Showing posts with label Tom Cruise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tom Cruise. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

EDGE OF TOMORROW (2014)

GROUNDHOG DAY meets Gears of War (with a dash of STARSHIP TROOPERS) and it's pretty fucking badass.  Military officer Tom Cruise wants no part in actual fighting, but one day he finds himself on the front line of a D-Day style beach invasion of humans (in battle suits) versus some awesome looking aliens called Mimics.  Things happen and Cruise is killed, but not before being bathed in weird alien goo.  (Kinky.)  Then...Cruise wakes up the previous day.  He's forced into battle again and dies again...only to wake up in the same time and place as he did before.  What the Hell is going on here?

I really, really enjoyed EDGE OF TOMORROW.  The video game feel to it, the time travel aspect with a strong story, awesome looking alien invaders that have a terrifying fighting style, very impressive editing, beautiful photography, the light humor that's not forced and actually funny, tons and tons of action.  EDGE OF TOMORROW is a blast!  I've always been a fan of Tom Cruise, but he's really been upping his game lately with films like this and OBLIVION

Highly recommended and the less said the better.  Just watch it.

Saturday, February 8, 2014

JACK REACHER (2012)

Like the love child of THE BOURNE IDENTITY and "Highway to Heaven", Jack Reacher is a tough as nails drifter with an almost angelic presence and strong sense of justice.  And if you don't like his sense of justice then he'll just beat or kill it into you.  After an ex-military dude is arrested for a sniper massacre, he's beaten into a coma thanks to some crooked cops, but not before he asks for Jack Reacher.  Preacher, I mean, Reacher shows up and the evidence looks pretty damning, but that doesn't mean anything when you have justice on your side!

Despite the cheesiness of the all knowing, super tough guy character I enjoyed JACK REACHER.  The fight scenes were awesome and well filmed, Werner Herzog played a interesting bad guy, the pace was quick, good acting by everybody and the angelic stuff was funny enough that it made you giggle but not roll your eyes.  Worth a watch.

Part 2 - Jack Reacher:Never Go Back (2016)