I have a bunch of praises and a bunch of complaints. I’m going to act like I need to quickly get it all out there before a ticking time bomb is about to go off because this installment drained me.
LIKED:
Phillip Seymour Hoffman being a villain.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman being the villain and the hero in the same scene!
Phillip Seymour Hoffman doing parkour.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman putting a beating on Tom Cruise.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman & Maggie Q on…
It’s all a matter of preference so I won’t butcher it too hard. If one prefers John Woo’s directing style over the conventional way of directing an action scene or telling a story then by all means soak in the glory of what I believe is a forced romance that quickly escalates into a weird marriage scuffle as fast as Anthony Hopkins screen time, Tom Cruise’s long hair in slo motion, a Hans Zimmer score that blends well with the…
I must be a prude because X was a mixed bag for me. Though I must give credit to Ti West and his crew for making me smile for its callback to the 70’s and how horror around that time was incredibly fun. There were many instances I found myself engrossed by the 70’s love letter West was visually showing me with shocking death scenes that sometimes made me laugh, lechery with no filter that also sometimes gave me laughs,…
What makes this film standout to me compared to all the other installments after it, it has this very extremely cheesy but fun undertone to it that I believe is completely missing from the sequels.
Danny Elfman’s grand score pops with each scene. When Hunt jumps from the train onto the helicopter’s landing skid and the M:I theme song blares through my audio system, my heart starts prancing in joy.
Tom Cruise has never been so over-the-top in the series…
