What ‘Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One’ Says About the State of Action Movies. Plus, Checking in on ‘Hijack’ and ‘Full Circle.’
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Do I Just Not Care About Action Sequences Anymore?
There was a huge shift both in the type of movies they were making and I think the general vibe of them. And I think that actually speaks to your original question, which is did the movies get appreciably better? Or did they just maintain a level of quality that made them outliers increasingly? So I'm not sure. But my experience going whiplashing from Dial of Destiny to Dead Reckoning was really remarkable - but when I was watching Dial of Destiny and there's car chase after car chase and I feel nothing. He says he feels like Amanda calls him CR sometimes.
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