There's no denying that J.J. Abrams was tailor - made for the job of reviving the «Mission: Impossible» franchise, what with his past experience turning Jennifer Garner into TV's favorite super spy, and if it's any consolation to fans of the soon - to - be-cancelled ABC series, the director's
big screen debut feels exactly like «Alias: The Movie.»
Not exact matches
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, David Cronenberg should be
feeling pretty chuffed with son Brandon's
big -
screen debut, a petri dish of high - concept perversity and cultural commentary teeming with lo - fi ickiness.
Nearly 25 years after the sitcom
debuted, Edina and Patsy arrive on the
big screen to continue their drunken antics, although without the usual enthusiastic laugh - track everything
feels eerily muted.
Like fellow TV legend J.J. Abrams on «Mission: Impossible III,» Whedon's
big -
screen debut, «Serenity» had its moments, but
felt more like television than a movie.
Mostly, though, the surveillance camera - style footage and the sense of being an unseen observer of other people's movements make me think of the early days of the «reality» TV show
Big Brother (the show's UK
debut was in 2000) and, in particular, the uneasy
feeling that to watch meant being complicit in the game of control and manipulation playing out on the
screen.