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This movie is a big ol' mess! The first hour was shockingly put together - vastly improved if they'd gotten Michael York as Basil Exposition!

Hayley Atwell is as a disaster as a character - adds nothing and the relationship with Ethan is confusing! Dropping Ferguson was calamitous!

Team dynamic was poor and everything in the war room should have been cut.

The submarine segment was one of the best set pieces in the series!

Bi-plane was typically spectacular but at this point just  feels like an excuse for Cruise to be Cruise.

Never has it been more apparent a film has been made on the fly with no real plot.

It peaked and should have ended with Fallout.

3/5 for nostalgia purposes

Steam train finale is superb!

The strain of shooting through COVID is more evident on this watch - the pacing is disted, the plot all over the place. The scene at the Venice nightclub is really poorly executed.

They did my girl Ilsa dirty in this!!

A sweet, beautifully shot love letter to Old Hollywood and to those who never give up on their dreams!

Easily one of Burton's best. Excellent performances by all involved!

Bill Murray quietly steals every scene he's in.

The gold standard! Regardless of how Final
Reckoning shakes out, Fallout should have been the finale. It would have been a perfect send off.

Love the nod to Heat during the Parisian set piece.

In the top 5 action movies of all time!

A sobering, reality check of a double feature with Let It Ride . This ain't no good time at the racetrack. It's an anxiety-ridden bummer of a movie.

Hoffman is typically fantastic as the downtrodden, increasingly desperate gambler. There's always a tinge of sadness in watching him play these kinda desperate souls but it's where he truly excelled. 

Nice ing turns from Driver (who I didn't recognize at first!) and Hurt.

Worth seeking out.

Immersive, heartbreaking, galvanizing stuff!

Unflinching, raw camerawork from the docu crew. The folk songs throughout are excellent.

"we shall not be moved"

Overlong and drags like hell during the Hunger Games portion, which kinda defeats the purpose. Should have expanded out the beginning and end chapters.

Blyth was solid in the lead albeit a tad distracting when he morphed into Diplo halfway through.

Too many songs!

Josh Andrés Rivera was the stand out and is the spitting image of a young Vincent D'onofrio!

My uncle had the dubbed version of this and its sequel on VHS and I watched them repeatedly as a kid!

The set pieces are still insane - the opening shanty town raid into the double decker bus chase is wild! The shopping mall finale is still one of the greatest extended fight scenes ever. The JC stunt crew fight choreography is incredible!

Banger of a tune from Jackie over the end credits!

Maggie Cheung!

Really enjoy this one, primarily due to the addition of the magnetic Rebecca Ferguson who is the movies secret sauce! The Ethan/Ilsa dynamic is excellent.

Opera sequence superb.

The Morocco car/motorcyle chase is one of the highlights of the series!

Renner is already surplus to requirements. 

Sean Harris is a genuinely creepy villain.

Burj Khalifa scene is still incredible - film peaked there and the finale is rather anti-climactic in comparison!

First one to feel like a Bond movie. Terrible villain. 

Preferred the previous team although wish they had brought back Paula Patton!

Liked the callback to Max in the original with the mask - first time I've noticed it!

An off-beat buddy-cop style mystery with solid performances from JDM and Jack Quaid who really is cranking out projects this year!

Tonally, if not in quality, it reminded me of the underrated The Kid Detective.

I love a gambling movie and this bonkers, madcap comedy is great fun!

The film stylistically looks like Tony Scott and his crew came straight from Beverly Hills Cop 2 to shoot this!

Dreyfuss is in his 80's sweet spot and it's hard not to root for him. David Johansen is unhinged! Teri Garr and Jennifer Tilly are 🔥

Not as good as I used to think it was. Primarily down to the very mid 00's visual style of Abrams that hurts the eyes at times - hyperactive editing, blurred cinematography.

It's still an entertaining watch - an important reset after the calamitous Limp Bizkit-infused installment. The team dynamic is cool but they really missed a trick not bringing back Maggie Q for the sequels.

Plot is all over the place and PSH, as great as he is in it, is kinda wasted.

Giacchino score excellent.

Only rewatched the opening climbing scene.

Best thing about this film was that we got the Stiller/Cruise MTV Movie Awards bit!

Dougray Scott saying he's "absolutely gagging for it" is pretty hilarious!

The Prague and Langley set pieces are exceptionally well crafted, De Palma's signature style on full display. It's a delight to watch.

