Actually looking at IMDB now it appears he was involved in all three. Still the second one was pretty awful.
― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 8 May 2006 07:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 8 May 2006 08:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Monday, 8 May 2006 08:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 May 2006 09:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Monday, 8 May 2006 09:08 (eighteen years ago) link
this is of course baring in mind
A) it stared and was produced tom cruise
B) it was the third part in a franchise where ultimately very little can change between films (bar the love interests of course)
C)i haven't seen 24 which from my limited knowledge of this seemed to bare a passing resemblence too
― secondhandnews (secondhandnews), Monday, 8 May 2006 10:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Of course much redundancy if you have seen the first two series of both 24 and Alias, and was kind of like True Lies without the misjudged gags (so in that way a lot better). Also, it might be a lot like TV series, BUT IS A FILM with plus and minuses of that.
― Pete (Pete), Monday, 8 May 2006 10:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Monday, 8 May 2006 10:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― secondhandnews (secondhandnews), Monday, 8 May 2006 10:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 8 May 2006 12:30 (eighteen years ago) link
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/archives/2006/05/upside_of_taps.php
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 12:52 (eighteen years ago) link
how do i get literary referece?
― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― p@reene (Pareene), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link
If you want to see a really good Spy Film, watch Munich. Its gotta be the best one ever. Action packed, edge of your seat kinda stuff.
― brontosaur (brontosaur), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link
lots of very entertaining set pieces, well-written, suprisingly well-directed, well-acted
and it has my crush from kiss kiss bang bang in it!
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link
just for the delivery
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link
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― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link
haha - at first I read this as Wallace Shawn, which is even funnier. kinda.
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― -+-+-+++- (ooo), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 20:01 (eighteen years ago) link
I do think this is the first movie where I was genuinely amused by the "action-movie-one-liners" in a way that didn't seem as if I was appreciating them for ironic or camp value. they were just funny and cheesy and great. not so great that I can remember any of them right now though.
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― gear (gear), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 20:25 (eighteen years ago) link
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― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 21:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Its a cop out because they didn't show the theft. if its the ordinary part of a heist sequence.. well make it EXTRAordinary. the screenwriter's couldn't think of an interesting way to do it, so they decided that the interesting way to do it would be to not show it. I say thats a cop out.
Not a totally unsastifying cop out because the movie moves from good scene (rooftop swinging and shootout), slight lull in action while team waits in van, to good scene (parachuting stuff) that seems more exciting because of previous lull. But it was a missed opportunity that I as a audience member might have liked to see. Of course, I seem to be in the minority on that point.
― brontosaur (brontosaur), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link
i liked the shorthand of not showing the heist. it was great at keeping the tension up as the audience is waiting around w/ the IMF crew, not knowing exactly what's going on inside. I thought that it was one of the moments of economy in flick, since we didn't need to seen more heisty stuff(the Vatican took care of that), and as i mentioned, the tension was kept just by helplessly waiting outside.
some of the things that pissed me off was usual Action Movie Stupidity(i.e. a defib that took 30 secs to charge, the team apparently not having the ability to close a huey door, using a defib on your head i accept, using 3-phase 220V power lines, less so, etc)
The chopper chase thru a field of windmills was a great setpiece.
you can tell when tom is Acting becuase he tries very, VERY hard to turn on the "intense."
i was happy that the asian chick didn't have to be Stock Asian Chick.
billy crudup looks weird w/ short hair.
they did the Collateral thing of occasionally switching to green-tinged DV whenever something Dramatic or Actiony was about to happen. Lots of off-center, semi-shakey extreme close-ups, too.
Anybody get a "Escape from NY" vibe of the hero w/ ticking bomb in his head that can only be deactivated with two paddles injecting a charge?
― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link
I liked it a lot, but it felt endless at times because everything was telegraphed so far ahead, and some of the action pieces could have been shorter. I wish action directors would chop a few minutes off of each setpiece, you really wouldn't notice it, but the movies would be paced so much better.
The team was awesome, Seymour Hoffman was awesome, Cruise was about as good as he always is.
― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 11 May 2006 02:51 (eighteen years ago) link
MI:3 gadgets >>>> anything Bond has worked with recently.
― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 11 May 2006 02:53 (eighteen years ago) link
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― gear (gear), Thursday, 11 May 2006 03:35 (eighteen years ago) link
he's good at it though! it's funny, the crazier and more publically-reviled the guy has gotten the more i've been enjoying his performances.
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 11 May 2006 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 11 May 2006 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link
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