The kid spent the night at a friends house, so the wife and I had the chance for the first time in a million years to watch a grown-up movie together and this was it…
Great flick! Perfect? Nope. Good, sometimes really good? Yep! Definitely a fun ride. The camera work gets in the way a bit. It’s pretty obvious when they are trying to catch a frenzied situation because the camera work shakes and rapidly zooms in or out. Not an uncommon technique these days, but is executed a bit clumsily in this movie at times.
This was a good Tom Cruise mainly because Tom Cruise was not being Tom Cruise or, perhaps a better way to put it, was not being utilized as Tom Cruise THE NAME…if that makes any sense. It was an over-the-top character played by a pretty reserved and calculated Tom Cruise. I thought he did a fantastic job. As a Southerner, myself, his dialect wasn’t always perfect but as we say in Texas, “His dialect wasn’t perfect, but so what.”
Also, I must say I was surprised how much this movie took place in Nicaragua and Mena, Arkansas. Not only did my family live in Nicaragua for a year, but when we moved back to the states we ended up living for 3 years in Waldron, Arkansas which is about 25 miles north of Mena.
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