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  Clear and Present Danger 1994

  ★★★★ Rewatched 01 Dec 2023

  The existence of Henry Czerny (Kittridge/Ritter) in this movie implies this is a Mission Impossible prequel.

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  Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning 2023

  ★★★ Watched 30 Nov 2023

  So in this remake of The Lord of the Rings, the Entity/key is the One Ring. Everybody wants to use it for domination, except Ethan Hunt, our intrepid secret agent/hobbit. He only wants to destroy it. Ethan! Cast it into the fire! We must wait for The Return of the King (Part Two) to find out what stands in for Shelob, but my money’s on a nuclear bomb or two and lots of helicopters. Casting Hayley Atwell as Samwise Gamgee was a bold choice but ultimately successful. Just like Sam, she can’t drive a Fiat 500 but I salute her for even trying.

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  Mission: Impossible – Fallout 2018

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Nov 2023

  I like the highly meta scenes where Ethan Hunt stops running for quite a while to catch his breath, and stare in desperation at the extras surrounding him in London as if to silently scream “Help me. I can’t stop doing these movies”. The crowd can’t help him though, they wouldn’t even if they could, for his pain is our entertainment.

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