David Ellison

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)
Rating: ★★★
Aug 1, 2015Spy/Action Film
The Mission: Impossible films have become superbly polished vehicles with exotic locales, death-defying stuntwork and spectacular action sequences. This enacts it all well; the main problem is that Ghost Protocol is such a tough act to follow that this cannot help but fall in its shadow
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Geostorm (2017)

Geostorm (2017)
Rating: ★½
Dec 3, 2017Weather Control/Disaster Movie
Directorial debut of Roland Emmerich's regular screenwriter Dean Devlin who has clearly been given orders to make another Emmerich film. Thus we get all the same effects-driven mass destruction spectacle, absurd science and pro-environmental messages
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Gemini Man (2019)

Gemini Man (2019)
Rating: ★★★
Dec 7, 2019Assassin Fights a Clone of Himself
Ang Lee dips his feet into the action genre in a conceptually fascinating work where assassin Will Smith facies a younger clone of himself. Smith's performance and the effects used to de-age his double are top-notch
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Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
Rating: ★★
Jan 25, 2020Time-Travelling Killer Androids
The sixth Terminator film that boasts the return of both James Cameron and Linda Hamilton to the franchise. After the troughs of Terminator: Genisys, this makes one forget about the last three sequels
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The Gorge (2025)

The Gorge (2025)
Rating: ★★★★
Feb 22, 2025The Guardtowers Above a Valley of Monsters
Scott Derrickson film with a captivatingly original premise - a sniper is assigned to a guardhouse overlooking a gorge filled with mysterious monsters and ends up in a forbidden relationship with his counterpart across the divide
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Fountain of Youth (2025)

Fountain of Youth (2025)
Rating: ★★
Jun 6, 2025Quest for the Fountain of Youth/Adventure Film
Guy Ritchie makes an adventure film that pays homage to Indiana Jones and a host of other works concerning the quest for the Fountain of Youth. A superficial film killed by its constantly distracting flip banter
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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)
Rating: ★★½
Sep 13, 2025Spy/Action Film
The eighth of the Mission: Impossible films. The previous entry Dead Reckoning was a high point in the series and this is left wrapping up the storyline in what would appear to be Tom Cruise’s final outing for the series
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