Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Brad Bird

Written by: Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec

Starring: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Paula Patton, Josh Holloway, Michael Nyqvist, Vladimir Mashkov, Lea Seydoux, Anil Kapoor

Runtime: 132 min

This is not just another mission. The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in a global terrorist bombing plot. Ghost Protocol is initiated, and Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his rogue new team must go undercover to clear their organization's name. No help, no contact, off the grid. You have never seen a mission grittier and more intense than this.

Brad Bird is the director, and Jeremy Renner (William Brandt) is one of the new additions to an already recognizable cast.

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Mission: Impossible III (2006) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Mission: Impossible III (2006) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: J. J. Abrams

Written by: J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci

Starring: Tom Cruise, Michelle Monaghan, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames, Billy Crudup, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Keri Russell, Simon Pegg, Maggie Q, Laurence Fishburne

Runtime: 127 min

The third entry in the Mission: Impossible film series involves Impossible Mission Forces (IMF) agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) being forced back into the field just when he was planning on marrying his girlfriend, Julia (Michelle Monaghan).

His mission, should he choose to accept it, is to capture Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a dangerous weapons dealer who is selling a toxic weapon. Eventually, Davian makes things personal, and Hunt has to protect the ones he cares about.

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Mission: Impossible II (2000) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Mission: Impossible II (2000) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: John Woo

Written by: William Goldman, John Logan, David Marconi, Michael Tolkin, Robert Towne, Rick Berman

Starring: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton, Ving Rhames, Brendan Gleeson, Dominic Purcell

Runtime: 123 min

Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt, an operative for the top-secret government agency IMF (Impossible Missions Force). Fellow agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) has gone rogue, stealing a sample of a deadly synthetic virus named Chimera that could rapidly wipe out the world's population.

Ethan is assigned to recruit the help of Ambrose's former lover Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Thandie Newton), who may be able to quickly regain his confidence. Sophisticated disguises, gun battles, and high-speed chases are the order of the day ...

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Mission: Impossible (1996) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Mission: Impossible (1996) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Brian DePalma

Written by: Robert Towne, David Koepp, Steven Zaillian, Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz

Starring: Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Jean Reno, Emmanuelle Béart, Henry Czerny, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave, Emilio Estevez

Runtime: 110 min

Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is a secret agent framed for the death of several comrades and falsely branded a traitor, who embarks on a daring scheme to clear his name in this spy adventure.

Fleeing from government assassins, breaking into the CIA's most impenetrable vault, clinging to the roof of a speeding bullet train ... Hunt races like a burning fuse to stay one step ahead of his pursuers and draw one step closer to discovering the shocking truth.

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I Kill Giants (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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I Kill Giants (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Anders Walter

Written by: Joe Kelly

Starring: Madison Wolfe, Zoe Saldana, Imogen Poots, Sydney Wade, Jennifer Ehle

Runtime: 104 min

An oddball girl named Barbara Thorson (Madison Wolfe) regularly brings a Noerse warhammer to her middle school and has a detailed imaginary life in which she is a skilled giant killer.

Anders Walter's film is based on Joe Kelly and Ken Niimura's acclaimed graphic novel of the same name.

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Deadpool 2 (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Deadpool 2 (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: David Leitch

Written by: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Ryan Reynolds

Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Josh Brolin, Zazie Beetz, T.J. Miller, Julian Dennison, Terry Crews, Bill Skarsgård, Brianna Hildebrand

Runtime: 119 min

After surviving a near-fatal bovine attack, a disfigured cafeteria chef (Wade Wilson) struggles to fulfill his dream of becoming Miami's hottest bartender, while also learning to cope with his lost sense of taste.

Searching to regain his spice for life, as well as a flux capacitor, Wade (Ryan Reynolds) must battle ninjas, the yakuza, and a pack of sexually aggressive canines, as he journeys around the world to discover the importance of family, friendship, and flavor - finding a new taste for adventure and earning the coveted coffee mug title of World's Best Lover.

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Death Wish (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Death Wish (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Eli Roth

Written by: Joe Carnahan

Starring: Bruce Willis, Vincent D'Onofrio, Elisabeth Shue, Camila Morrone, Dean Norris, Kimberly Elise

Runtime: 108 min

Dr. Paul Kersey (Bruce Willis) is a surgeon who only sees the aftermath of his city's violence as it's rushed into his ER. When his wife (Elisabeth Shue) and college-age daughter (Camila Morrone) are viciously attacked in their suburban home, Paul, burning for revenge, hunts for his family's assailants to deliver justice.

As the anonymous slayings of criminals grab the media's attention, the city wonders if this deadly avenger is a guardian angel ... or a grim reaper.

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Rampage (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Rampage (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Brad Peyton

Written by: Ryan Engle, Carlton Cuse, Ryan Condal, Adam Sztykiel

Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Jake Lacy, Joe Manganiello, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, P.J. Byrne, Marley Shelton, Breanne Hill, Jack Quaid

Runtime: 115 min

Primatologist Davis Okoye (Johnson), a man who keeps people at a distance, shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size. To make matters worse, it's soon discovered there are other similarly altered animals.

As these newly created alpha predators tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but to save the fearsome creature that was once his friend.

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Ready Player One (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Ready Player One (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Steven Spielberg

Written by: Zak Penn, Ernest Cline

Starring: Tye Sheridan, Ben Mendelsohn, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, Olivia Cooke, Lena Waithe

Runtime: 140 min

In the year 2045, people can escape their harsh reality in the OASIS, an immersive virtual world where you can go anywhere, do anything, be anyone ... The only limits are your own imagination. OASIS creator James Halliday (Mark Rylance) left his immense fortune and control of the OASIS to the winner of a contest designed to find a worthy heir.

When unlikely hero Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) conquers the first challenge of the reality-bending treasure hunt, he and his friends are hurled into a fantastical universe of discovery and danger to save the OASIS and their world.

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Tomb Raider (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Tomb Raider (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Roar Uthaug

Written by: Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Alastair Siddons

Starring: Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu

Runtime: 122 min

Alicia Vikander (Lara Croft) is the new face of the Tomb Raider's franchise reboot and it is going to be based on the critically acclaimed video-games.

This first installment is an adaptation of the 2013 game and it tells the story of Lara Croft, a young woman who lost her father when she was a teen. Struggling to move past his mysterious disappearance, she leaves everything behind and goes looking for him in his last-known (dangerous) location: a famous tomb on a mythical island ...

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