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He looks remarkably not-shot-or-even-tackled-to-the-ground-y.
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Update: absolutely amazing service from our supplier, Centravend. They got someone on-site in a couple of hours, determined that there would be several days until spares or another machine could be sourced, so had someone else on site in the afternoon deploying an alternative.
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That might actually have been before the opening titles.
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Last weekend during the McBane Event, Paul Macdonald's presentation on Lochabre Axes noted that Lord Breadalbane formed an entire regiment for a grand total of four days, for Queen Victoria's visit to Taymouth Castle. Bet even that looked more impressive.
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My problem with the bike-to-base-jump scene is not so much boredom, though. "He really did that in real life" means Cruise really did go off a cliff edge with a parachute, leaving a fueled motorcycle to crash into the landscape below, multiple times, which seems unnecessarily inconsiderate.
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At least with the bike-to-base-jump sequence in this one, it came in the second half of the film. In the previous movie, the outside-a-plane sequence was right at the start. If you came to see *that*, you could understandably feel the rest of the film was an anticlimax.
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"Wow, Ethan is not *really* going to do *that*, is he? That's mad!" becomes "so this is where the set-piece appears, huh? And we know exactly how this pans out. Zzzz."
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"He really did that, in real life. It's not CGI!" Well, great, but I've seen the footage of him *actually* doing it, with all the film crew around, and now I've *seen it* - that completely kills any excitement about the sequence in the film itself.
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And now I probably have to wait a year to find out whether Cruise fridges her in the next one (no spoilers, please).
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Hayley Atwell, though: glorious. Never get tired of watching her. Her character Grace would be an excellent person to pass the torch to.
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I’m a little surprised the humour wasn’t “aren’t you a little old for this kind of thing?” Maybe that’s in Final Reckoning.
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Props to Cruise for letting himself be the butt of some jokes, though he lacks the lightness of touch of, say, Brendan Fraser in THE MUMMY or Harrison Ford as Indy.
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The plot was…. Well, watch PERSON OF INTEREST to see it done much better and more thoughtfully.
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It really could have done with being an hour shorter.
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Reader, they were indeed flavoured like fried eggs.
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I compare this to the medical profession: when Harold Shipman was arrested in the UK for murdering patients, his colleagues did not say “how dare you hold us to account, one bad apple, etc.” no, they said “jail this monster, how can we help this never happen again?”
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Oh, I’m braced. That’s why it’s taken so long to get up the courage to read it. :-(
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Okay, I was always lost on that one, then; I’m not sure I’d interpreted it as being insincere (aside from context).
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But after that smoked-chilli pint, you might have a point.
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No, autocorrect, I did not mean “fecal”.
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This was the sentiment du jour.