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Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
More of the same
This is the Mission Impossible format: Intro. Tom Cruise in the middle of a mission in some far away country fighting bad guys while doing unbelievable physical feats. 2. Tom Cruise receives a new mission he always accepts, 3. He then gets attacked by bad guys or framed by the organization who wants to destroy the world, 4. He meets hot interracial girl who always tries to kill him but he ends falling in love for her, 5. He sets up a team to find out the bad guy and usually to get what bad guy needs, 6. He trespasses some impossible place were humans cannot access and finds a way to get what the bad guy wants. 6. He finds bad guy with what he needs and never gives it to him and gets tortured in exchange(he can also get tortured at the beginning mission too). 7. He beats bad guy. 8. Team is happy and end of story.
Facts Tom Cruise never dies and never gets badly injured. He always disables self destructing devices at the last millisecond. He is a genius who can crack any code, memorize anything and figure out any puzzle. He never rides motorcycles with a helmet. At least once in every MI movie he disguises as the bad guy or semi-bad guy.
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
A different take on Tom Cruise's omnipotence
We love Tom Cruise because he has always played that egotistical and omnipotent character we love. But up to this movie he had never had the power to reincarnate, with the exception of Oblivion where he was cloned in an industrial scale. Cruise's movies so far only gave him the privilege of having one life therefore he had very little room to screw up, so basically in those 2 hours of movie everything he did had to be perfect. Mission Impossible for example had no room for mistakes, and if he died it was over. The problem with this is that in order to be consistent with this omnipotence his character was built upon an aura of excessive over- confidence and cockiness. This is not bad up to the first Mission Impossible, after that it has all been movie after movie the same perfect character that beats everyone and figures everything out. The Edge of Tomorrow on the other hand makes room for mistakes, insecurities and human flaws. Before Cruise gains the power to reincarnate he was just a regular human being afraid to go to war and with terrible fight skills. However as the story unveils and thanks to his gained ability to screw up, die and start again the character starts to evolve into the hero we are used to. Reincarnation made room for mistakes and for the human element. The good thing about this story is that we had a chance to see a more human Tom Cruise, one that we had never seen before. Although it was just for the beginning of the movie, it was enough time to proof that TC can also play regular human beings.
Tron: Legacy (2010)
When digital reality becomes physical
I would define this movie as a hybrid, influenced by science fiction classics like, Blade Runner, Matrix, Star Wars, Super Agent Cobra and Space Odyssey 2001.
This movie has the combined DNA from my favorite science fiction/ fantasy movies and it deserves a 9 because of that. Tron Legacy's genes are among the best in the genre, adding to this a powerful music score and next gen computer animation.
The women actresses seem like the materialization of 70's and 80's Japanese futuristic manga femme fatale, with the perfect bodies and faces.
The only things where the movie stays short is on some of the supporting actors/actresses and unfortunately Jeff Bridges CGI version still needs some work.
In conclusion I loved the movie and its definitely a keeper, repeater and recommender.