Review Rewind

Six years after the mixed(but generally panned) MI2, J.J. Abrams takes a whack at the Ethan Hunt story. Was it a good change or does it self-destruct in five seconds?

• Director: J.J. Abrams
• Producer: Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner
• Screenwriter: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, J.J. Abrams
• Distributor: Paramount Pictures
• Production Co: Cruise-Wagner Productions, Paramount Pictures
• Rating: PG-13
• Genre: Action, Adventure
• Release Date (Theaters): May 5, 2006
• Budget: $150,000,000 (estimated)
• Gross US & Canada: $134,029,801
• Gross worldwide: $398,479,497
• Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames, Billy Crudup, Michelle Monaghan, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Keri Russell, Maggie Q, Laurence Fishburne

After the success of the Tom Cruise led reboot, director John Woo take the reigns in this 2000 sequel Mission: Impossible II - Does it hold up or does it fall flat? Will Mike and Tristan agree with the original reviews or find a fresh perspective?

• Director: John Woo
• Producer: Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner
• Screenwriter: Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore, Robert Towne
• Distributor: Paramount Pictures
• Production Co: Paramount Pictures, Cruise-Wagner Productions
• Rating: PG-13
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery & Thriller
• Release Date: May 24, 2000
• Budget: $125,000,000 (estimated)
• Gross US & Canada: $215,409,889
• Gross worldwide: $546,388,108
• Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandiwe Newton, Richard Roxburgh, John Polson, Brendan Gleeson, Rade Šerbedžija, Ving Rhames

Summer is here and the fellas accept the impossible mission of watching all 7 Mission: Impossible movies and see if they can rank them, if they hold up, or if they agree or disagree with the reviewers.

Mission: Impossible(1996)

• Director: Brian De Palma
• Producer: Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner
• Screenwriter: David Koepp, Robert Towne
• Production Co: Paramount Pictures, Cruise-Wagner Productions
• Rating: PG-13
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery & Thriller
• Release Date: May 22, 1996
• Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Henry Czerny, Emmanuelle Béart(B-R), Jean Reno, Ving Rhames, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave

HOLY SCHNIKES! It's been almost 30 years since this Chris Farley release so Mike and Tristan talk about the cult classic buddy comedy - Tommy Boy

• Director: Peter Segal
• Screenwriter: Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner
• Production Co: Paramount Pictures
• Rating: PG-13
• Genre: Comedy
• Release Date: Mar 31, 1995, 
• Runtime: 1h 38m
• Budget
• $20,000,000 (estimated)
• Gross US & Canada
• $32,679,899
• Gross worldwide
• Did not release international 
• Starring: Chris Farley, David Spade, Bo Derek, Brian Dennehy, Rob Lowe, Dan Aykroyd

Music By: David Newman

The world is covered in water and Mike and Tristan try to find land and talk about the 1995 blockbuster - Waterworld

Waterworld

• Director: Kevin Reynolds
• Producer: Charles Gordon, John Davis, Kevin Costner
• Screenwriter: Jonathan Levine, Peter Rader, David Twohy
• Production Co: Universal Pictures
• Rating: PG-13
• Genre: Sci-Fi, Action
• Release Date: Jul 28, 1995
• Budget: $175,000,000 (estimated)
• Gross US & Canada: $88,246,220
• Gross worldwide: $264,218,220
• Starring: Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tina Majorino, Michael Jeter

They fellas grow staches and awe in the wonder of Kurt Russell kicking ass. Well - that's kinda true. The check on the 1993 film Tombstone. 

Tombstone

• Director: George P. Cosmatos
• Producer: Sean Daniel, James Jacks, Bob Misiorowski
• Screenwriter: Kevin Jarre (The Mummy)
• Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, Hollywood Pictures
• Production Co: Hollywood Pictures
• Rating: R
• Genre: Western, Action
• Original LanguageEnglish
• Release Date: Dec 25, 1993
• Budget: $25,000,000 (estimated)
• Gross US & Canada: $56,505,065
• Gross worldwide: $56,505,065
• Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp
• Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday
• Sam Elliott as Virgil Earp
• Bill Paxton as Morgan Earp
• Powers Boothe as "Curly Bill" Brocius
• Michael Biehn as Johnny Ringo
• Charlton Heston as Henry Hooker

"second star to the right, and straight on till morning" as Mike and Tristan discuss Stephen Spielberg's take on Peter Pan with his 1991 film "Hook"

Hook

• Director: Steven Spielberg
• Producer: Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Gerald R. Molen
• Screenwriter: James V. Hart, Malia Scotch Marmo
• Distributor: TriStar Pictures
• Rating: PG
• Genre: Kids & Family, Fantasy, Adventure
• Release Date(Theaters): Dec 11, 1991
• Budget: $70,000,000 (estimated)
• Gross US & Canada: $119,654,823
• Gross worldwide: $300,854,823
• (Almost 700 million by today’s money)

• Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
• Producer: Steven Spielberg 
• Screenwriter: Lowell Cunningham(Comic Book), Ed Solomon 
• Staring: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Rip Torn
• Studio: Columbia(Sony) Pictures
• RatingPG-13
• Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
• Release Date (Theaters) July 4, 1997

• Director Stephen Sommers
• ProducerKevin Jarre
• ScreenwriterNina Wilcox Putnam, Richard Schayer, John L. Balderston, Stephen Sommers, Lloyd Fonvielle, Kevin Jarre, Stephen Sommers
• Staring:
• Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Kevin J. O'Connor, Jonathan Hyde, Oded Fehr, Erick Avari
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• Studio: Universal Pictures
• RatingPG-13
• GenreAdventure, Action, Fantasy
• Release Date (Theaters)May 7, 1999

• Director: Tamra Davis
• Screenwriter: Tim Herlihy, Adam Sandler
• Distributor: Universal Pictures
• Production: Universal Pictures, Robert Simonds Productions
• RatingPG-13
• Genre: Comedy
• Release Date (Theaters)Feb 10, 1995
• Budget: $10,000,000 (estimated)
• Gross US & Canada: $25,588,734
• Gross worldwide: $26,488,734