For blockbuster season, read lackluster season. We’re barely halfway into the summer and a succession of big-budget expectations have come crashing down to earth. And, with franchises all but totally losing their shine, what’s left? At which point all eyes turn in the direction of the latest from a certain Mr Cruise. After last year’s triumph, surely he can hold on to his unofficial title of King Of Cinema, a movie star in the old-fashioned mould who champions the big screen experience. He can, can’t he?
Breathe a long sigh of relief. His reputation is intact with his latest outing as Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and we, at last, have the summer blockbuster we’ve all been waiting for. One with all the action, stunts and globetrotting that we expect, but also with its finger unexpectedly on the pulse.
