Out to own today:
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
 | “Join the I.M.F. See the world. On a monitor. In a closet,” Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) Palms perspiring at the tension levels, the pencil kept slipping out of my hand as I was writing notes during the Vienna-set opera action scene. Director Christopher McQuarrie wisely opts not to compete with the previous film's pinnacle Burj Khalifa sequence and instead ups the corporeal stakes. Violence on the verge of erupting hangs in the air. McQuarrie (THE WAY OF THE GUN), like fellow filmmaker Shane Black (LETHAL WEAPON, THE LAST BOY SCOUT), knows that formidable adversaries, unafraid to express themselves through brutality, are a necessity in an action-thriller to grip the audience. [To read more, click here.] |
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
 | “Contrary to what you may think, we are not in the haberdashery business,” Sanders (Jared Harris) Plodding then rushed, plodding then rushed. The pace has the feel of filmmakers falling asleep at the wheel, and then waking to find they still have more terrain to cover. By the supposed climax, THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. is so rushed, that one wonders where the hurry is being instigated from. (Creatives with a gun literally held to their collective heads to complete a film might make a more satisfying movie than this.) Incongruously THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. is both frivolous and leaden. [To read more, click here.] |
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