Tom Cruise and the gang is back for another adventure as they try to discover a rogue spy network called the Syndicate which is working to thin the population and destabilize governments. An ex British agent is in charge of this terror network. The regular crew is all back for this movie with the addition of Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson). Faust is with British intelligence. But British intelligence has a secret. They funded the Syndicate tell one of their agents went rogue, Lane (Sean Harris). Lane is a worhty opponent, and there are many tense situations. It seems they are always ulling things out at the last second.
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Movie Review: ****Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Mission Impossible 3 has the most terrible villain, Owen Davian (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) who is truly evil and is determined to go after Hunt's (Tom Cruise) family as revenge for his capturing him. He is able to make good on this as there is an ally inside the IMF. In this movie Ethan Hunt marries Julia (Michelle Monaghan) and struggles with how much she needs to know. She is a medical doctor. Rounding out Hunt's team are Luther (Ving Rhames), Declan (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) as tech control and Zhen (Maggie Q). This Mission Impossible episode is personal as Davian comes after Hunt. Hoffman does a very evil bad guy and as such takes over the show. He inserts explosive devices in people's brains which he can explode. Hunt gets one in his brain, and when activated only has minimal time to die; and hopefully come back to life.
Movie Review: ****Mission Impossible II (2000)
Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt and Ving Rhames as Luther are back for more action. Add a villain in the person of Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) and a woman on the inside, Nyah Hall (Thandiwe Newton). The premise is the bad guys have stolen the plans for a virus and hope to release it on the world and then make money from the sell of the vaccination. The virus gives you 20 hours after infection before it manifests and becomes almost fatal. Of course the pretty lady is infected, Hunt has to get the antidote from the lab that made it and hopes to become wealthy. Ambrose forces the company to sell him shares. Only Hunt stands between he and billions. Cool chase in Australia which results in a motorcycle duel.
Great fun
Saturday, May 31, 2025
Movie Review: ****Mission: Impossible (1996)
This is the first in a series of movies starring Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt. In this first Mission:Impossible the team is compromised and everything goes terribly in the first scene as it appears the entire team is killed. Jim (Jon Voight) is the director of the team. Turns out the operation was a ruse and it was in fact an operation to chase out a mole, and Ethan is accused of being the mole. He must solve this one on his own. He is able to recruit Luther (Ving Rhames) and Krieger (Jean Reno). Also one of the team, Claire (Emmanuelle Béart) who was presumed killed but was not, shows up. There are now trust issues. The mole is also still in place. There are many tense and exciting moments in this movie. And in the end the high-speed train tunnel from England to France comes into play. Vanessa Redgrave plays Max, the woman who buys secret spy information.
Mission:Impossible movies do not have a great moral or theme but they do entertain.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Tom Selleck Movie Review: ***^ Runaway (1984)
This is a very good movie about what can happen if technology goes awry; and worse if a villain is manipulating the technology. Tom Selleck stars as Ramsay, a technology police officer, capturing runaway robots. Cynthia Rhodes as Thompson, his partner. The villain, Luther is portrayed by Gene Simmons of KISS. Kristie Alley has a smaller part as Jackie, Luther's girl friend. The technology is very scary: bullets that are programmed to your heat signature and will follow you around corners, spider like robots that squirt acid on you and tiny chips which can make any robot a killer. And Luther is truly an evil demon. He seems to take pride in what he has created, and the plot of the movie is he is trying to get microfilm with plans for further bad technology. He has killed the creators of the microchips and plans and is looking for a big haul. He even involves Ramsay's son in his evil.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
In Theaters: ****^Thunderbolts (2025)
I know Thunderbolts has not done as well at the box office as most Marvel movies, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. The only part I didn't like was one of the characters being eliminated before the movie really even gets started. But the others doe very well, each having particular strengths. They have all been working for Valentina (Julia Louis-Dreyfuss) who is under investigation and wants them to kill each other. Only one is killed, Antonia Dreykov (Olga Kurylenko). However the others are all in peril as they are trapped, and the room will soon be incinerated. Yelena (Florence Pugh), John Walker (Wyatt Russell) and Ava Star (Hannah John-Kamen) are all surprised to meet somebody new, Bob (Lewis Pullman). They are eventually joined by two persons who were not trapped, Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) who is now a congressman and investigating Valentina and Alexei Shostakov (David Harbour) who is Yelena's father.
This movie deals a lot with personal regrets and the void. Turns our Bob who seems to have woken up not knowing where he is, is in fact Sentry, a super super hero who has been developed by a research project of Valentina. However the project was destroyed to hide evidence in light of the investigation.
It is while Sentry is unconscious when things get really bad. This releases a Sentry deep in depression which he calls the void. everyone is sucked into the void and turns to shadow. Each of the team members must face their worse memories.
Lots of fun and lots of action. Towards the end they are introduces as the New Avengers.
Tom Selleck Movie Review: ****Jesse Stone: Stone Cold (2005)
This is the first Jesse Stone movie based on the book with the same name. This is about a couple of serial killers coming to Paradise, who somewhat randomly pick their targets, but by the end of the movie are wanted to kill people that would cause pain for Chief Stone. His current girlfriend or he calls her a pal with whom he has sex is one of the victims. The killers are a husband and wife who seem to get a thrill out of killing. Adams is a very good shot and each of the victims receives two bullets to the heart. When they go after Stone he is prepared with a bullet proof vest.
There is also a teen date rape story. The popular athlete and his friends commit a rape and tell the lady she wwill regret it if she tells.
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