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In 2000, Christopher McQuarrie was riding high on the success of his Oscar nominated screenplay The Usual Suspects, but he was unable to convince anyone to let him direct. At the urging of star Benicio del Toro, he wrote another crime screenplay and made it on the cheap on the condition that he a) could direct and b) had final cut.
That movie is The Way of the Gun.
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It’s the beginning of the end as Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise debut Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.
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Tom Cruise has played many action roles in the past. So how does he fare in the latest crime film from writer/director Christopher McQuarrie?
Let’s bitch it out… [Read more…]