon meant …

\ Woo-ing Audiences Critical and audience response to the first Mission: Impossible took potshots at the script’s complexity. It was fair criticism. Mission: Impossible II’s production team responded. The …

More Possible Than Expected Nestled comfortably in place during Hollywood’s ‘60s TV reboot cycle (dropping Addams Family, Flintstones, and others onto screens), Mission: Impossible plots out a course of …

Crime Cruise It’s the perfect title – American Made. Often stickered onto products designating their source, the phrase also holds truth in the case of Barry Seal (Tom Cruise). …