It's been a while since since Star Trek has been worth paying attention. Pretty much since "Deep Space Nine" ended, it's been a series of mediocre television shows ("Voyager" and "Enterprise") and a bad movie ("Nemesis"). This new film, which takes the series back to its beginnings, looks pretty damn good.
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By Scott A. Rosenberg
scott.rosenberg@am-ny.com
Who has time to see movies? If you're busy like me, you don't often make it to the movie theater that often. But that shouldn't stop me from reviewing movies. In this new reoccurring feature, The Tangent will be judging movies based on their trailers.
Valkyrie - opening Dec. 26. Directed by Bryan Singer. Starring Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson and Carice Van Houten.
Loose plot: Spy pirates try to save Europe from Nazis? I'm not really sure.
Following up on his comedic role in "Tropic Thunder," Tom Cruise returns with ... Nazis. Yeah. "Valkyrie" has the same tone of the "Mission Impossible" flicks and it seems to fail as a period war piece - everyone sounds like an American, even the Brits. But the film does have all the requisite explosions to capture my attention, plus Cruise wears an eye patch for most of the trailer, and that makes me think of pirates. 2.5 stars out of 4.
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