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2025

★★★½ Watched 31 May 2025

Death anxiety remains a highly potent and devilishly entertaining cinematic force

2025

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Not sure if there's anyone who has as much faith in humanity as Tom Cruise has. While the 'impossible mission' conceit may have started as 'the kind of mission that no human can pull off,' in Final Reckoning, in which Ethan Hunt and his team confront the evil AI - taking form here as a remarkably poignant doomsday mechanism - the idea slowly crystalizes into something more akin to 'that which only humanity is capable of doing' - that being;…

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2025

★★½ 2

It’s like “The Boys” meets “Everything, Everywhere, All At Once,” and it’s mostly fine, sort of, but… I don’t know, I’m just tired; I’m tired of Marvel scrambling to find a direction – the search for the new Avengers and the 'Marvel fatigue' are now an explicit part of the plot and it’s just not interesting at all as a dramatic conflict (just get your shit together, don't dump this on the audience); I’m tired of Marvel scraping bits and…

2024

★★★★½ Liked 4

Oh man so much to dig into here. The first half was a beautifully grand experience of timeless cinema, but I think the second half is what actually made it truly interesting, made it more than an exercise in “hey how we used to make movies?” There’s internal contradictions, complications and perspectives that take form here that challenge the emerging construction to instead explore the deeper and darker ages of its foundation, and deep and dark they are. All…

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