Sunday, March 10, 2024

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (2 nominations) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 (1 nomination)

 

In all honesty, this is only the second Mission Impossible movie that I've ever seen, and this one I saw only for Oscars nominations.  This one is about Ethan and his team trying to stop what appears to be an unstoppable weapon. As always with visual effects films, the twists and turns are so complicated to recount, that I'll just say that this movie, as with seemingly all Tom Cruise movies, is very exciting, lots of grabbing the "key" and then a double cross and a steal back, and a pretty amazing scene with a train falling in a chasm. Of course the story is not resolved in this one, so if you love the Mission Impossible films, you are guaranteed at least one more.


Gamora is dead and the team is reeling from her loss. Rocket Raccoon gets knocked out, and we are able to see his entire original story, which is truly heartbreaking. A scientist who is experimenting on animals brings Rocket to life and he develops a group of friends in their incarceration. The crew discovers more who need them, and they fully engage in trying to save especially some humanoids on the planet Arete. While there are multiple storylines, it's a pretty engaging film and definitely a good additions to the Guardians franchise.








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