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Find and follow me — Maya_V_Strange
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
You ever see a movie that seems to be missing something? A thin line of invisible subtext that threads through what is otherwise an alright film, but is never acknowledged and explored? And when it doesn't pay off by the end, you realize that without that textual layer, the movie is pretty trash? And as taboo as it is to think it, you wonder if the director actually understood what their own work was about?
Or, in other words, Maud…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Here it is, the action movie we've apparently all been waiting for. While the trailers for this film didn't impress me, I've been hearing rave positive reviews for a while, so I gave it a shot. And it did not disappoint.
So Major Cage (Tom Cruise) is a military PR prettyboy who hasn't ever seen a day of combat in his life, which turns out to be pretty detrimental when he is thrown onto the front lines of humanity's war…