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True Lies featuring Tom Cruise

Advantages: None at all
Disadvantages: Entire movie stolen from True Lies

Wow. What a weak plot. Ethan Hawke (Tom Cruise returning to the role for a 3rd outing) gets married and the bad guy captures his wife so he is left to try and rescue her. And the rest of the plot is an incredibly weak rip off from True Lies. That's sinking pretty low, not only stealing the plot from an Arnie film but stealing a plot from a film that's actually better than yours. Mission Impossible 1 and 2 were excellent films with good plots and ...
...Sheckley idea from a very surreal book called Mindswap (which I bet they never paid him for either). Your wife not knowing your a spy is pretty much lifted wholesale from True Lies and it dismayed me at how much of the plot of True Lies was reused in this film. The scene on the raised freeway being shot at by a plane yet again another idea stolen from True Lies. Simon Pegg's character seemed shoe horned into this film and totally didn't feel like ...

atytyut2434 06.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Mission: Impossible 3 (DVD)

No mission is Impossible

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This review is on the 2006, trilogy, Mission Impossible 3 starring Tom Cruise, as IFM agent Ethan Hunt. Now I was a really big fan of the first mission impossible, and then kind of let down by the second one, however again like the first one I liked the final instalment, because it was so much different in terms of storyline, style, action scenes and so on. The film was directed by JJ Abrams, who most people may no from such film as Cloverfeild, ...
...brilliant director, he does some of the most intense action sequences, and it pulls of really well. For people whom haven't seen the mission impossible film, the main background plot is that Ethan Hunt works for a special government agency known as the IMF, Impossible Mission Force, who is like a MI6 type organization. There goals are to stop all the bad guys and protect the country from disaster. Plot: Ethan Hunt, is just enjoying his retirement, ...

jaygami1986 27.10.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Mission: Impossible 3 (Special Collector's Edition) (DVD)

Mission: Impossible (Box Set)

Advantages: Classy fast paced action adventures starring Tom Cruise at his best
Disadvantages: None

...a devotee of the original Mission: Impossible television series I was looking forward to seeing these films. In their time the television series was very cutting edge in its story lines and effects. Mission: Impossible 1 opens with the hero Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) leading his team of operatives on a mission which goes horribly wrong. His team is wiped out ( with the exception of 1) and he is blamed by his spy bosses. As a result he is put out in ...
...went wrong and who was responsible. He contacts other agents who are beyond sanction and starts work. Vaneesa Redgrave has a cameo role in this film - not entirely believable in her part but it does not detract from the storyline. The special effects in this film are magic - hi tech and brilliant to watch. The various computer elements look great - whether actually possible or not I wouldn't know, but looks great. The resolution of the mystery ...

workangel 22.03.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Mission: Impossible 1 And 2 (DVD)

Mission: Improbably Dull

Advantages: Some decent action
Disadvantages: Overly long, downbeat and po-faced

Ethan Hunt has retired from active service in the Impossible Missions Force and is about to settle down and marry his nurse fiancée Julia, who knows nothing of his secret life. But at his engagement party he takes a call from IMF that reveals one of his protégés has been kidnapped while on a mission by international arms dealer Owen Davian. So Ethan goes in to save her. But things aren't quite as simple as they seem and he's soon back on the job, ...
...down Davian before the villain finds and destroys everything he holds dear. There was a lot of hoo-ha when "Alias" director and "Lost" creator JJ Abrams was brought on board this blockbuster project. Could he compete with the big boys on the big screen? Well, if you want my opinion, the answer is no. He spends so much time trying to prove his credentials that he forgets films are supposed to entertain. That is doubly true of secret agent movies. ...

afy9mab 16.11.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Mission: Impossible 3 (DVD)

The Bigger the hit, the faster the rush, the Sweeter the revenge!

Advantages: Great action packed film, Great actors, Good storyline
Disadvantages: You may not be able to get into the story-line!

...WHSmith. ***CRANK 2*** Crank 2: High Voltage was released this year and contains Jason Statham again. Chelio’s tears through the town in search for the Chinese criminal who has possession of his heart. Amy Smart, Dwight Yoakham, and Efren Ramirez revisit their roles from the original film. ***OVERALL OPINION*** I think Jason Statham is a fantastic actor anyway and I have to say that I loved this film. It was full of action and also has some funny ...
...I wouldn’t hesitate to watch Crank 2. My dad did how-ever borrow the DVD and after 30mins he switched it off as he couldn’t quite get into the film. If you like Jason as an actor and if you like his other films I think you with thoroughly enjoy this film. I would recommend it to anyone who like’s action packed films. (review als on dooyoo) ...

kiss_me2070 27.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Crank (DVD)