Tag: action
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REVIEW: The Hunger Games – The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)

“If you love the originals, this will only stoke your Hunger Games fire. But if you’ve never seen the originals, you can still take it in as a stand-alone film and really enjoy yourself.”
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REVIEW: The Equalizer (2014)

Director Antoine Fuqua takes what really should be a pretty standard action movie and makes it one of the best of the decade…
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REVIEW: Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part 1 (2023)

Ethan Hunt (played by Tom Cruise) and his team of Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg), Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) are tasked with finding and securing two halves of a key. The key supposedly controls an A.I. known as “The Entity” and uses data to learn and predict human outcomes. Every government…
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REVIEW: Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)

IMF Agent Ethan Hunt (played by Tom Cruise) is on the run from his own government after he receives a typical “Your mission, should you choose to accept it…” message but from an organization called The Syndicate. CIA Director Alan Hunley (Alec Baldwin) aims to shut down the IMF, cutting off Hunt, William Brandt (Jeremy…
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REVIEW: Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)

IMF Agent Ethan Hunt (played by Tom Cruise) is in a Russian prison for killing six men who killed his wife (Michelle Monaghan). After an IMF team loses one of their own in a nuclear launch code theft, they’re ordered to break Hunt out so he can aid in the mission. The new team of…
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REVIEW: Mission Impossible III (2006)

Ethan Hunt (played by Tom Cruise) has spent the past few years training new IMF agents but is now retired. As he’s about to settle down and marry Julia Meade (Michelle Monaghan), he’s contacted by IMF Assistant Director and old friend John Musgrave (Billy Crudup) and pulled back in. One of Hunt’s trainees, Lindsey Farris…
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REVIEW: Mission Impossible 2 (2000)

A scientist at Biocyte Pharmaceuticals has developed a biological weapon called Chimera in order to profit from a cure they’ve also developed. Rogue IMF agent Sean Ambrose (played by Dougray Scott) confronts the scientist under the guise – literally – as his old friend Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and steals the cure in a plane…
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REVIEW: Mission Impossible (1996)

An Impossible Mission Force team is sent to Prague on a quest to capture footage of a rogue agent stealing the CIA NOC list. As members of the team mysteriously die off one by one, Ethan Hunt (played by Tom Cruise) finds out the whole operation was a set up. He goes underground and contacts…

