Gigawatt Conduit

2 weeks ago | letterboxd.com | Gigawatt Conduit |Christopher McQuarrie |Justin Carter

★★★★ Christopher McQuarrie might’ve peaked as a writer/director for these movies with Fallout, which had the strongest flow between stories, vibes, and action of his Mission movies. Of the four, Final Reckoning might be the weakest of the bunch. Some of that’s owed to how much it wants to thumb back through the series’ history, which quickly feels like it’s stopping the movie’s momentum thanks to repeatedly employing dialogue and archive footage from those earlier films. Other times, the film...

3 weeks ago | letterboxd.com | Gigawatt Conduit |John Woo |Justin Carter

★★★ I don’t know if there’s a capital-B bad Mission Impossible movie, and I understand this one’s got some hard defenders, but I don’t think this one makes the best case for itself? Woo shoots the heck out of it and Cruise has solid chemistry with Newton, but it doesn’t have the full juice for the slow burn romance/thriller energy it’s trying to channel, and Sydney just isn’t much of an interesting location to stage all this. There’s some charm here; the back half is fun, the mask reveals are...