It's fun to see Cruise here still with a touch of that early days shit-eating grin and cocky swagger in the performance. Something that unfortunately all but disappears in future installments. 

Danny Elfman score is great!

Vanessa Redgrave still the only person in the series to have any sexual chemistry with Cruise.

"Hasta lasagna, don't get any on ya"

Did we need another movie about the war in Iraq from the POV of the USA? Nope.

From a purely technical perspective, it's a visceral, immersive, unpleasant experience.

I get that it will sell tickets but the entire cast of bright young things are completely wasted and could have been replaced by unknown actors.

The sound design is incredible.

A trippy Falling Down x Quiz Show mashup.

Paul Walter Ha excellent again as another in a string of disaffected loner characters that have become his niche.

Another great performance from the ubiquitous Walton Goggins!

A cozy, low-key charmer that finds just the right balance and isn't overly sweet or sentimental.

A great trio of performances with Alan Partridge's right hand man Tim Key, stealing the show.

It put a smile on my face throughout.

Get's increasingly ridiculous as the plot
unfolds but Fahy puts in a solid, committed performance and there are some De Palma style flourishes that I enjoyed.

Bonkers premise. Fun rewatch.

Devoid of any tension due to Clint's typically unhurried pacing as well as his seemingly complete disinterest in creating any mystery. He's known as a one and done take director and at times it's painfully obvious to see other actors struggle to create any energy. The antagonistic cop was terrible.

Clint seems invested in the thing which helps but other than that, it's as meat and potatoes as they come.

A beautiful film to look at, the period details are fantastic - set design, locations, costumes all top notch. 

A solid ensemble of actors all delivering for the most part, great performances. They really dropped the ball not getting Sutherland a ing nomination.

A really enjoyable Sunday movie choice.

Bill Murray is absolutely out of control in this!

A fun watch!

It's pretty clear why this film languished in post for so long. It's evident it's been directed by multiple people at different times . One minute it's Blade Runner, the next, it's some of the worst bargain bin Sin City CGI I've ever seen.

Is Hardy forever stuck in Bane/Venom mode? Least convincing cop I've ever seen, doesn't look like he knows how to drink a cup of coffee in a natural way. 

Cant believe this is the same guy who made The Raid.

A waste of Olyphant - although it was momentarily fun to see him strut like Raylan again!

And this my friends is why we go to the cinema!!

Sweaty, sexy, essential filmmaking! 

A smorgasbord of superb performances! Can we get on the Delroy Lindo best ing actor train now?! O'Connell was superb - the Irish jig! Wunmi Mosaku and Hailee Steinfeld amazing! MBJ planting his flag as the most vital of new movie stars, knows when to step back and let others shine!

Coogler ain't messing, this is bold stuff! Give him all the dough to make whatever the hell he wants!

Double feature this and Small Axe: Lovers Rock! 

Post credits bumped it up another 1/2 star.

A fast paced and funny farce with first rate, period production design and a great ensemble cast - Wiest and Palminteri being the standouts.

Jim Broadbent pulling out a chicken wing in front of Jennifer Tilly was hilarious!

As far as the 4th (and hopefully) final film in a movie series go, you could do a lot worse.

Some problematic attempts at humour and a fairly non-existent plot aside, it coasts massively on the good-will built up over the series and just about gets away with it.

Fair play to Jet Li for attempting to make it even remotely possible for Gibson and Glover to get a couple punches in!

It lacks the live wire, unpredictable energy of 1 & 2 and feels drawn out and a tad like it's going through the motions at times. However, Glover and Gibson's chemistry is still excellent and when that Kamen score strikes up, there's a comfortable familiarity to it all that's hard not to like.

Shane Black's lack of involvement is definitely felt.

Absolutely stinking! Acting atrocious. Awful writing.

The biker bar with the chrome throne? Terrible Russian accents. 

At no point does this look in any way like
it was in Chicago. 

The maple syrup scene!

1/2 star for the DJ Shadow needle drop.

Every character seemingly dressed in cosplay for a magic show

Spectacular

A crazy time capsule of a movie - Kline is still riding the Oscar win into leading man roles and Kasdan allows him to absolutely COOK - that Italian accent is insane!

An incredible feast of ing performances -  Phoenix, Hurt, Reeves, Ullman (wish she had done more movies!), Plowright are all superb -  way too good for the material but it's fun to watch them slum it a little.

