![]() There is a celebrated scene, when the women are forced to dance with the sex-starved outlaws, and it feels as if it might end in rape.Ī NEW LEAF (Eureka). ![]() Robert Ryan comes to the rescue of a small peaceful community (sixteen men, four women) who have been taken hostage by a bunch of outlaws led by a former cavalry officer (Burl Ives). Andre de Tooth’s superior B Western (released in 1957) is set in the remote, harsh and snowy mountains of Wyoming and is much admired by Western cognoscenti. There is an excellent dilemma, cleverly solved, when Cruise is faced with two assassins aiming their rifles at the Austrian Chancellor sitting in the royal box at the Vienna Opera House.and has to decide whom to shoot first.ĭAY OF THE OUTLAW (Eureka). The big set pieces on the outside of an areoplane and on the road (with motorbikes) raise the stakes. Director Christopher McQuarrie keeps the film moving. Nineteen years on, and at 53, some people may feel Tom Cruise is getting a bit old for this sort of thing but he gets on with it, does the stunts, and leaves the acting to Simon Pegg and Simon McBurney (who behaves as if he is in a Le Carre film). The espionage franchise, the fifth in the series, continues with total disregard for protocol and focuses on action. MISSION IMPOSSIBLE Rogue Nation (Paramount).
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