Ultra HD Blu-ray Movie Reviews

With this concluding installment in the popular Mission: Impossible film series, writer/director Christopher McQuarrie and his co-scribe Erik Jendresen seem hellbent on testing the limits of how much story they can pack into 170 minutes, and this is dovetailing off the almost-as-long setup of 2023’s Dead Reckoning.

Would-be family guy Hutch Mansell is unavoidably back to his ultraviolent old ways, conspicuously absent from the dinner table as he accepts a string of incredibly dangerous, top-secret government “assignments” to pay off a massive debt incurred back in the first movie.

M3gan 2.0 takes place two years after the events of M3gan, a marvel of artificial intelligence, that went rogue, and embarked on a murderous rampage. In this sequel, its creator, Gemma, has become an advocate for government oversight of AI. Unbeknownst to her, a defense contractor has created a military-grade weapon known as Amelia, the ultimate infiltration spy.

Watching James Gunn’s Superman, I’m reminded of the expression, “That was a choice,” although I don’t mean it in the sarcastic, millennial way. There have been so many interpretations of the chap in blue tights and red cape, in the comic book pages and on screen and elsewhere, each unique in some way.