Beyond its wadding of
auteurist interest, Crimewave is a singularly entertaining watch, a platform for its makers» most wildly unchecked, brazenly silly, excesses.
It's
interesting that the studio appears to have embraced the idea that this is an
auteurist Star Wars, however — those same fans might see it as Disney passing the buck and take it as ironic validation.
From Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion, a derivative film about derivatives, to the more or less solid
auteurist permutations of the Mission: Impossible franchise, the results have varied, but Cruise's reputation as the sort of star who can get moderately
interesting pulp bankrolled and realized by moderately
interesting talents has deservedly persisted.