Tag: Tom Cruise

Bizarre, surreal, and wholly unique, Legend stands out for its risks if not its actual execution.

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 …