In short, this movie was much better than I expected. My family decided to do the Christmas Day movie thing this year since we celebrated heavier on Christmas Eve (at least I did). There wasn’t really anything in theaters that I was excited about. My mother suggested the new Mission Impossible. I thought the first one was decent. The second one sucked. So bad, in fact, that I completely skipped the third one. I decided to suck it up because family time is important. Oh, and it was free.
The new one is directed by Brad Bird…who confuses me. His repertoire consists of a handful of episodes of The Simpsons, Disney and Pixar’s Ratatoullie and The Incredibles and now Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. I’m thinking an animated film about the Holocaust is his next best bet. IMDb tells me that Continue reading
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