Mike Patron

Favorite films

  • The Nice Guys
  • The Graduate
  • Before Sunset
  • RRR

All
  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

    ★★★★★

  • Unknown

    ★★★

  • 28 Days Later

    ★★★★

  • Final Destination 5

    ★★★★

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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

2025

★★★★★ Liked Watched

Tom Cruise asked me to trust him one last time and he didn't let me down. The McQuarrie era of these films feel very much like their own thing and an examination of Cruise himself, so seeing them attempt to tie up as many loose ends as possible shouldn't have worked as well as it does here. By this point we all know the drill. Give Ethan Hunt an impossible mission and he WILL pull it off, he WILL turn…

Unknown

2006

★★★ Rewatched

A perfect example of "I saw this back in the early days of streaming when that was a pretty novel thing". All I ed was the premise and a vague recollection of some of the reveals, but it was decently fun to revisit thanks to some solid work from some solid character actors.

Degrees of Tom Cruise: 1
Unknown - Joe Pantoliano
Risky Business - Tom Cruise

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Doggie Heaven

2008

Watched

I can't believe James Wan and Leigh Whannell made this after making four Saw movies.

RRR: Behind & Beyond

2024

★★★★★ Liked Watched

I normally don't assign star ratings to documentaries, but this is a special case.

When RRR released a couple years ago (on my birthday no less), it quickly became one of my most memorable theatrical experiences and one of my favorite films of all time. I've spent the equivalent hours of an entire day watching it in theaters eight times, watched it at home three more times, and shared this movie with many, many friends and loved ones. In short,…