Tom Cruise Movies: In Theaters: ****Mission Impossible Final Reckoning (2025)

 The entire movie I was waiting for the wing walking which I had heard about.  It came in the final 20 minutes.  

This movie has a formidable villain in Gabriel (Esai Morales) who seems unstoppable at the first of the show.  He has set up a trap in which he has Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) in a trap, either save yourself and many people die, or disarm the bomb and only you die.  He chooses to save the any people and is killed.  Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is again all over the place doing impossible things.  It seems Gabriel is always a step ahead.  They are battling over a key which would give control of the AI which is taking over the world.  

One mistake that Gabriel makes is to betray his side kick, Paris (Pom Klementieff) who then becomes an asset knowing inside doings of Gabriel's network.  Grace (Hayley Aywell) continues as Hunt's love interest and spy.  Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) is a more active part of the team and is in harm's way.  

The plane walking comes in when it appears that all is lost, and Hunt jumps from his plane to that of Gabriel, and has to walk the wing to continue the fight.  

Plenty of action and lots of fun.  I think this may be the final Mission Impossible.

Tom Cruise Movie: ****Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One 2023

 In this movie the bad guy is an AI called The Entity.  It is unleashed when two keys are used.  Whoever controls the keys can control the world.  Efforts are made to buy one of the keys which is missing.  This movie includes some incredible motorcycle work and catching a train at full speed jumping off the bike and using a paraglider.and later the train going off a bridge.  Some incredible action.  

Fun movie with incredible action

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  Tom Cruise

  Ethan Hunt
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  Hayley Atwell

  Grace
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  Ving Rhames

  Luther Stickell
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  Simon Pegg

  Benji Dunn
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  Rebecca Ferguson

  Ilsa Faust

Movie Review: ****Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015)

 Tom Cruise and the gang are 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 until one of their agents went rogue, Lane (Sean Harris).  Lane is a worthy opponent; and there are many tense situations.  It seems they are always pulling things out at the last second.  

Movie Review: ****Mision Impossible: Fallout (2018)

Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018)  This movie has you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.  It grabs you and doesn't let go.  Sheri says some of the scenes seemed “impossible” to her, but that is what makes this film so unpredictable and exciting.  There is every kind of chase imaginable, car, motorcycle, on foot, helicopter etc.  There is also romantic situations effecting the decisions people make.  And there is counter espionage and misidentification.  This is a great movie with a cast that really shines.

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, Henry Cavill as August Walker, a CIA operative who wants to get Hunt, Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell, Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn, Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust, Michelle Monaghan as Julia Meade Hunt and Alec Baldwin as the director. Cool helicopter chase and fight as well as disarming two nuclear bombs.  Sean Harris again stars as Solomon Lane, the bad guy captured last episode but breaks out in this to continue his reign of terror.  

Movie Review: ****Star Trek Beyond (2016)

This is a movie for which you have to be prepared for lots of action.  It really keeps moving.  There is one little twist at the end that I don't want to give up, but the Enterprise faces an unstoppable enemy, bee like ships that all work together as one.  After destroying the Enterprise, they try to capture all the people, but the show never tells why or reveals how many actually die in the attack.  This is because the bee vessels were gathering everyone up and collecting them.  They all end up on the same planet, Spock, and Scottie and Dr. Bones all crashing into the planet, with the goal of rescuing their crew.  Scottie meets a local, at least local now as she has previously shipwrecked on the planet, her father was killed in an escape attempt, and she has been surviving in an Enterprise space ship which has been cloaked.  She is one pretty tough woman, but still scared to go back to the base.
Spock is determined not only to rescue the crew, but specifically Uhura, his girl friend.
This movie is a fast and exciting ride, which doesn't give up until the end.  I didn't take any fantastic theme from the movie, other than sometimes you can get lost in space.  This movie was mostly geared toward entertainment rather than philosophizing.
This movie starred: Chris Pine as Captain Kirk, Zachary Quinto as Commander Spock, Karl Urban as Dr. Bones, Zoe Saldana as Lieutenant Uhura, Simon Pegg as Scotty and Idris Elba as our bad guy, Kroll.  He was some fantastic bad guy.  Scotty, or rather Simon Pegg helped write the script.

Movie Review: ***Ice Age Collision Course (2016)

This is a the fifth in a series of Ice Age movies.  In this movie our Ice Age friends are faced with an asteroid headed to earth with sure extinction results as happened with the dinosaurs before.  This time the mammals are headed for destruction, but a sort of adventurer weasel, Buck (Simon Pegg) has figured out that they are doomed if they don't do anything.  This is a show also about relationship.  Our mammoth family (Ray Romano and Queen Latifah) is facing a daughter (Keke Palmer) getting married to a strange mammoth (Adam Devine), the saber teeth tiger (John Leguizamo and Jennifer Lopez) decide to have a baby, the sloth meets someone, the grandma sloth finds true love.  This movie is underscored with the nut chasing what ever it is, who gets in a space ship and knocks all the planets and everything around.  This character has been featured in many cartoons.
I took three boys, Skylar is three, he laughed the most, Jessi 6 says he was just angry, and Tony was mildly amused.  There were a couple spots of potty humor, but it didn't overwhelm the story.

Movie Review: ****Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011)

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol stars Tom Cruise.  Hendricks (Michael Nyqvist) is intent on causing a nuclear war, and has gottn the Russian nuclear codes.  However the IMF has been shut down because of impolications in blowing up the Kremlin in Russia.  They are limited to their current team and materials.  Jeremy Renner portrays Brandt.  The techno person is Benjamin (Simon Pegg) and the woman assistant is Jane (Paula Patton).  This show is like the typical Mission Impossible, action from start to finish, with bombs exploding and a number of chases.  They have a chase in an Arabian dust storm which adds to the trouble.  They also have the outside climbing of that tallest building in the world in Dubai.  Plenty of close calls keep you guessing in this show.  Tom Cruise thrives in the action genre.  This movie also explores the sacrifices a spy must make in terms of family and love life.  If you are into action, this show is also for you, and you will throughly enjoy it.  Sheri, my wife, really enjoyed it.  She likes the handsome man more than the intellectual.