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Awix (3310 KP) rated Biggles (1986) in Movies

Mar 28, 2018 (Updated Mar 28, 2018)

Biggles (1986)

1986 | Adventure, Sci-Fi

5.4

(9 Ratings)

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Biggles Cocks It Up

Startlingly incompetent big-screen version of the classic boy's-adventure hero. New York yuppie discovers he is 'time twin' of First World War fighter ace, is plucked back through time to help him destroy a German secret weapon. Don't worry, it doesn't make any more sense in the actual movie.

Potentially charming adventure movie is utterly torpedoed by fatal uncertainty of tone; what started off as a 'straight' period movie is reduced to gibberish by the addition of witless time-travel plotline, which drags crass 80s 'comedy' bits in with it. The fact it largely seems to be the work of people who've never actually seen a film before, let alone worked on one, is the just the coup de grace. Even Peter Cushing's usual near-supernatural ability to lift a dubious script mostly fails him; no wonder this was his final (non-CGI) big-screen appearance. Soundtrack contains Queen bassist John Deacon's only recordings away from the band; this is almost certainly not a good enough reason to watch the damn thing.

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Goldenarrow74 (10 KP) rated Top Secret! (1984) in Movies

Jun 3, 2018

Silly visual gags. Val Kilmer’s babysoft skin. (0 more)

There are so many quick one liners and puns it’s easy to miss some. (0 more)

Indiana Jones meets James Bond meets Airplane

Having watched this many, many times in my youth, it was a bit of a delight to revisit this and still find myself thoroughly entertained.

Like Indiana Jones, meets James Bond, meets National Lampoon, meets Rocky Horror. Only this time its spies that are being spoofed.

In fact this viewing probably revealed more jokes that I wouldn’t have even fully understood before.

Daisy’s careful infiltration of the German stronghold was wonderfully ludicrous. With her welly-boots and polka dot hide, the guards stood no chance of spotting her as different to the rest of the herd.

One of the most memorable bar-room-brawls ever tales place towards the end between Nigel and Nick... under the surface of a lake.
Not only do we get treated to chairs smashed over heads we even get a glimpse of the Ali Shuffle, all fully submerged.

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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) in Movies

Apr 8, 2020

Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)

2000 | Action, Mystery

5.6

(19 Ratings)

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Flaming Birds

Mission: impossible II- this is a strange sequel, on one hand its good, on the other its bad. So lets call it in the middle, good but bad. Tom Cruise and Ving Rhames both return. I like how each movie is directed by a different director. The first one was Brain De Palma so his take was putting spy, suspense and thrills in the first one. In this one John Woo directs it. That means alot of slow-mo, birds, and that pretty much it.

The plot: Tom Cruise returns to his role as Ethan Hunt in the second installment of "Mission: Impossible." This time Ethan Hunt leads his IMF team on a mission to capture a deadly German virus before it is released by terrorists. His mission is made impossible due to the fact that he is not the only person after samples of the disease. He must also contest with a gang of international terrorists headed by a turned bad former IMF agent who has already managed to steal the cure.

Its good, but the first one was better.