Tom Cruise is back with his fake final movie and it's just as unreliable as it sounds.
As a long-running franchise, "MI" has always been nothing less than a glorified spy-action airport novel one might bring along a trans-Pacific flight to fall asleep quick. It never, if rarely, holds itself up as a compelling nor consequential source of emotional catharsis, and, as far as the franchise-peak "Fallout" is concerned, is much better off for it. Because of this, I can't…
I strongly suspect Netflix or some other producer mandated Gareth Evans make several tonal, narrative, and casting concessions to this film. The writing here is noticeably uncharacteristic to the rest of Evans' filmography and is much more in line with the kind of Netflix/reddit swill that's become so suffocatingly popular nowadays. Idk, maybe it's easier for me to imagine the director of both "Raid" movies bent a knee for the sake of producing an altered vision than to have voluntarily…