Phoebe Cates 🔥

🤌🤌

There is an entire sub-plot dedicated to Bruce Dern's Vietnam vet being bested by his neighbor's Bichon Frise! Joe Dante is a genius!

A massive dose of nostalgia for me. One of the first Mania's I can watching! Terrible matches but great to revisit. 

Bret ❤️ as bitter as ever, love it! Bret did not screw Bret!!

The (justified) hatred of Hogan still in full effect.

An audacious, bloody wild ride! 

Laurie Pavy, helluva performance.

I had a blast with this one - go in blind if you can, it's worth it.

Very much looking forward to what David Moreau does next.

2024 Best Of

Chong Li is in the top tier of movie villains!

The score/soundtrack to this is some of the best of the 80's "Kumate"is a banger!

The dubbing over the kid playing young Frank Dux is hilarious - it's like they didn't  know if they wanted to commit to him being Belgian or American!

The Hong Kong location work is excellent!

Van Damme full splits at Victoria Peak is iconic! I went to a Bubba Gump's on that exact spot

Art imitates life, I guess!

Exhaustingly miserable viewing

Solid sci-fi with good direction and stylish set design and visuals.

Patel is okay, Olsen great but this is Vikander's show and she is truly excellent, it's a wild performance - funny, creepy and very unsettling! 

Minnie Driver has a bitingly amusing cameo!

Final third unraveled a tad with the reveal of particular motivations but overall it's still an enjoyable watch.

Russell Crowe is by far the most enjoyable part of this otherwise ridiculous film - feel like he could have played The Riddler!

Denzel seems bored.

An exhaustingly grim thriller with a great central performance by Chris Abbott.

The non-linear structure unfortunately snuffs out the tension midway through the film.

Classy stuff from Soderbergh.

Impeccable style.

Marisa Abela - movie star!

"This isn't even my desk"

@TerrorTerroir

5 star viewing experience (as it always is)

Justice for Pin!

Schizophrenia ain't no joke but in this, there were chuckles aplenty!

The start of the film makes ZERO sense! 

John Locke!

RIP Val ❤️

My birthday movie pick tonight!

@ Metrograph 

Kathleen Byron as Sister Ruth was absolutely terrifying! 

Loved the matte paintings and the mountaintop setting.

Deborah Kerr excellent.

David Farrar's shorts and sandals were not it!

Classic early Hitchcock caper -  funny, suspenseful and moves at a clip!

Donat is excellent as the dashing Hannay and has fun chemistry with Carroll. Lots of quirky ing performances.

Really can't be stressed enough just how inventive and ahead of his time Hitchcock was.

Loved the character talking about missing Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A breezy, highly amusing adaptation of the excellent Graham Greene novel.

The on location shooting is great to look at -the streets of Havana look fantastic on screen.

A light footed Alec Guinness is on cracking form as the duplicitous vacuum salesman Wormold!

(Mum's 3rd pick)

It's Tony so my rating is definitely skewed! This film is absolutely batshit but for better or worse, it's unmistakably his.

Love that Scott bookended Last Boy Scout and this with insanely OTT openers and finales that feature torrential downpours at sporting events!

De Niro is ed hilariously throughout by NIN tunes every time he does something messed up! His performance is basically Max Cady x Rupert Pumpkin with a mix of Douglas in Falling Down.

Love Scott's aesthetic, Snipes is solid, Hans Zimmer score is great but in the wrong movie and Ellen Barkin is great fun.

De Niro finds at least a thousand different ways to say "Bobaaaaaaay"

Enjoyed every deranged minute out-with the ending!

Mum's rating: 4

Tony Scott ranked

(Mum's 2nd pick)

Penn and Robbin's got the lions share of the plaudits for extremely showy roles but for me, Marcia Gay Harden is the standout - truly heartbreaking.

Didn't buy Laura Linney's Southie Lady Macbeth one bit - it's pretty ridiculous.

Some of the Boston accents are laid on THICK "mugggaaaaaaa"

Solid enough stuff from Eastwood. 

Mum's rating 4

My mums Sunday afternoon pick. Vaguely it from original release. 

Firefighters absolutely should be recognized for their heroics but when it's this heavy-handed, it's hard to watch.

Phoenix's early 00's had some wild choices. Travolta mailing it in. Robert Patrick a couple shades away from his Copland role.

