Starring Tom 'Way Past Crazy' Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman... and Felicity!
If you're like me and you prefer to save your $9.50 for films that are going to rock the big screen, this is a good one to kick off the summer with. i watched it 5 hours ago and i'm still on overload, so let's do bullet points this time:
- Tom Cruise is like 45 years old, did all his own stunts, and most of them had me either sweating, hyperventilating, shaking, or peeing my pants.
- Philip Seymour Hoffman (or PSH) will henceforth be the paradigm by which ALL future movie bad guys will be judged. He's SO, SO good here, don't think that the action-movie genre is holding him back. (Since we're on
the subject of his considerable talents, i remember doing an 'Underrated Actors' Top 5 a while back, wherein i claimed that PSH was in fact not underrated b/c his comeuppance was nigh. Who won the Oscar for best actor this year? Yes, you may bow to me.)- Felicity ROCKS, although she was underused, and actually looked like a secret agent who knew her way around a firearm.
- i kept waiting for a lull in the plot/action when i could scurry to the bathroom... there wasn't one. Seriously. This movie goes at level 10 for the entire two hours.
- A portion takes place in Vatican City, heart of my heart (and thankfully doesn't wander into DaVinci territory).
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers with his native accent? i'll take two please.
- BOMBS IN PEOPLES' HEADS!!!
So yeah. i don't care what you think of Tom Cruise, his zombified baby-mama, or his couch-jumping: the man knows how to make a movie. If you like Lost, Alias, Felicity, and/or any of the prior M:I movies, you need to see this. It's fun. Just use the bathroom beforehand. 4.99 out of 5 improvised defibrilators (it lost .01 for the Humpty Dumpty line. You'll see).
1 comment:
i agree with your review, this movie was good. the only things i have to add are as follows:
1. i kind of missed seeing the whole secret agent planning session where they review what is going to happen before they actually do it,( see mission impossible for examples) but not enough to be sad about spending the money to see the movie!
2. did any one else see the parallel bewteen ethan and julia and tom and katie? the whole jumping into a marriage/relationship because they are so perfect for each other and no one understands quite what they are doing thing? that was a little distracting, but again, i still really liked it
3. the only points i deduct are for two things: how the crap did he get the rabbit's foot?!?! and what the crap is the rabbits foot?!?!? it was like the writers got a little tired so they used the whole "leave it as a mystery" thing as a slight cop-out.
so, those are my thoughts. not asked for and unwelcome i am sure...on a some-what related note: who's ready for X-3?!?! woo-hoo!!!
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