Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

The artificial intelligence known as ‘The Entity’ has slowly but surely taken over cyberspace since the events of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning. Truth no longer exists and political and social stability is collapsing. Can Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team stop ‘The Entity’ before it takes control of the world’s nuclear missile arsenal?  … Continue reading Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

Havoc

Hard-bitten cop Walker (Tom Hardy) tries to track down the son of an important politician before the Triads and a group of corrupt cops get their hands on him.  Havoc is unfortunately a rather large misfire from Welsh writer/director Gareth Evans who brought us the rather exceptional The Raid and The Raid 2. Unless that … Continue reading Havoc

Thunderbolts*

A group of misfits band together and form bonds of friendship when they find themselves pitted against each other in a deadly trap. Led by former Black Widow Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) they find themselves tackling a new threat spreading across Manhattan.  Thunderbolts* takes a gaggle of B and C list heroes and villains and … Continue reading Thunderbolts*

The Amateur

When CIA analyst Charles Heller’s (Rami Malek) wife Sarah (Rachel Brosnahan) is killed in a terrorist attack he asks his supervisors if he can be trained to go after them himself. After he is denied he decides to blackmail them into gaining his opportunity. But can a man with zero killer instinct really take down … Continue reading The Amateur

The Accountant

Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is many things; An accountant who works for unscrupulous clients unravelling impossibly complex financial books in incredibly quick times, a trained killer, and a highly functioning autistic person with specific routines to manage his condition.  Nine years on from The Accountant’s original release it is time to reassess my thoughts, especially … Continue reading The Accountant