It's no Backdraft!

Mum's rating 3.5

Fiennes performance even better second time round.

1. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
2. Mission: Impossible
3. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
4. Mission: Impossible III
5. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
6. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
7. Mission: Impossible II

• Dune: Part Two
• Nickel Boys
• Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
• Red Rooms
• MadS
• Challengers
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• Kneecap
• Sing Sing
• Anora

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The good old days! Gone too soon!

1. True Romance
2. Crimson Tide
3. The Last Boy Scout
4. Beverly Hills Cop II
5. Enemy of the State
6. Déjà Vu
7. Man on Fire
8. Top Gun
9. Spy Game
10. Days of Thunder

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The Master of Horror! A lot of these movies shaped my childhood viewing!

1. The Thing
2. They Live
3. Big Trouble in Little China
4. Prince of Darkness
5. Escape from New York
6. The Fog
7. Halloween
8. Assault on Precinct 13
9. In the Mouth of Madness
10. Christine

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Stand by Me
• The Shining
• Misery
• The Shawshank Redemption
• Carrie
• The Green Mile
• The Dead Zone
• Doctor Sleep
• The Mist
• Christine

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Streets of Fire
• The Warriors
• The Driver
• Hard Times
• Extreme Prejudice
• 48 Hrs.
• Tres
• Southern Comfort
• Johnny Handsome
• Another 48 Hrs.

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The greatest decade of film? 

• Jaws
• Chinatown
• The Godfather
• The Godfather Part II
• All the President's Men
• The Exorcist
• Star Wars
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• The Parallax View
• Black Christmas

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

some of my favourites over the years!

• When They See Us

  Essential, devastating viewing!

• ZeroZeroZero
• The Curse
• Adolescence
• We Own This City
• Shōgun
• State of Play
• The Little Drummer Girl
• The Night Of
• Show Me a Hero

...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Memories of Murder
• Parasite
• Mother
• Snowpiercer
• Okja
• Mickey 17

1. Casino
2. GoodFellas
3. Taxi Driver
4. The Wolf of Wall Street
5. Raging Bull
6. The King of Comedy
7. Cape Fear
8. After Hours
9. Shutter Island
10. The Aviator

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Jaws
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Jurassic Park
4. Schindler's List
5. Minority Report
6. Empire of the Sun
7. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
8. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
9. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
10. Catch Me If You Can

...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Has one of greatest back-to-back-to-back runs of all time!

1. Last Action Hero
2. Die Hard With a Vengeance
3. Die Hard
4. Predator
5. The Hunt for Red October
6. The Thomas Crown Affair
7. The 13th Warrior
8. Basic
9. Medicine Man
10. Nomads

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This is a Mann's world!

1. Heat
2. Thief
3. Manhunter
4. The Insider
5. Collateral
6. Miami Vice
7. The Last of the Mohicans
8. Public Enemies
9. Ali
10. Blackhat

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Not that one

• Shame
• Widows
• 12 Years a Slave
• Small Axe
• Hunger
• Blitz

1. Heat
2. Blade Runner
3. Jaws
4. The Thing
5. Chinatown
6. JFK
7. Rear Window
8. Before Sunset
9. Blow Out
10. Point Break

• Blow Out
• The Untouchables
• Body Double
• Casualties of War
• Carrie
• Mission: Impossible
• Carlito's Way
• Dressed to Kill
• Scarface
• Snake Eyes

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Feel like we are due a new run of Grisham adaptations soon!

1. The Firm
2. A Time to Kill
3. The Client
4. Runaway Jury
5. The Pelican Brief
6. The Rainmaker
7. The Gingerbread Man
8. The Chamber

• Pearl
• The Innkeepers
• The House of the Devil
• X
• MaXXXine
• The Sacrament
• In a Valley of Violence

My second favourite Scott brother!

• Blade Runner
• Alien
• Thelma & Louise
• Black Hawk Down
• The Counselor
• American Gangster
• Black Rain
• Gladiator
• White Squall
• Kingdom of Heaven

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

His dark materials!

1. Zodiac
2. Se7en
3. The Social Network
4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
5. The Game
6. The Killer
7. Fight Club
8. Panic Room
9. Mank
10. Gone Girl

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Blade Runner 2049
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Sicario
4. Dune
5. Arrival
6. Prisoners
7. Enemy

Still a few major titles from 2023 to catch up
on and will then update 

• The Iron Claw
• The Killer
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Past Lives
• Oppenheimer
• How to Blow Up a Pipeline
• The Holdovers
• Maestro
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning

...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The King of the World, big Jim!

• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Aliens
• The Terminator
• True Lies
• Titanic
• Avatar
• The Abyss

1. JFK
2. Platoon
3. Talk Radio
4. Any Given Sunday
5. Born on the Fourth of July
6. Wall Street
7. Natural Born Killers
8. Salvador
9. U Turn
10. Nixon

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Dunkirk
2. Oppenheimer
3. The Prestige
4. The Dark Knight
5. Interstellar
6. Inception
7. Memento
8. Tenet
9. Batman Begins
10. Insomnia

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Off the record, on the QT and very hush-hush!

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Jackie Brown
3. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
4. Inglourious Basterds
5. The Hateful Eight
6. Reservoir Dogs
7. Django Unchained
8. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
9. Death Proof
10. Kill Bill: Vol. 2

1. Boogie Nights
2. Phantom Thread
3. Inherent Vice
4. The Master
5. There Will Be Blood
6. Punch-Drunk Love
7. Licorice Pizza
8. Magnolia
9. Hard Eight

• Maniac Cop
• My Bloody Valentine
• Bell, Book and Candle
• Seance on a Wet Afternoon
• The Town that Dreaded Sundown
• Totally Killer
• I Know What You Did Last Summer
• Christine
• Disturbing Behavior
• The House of the Devil

1. The Exorcist
2. To Live and Die in L.A.
3. The French Connection
4. Sorcerer
5. Killer Joe
6. The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
7. Cruising
8. The Hunted

Missed a few releases (Avatar 2, Tar, RRR, All Quiet on the Western Front, Benediciton) that may be added when I get to them

1. Aftersun
2. Top Gun: Maverick
3. Babylon
4. The Banshees of Inisherin
5. Boiling Point
6. Emily the Criminal
7. After Yang
8. The Stranger
9. Decision to Leave
10. Navalny

...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Gray has to be one of the most under-appreciated directors around!

• Ad Astra
• We Own the Night
• The Immigrant
• Two Lovers
• The Lost City of Z

  The casting of Charlie Hunnam was a critical  mistake! One of my all time favourite books is massively diminished by that faux pas!

• Armageddon Time
• The Yards
• Little Odessa

Rainy day movies that I've watched repeatedly over the years!

• The 'Burbs
• The Lost Boys
• Point Break
• Big Trouble in Little China
• Lethal Weapon
• The Last Boy Scout
• Se7en
• True Romance
• Field of Dreams
• Beverly Hills Cop II

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My favourites  - Only including the second movie in a series

• Blade Runner 2049
• Before Sunset
• The Godfather Part II
• The Dark Knight
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Top Gun: Maverick
• Beverly Hills Cop II
• Lethal Weapon 2
• Aliens
• Back to the Future Part II

No order, just some of my favourites!

• The Wailing
• I Saw the Devil
• Memories of Murder
• Parasite
• The Chaser
• Train to Busan
• The Handmaiden
• The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil
• Mother

I love a Shane Black Christmas!

1. Lethal Weapon
2. The Last Boy Scout
3. Last Action Hero
4. Lethal Weapon 2
5. The Long Kiss Goodnight
6. The Nice Guys
7. The Monster Squad
8. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
9. Iron Man 3
10. The Predator

Kathryn Bigelow, please make more movies!

1. Point Break
2. Strange Days
3. Near Dark
4. The Hurt Locker
5. Zero Dark Thirty
6. Blue Steel
7. Detroit
8. K-19: The Widowmaker

And that's the truth, Ruth!

1. He Got Game
2. 25th Hour
3. Clockers
4. Do the Right Thing
5. Inside Man
6. BlacKkKlansman
7. Mo' Better Blues
8. Jungle Fever
9. Bamboozled
10. Da 5 Bloods

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Parasite
• Ad Astra
• Monos
• 1917
• Uncut Gems
• Honey Boy
• Calm with Horses
• Motherless Brooklyn
• The Peanut Butter Falcon
• Knives Out

1. Soul
2. Collective
3. Tenet
4. Saint Maud
5. Sound of Metal
6. Palm Springs
7. Let Him Go
8. The Dissident
9. Another Round
10. Possessor