

Involvement in the story is what really makes or breaks the action, and Indiana Jones is a reliable old friend who screws up sometimes, and shows his age. “Realness” may seem super-important to stunt people, but it’s hardly the primary narrative concern – cartoons are as unreal as it gets, yet you’ve probably shed tears over the fates of Pixar characters. M:I’s train sequence is the better one, but not as exponentially better as perhaps one might think. Indy’s is drenched in layers of CG and shot in front of obvious bluescreen Ethan Hunt’s has Tom Cruise and Esai Morales actually running and crouching atop a real train (though the grand finale, with carriages falling off a bridge one by one, is almost certainly studio-shot and computer abetted).


(Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One opens in US theaters on July 12.)īoth Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One feature key action sequences set on moving trains. He last provided us with what we still consider the best and most truthful review of Top Gun: Maverick that you’ll find anywhere. In other words, Luke calls them the way he sees them. Our association with Luke goes back more than 20 years, to a now defunct publication, New Times Los Angeles, where he was one of the very few reviewers in the country who actually liked John Travolta’s Battlefield Earth. Thompson (AV Club) has given us an exclusive film review you’ll find only here at the Bunker. Your free trial comes with a copy of our step-by-step Leader's Guide to accompany The Book of James series.Once again Luke Y. James writes to believers who know suffering, who've faced trials, and who ultimately desire a deep relationship with God. The book of James speaks to the realities of a living faith in Jesus-the kind of roll-up-your-sleeves and get-your-hands-dirty discipleship that is borne out of an authentic relationship with the risen Lord.

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