Standard (recent) Tom Cruise

Rating: 7/10 (26 February 2014)

Your usual hero-like personality faces the impossible to liberate the innocents from an unfair fate.
A movie in perfect agreement with the Tom Cruise standard of the last few years (Oblivion, Knight and day, War of the worlds ... with a few very rare exceptions of course, say.. Collateral). Clean, benign, quick, vindictive, with a liberating outcome. Not below its expectations, but then again, not a source for very high or impressive expectations and definitely not a source of echoes of past successes. Perfect for a relaxing evening while waiting for a new Jack Ryan (questionable), James Bond or Jason Bourne (I could mention Ethan Hunt, but according to the above mentioned rules, recent impossible missions are unfortunately indulging the described standard). Also, a very surprising (and inexplicable) contribution from an evil Werner Herzog