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Tenebre 1982
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Tenebrae commits itself to being an exercise in misdirection. It opens with Peter Neal riding a bike through San Francisco, but he swaps it for at the airport for his baggage that's been driven there by his chauffeur. He starts off in a tracksuit but changes into a sports coat. Later, when his assistant Anne leaves the apartment in Rome the camera pans to a very shiny and pointy metal sculpture that then has no further part in the story.…
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Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol 2011
High-rise high tension, but my baseline anticipation and suspense was waiting for Luther to show up.
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Streets of Fire 1984
Streets of Fire has the courage to show us entire songs on stage with an electric Diane Lane, it lets Michael Paré pretend he’s Michael Biehn from Terminator, it gives Willem Dafoe enough space to basically be a vampire, and it makes Amy Madigan the sassy trusty sidekick who needs her own movie.
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