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Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn and Al talk about the eight-film action series that launched in 1996 (based on the 1966 TV series) in light of its apparently final film.
Is this a coherent narrative as the last film would have you believe, or just an excuse for a series of Tom Cruise physically challenges? Maybe the latter is enough for us!
Did you know that the co-writer/director for the latter films, Christopher McQuarrie, wrote The Usual Suspects? So there is a possibility for brilliant plotting and interesting dialogue, but does any of that appear in this series?
Read the Christopher McQuarrie interview about the new film.
Here’s the Limp Bizkit song from MI2 that we refer to, and here is the film’s dumbest scene.
Follow us @law_writes, @sarahlynbruck, @MarkLinsenmayer. Al lives a hidden, danger-filled life for which he will never be thanked.
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