This movie made me feel insane. Tedious scene after scene that seems to only exist to plant a seed for a narrative or emotional payoff later but when they come it's all the equivalent of, "How did he get that scar he's lied about?" "Oh, he accidentally cut it on a fence." Okaaaaaay. From the poster I thought it was going to be about Tom Hiddleston's life but his entire contribution is basically a 25 minute 90s Gap khakis ad…

Contains sequences that are surely at the pinnacle of the franchise and a first hour that surely represents the nadir. In fact, every expository dialogue sequence is like nails on a chalkboard, but when people stop talking and move into action, McQuarrie goes God mode. I found the submarine sequence to be almost unbearably tense and effective. And the biplane stuff is truly mind-blowing. I will forgive all for experiences at the movies like that.

And I want to mention…

Hey! I directed this movie. We shot it in the Spring of 2019 and had hoped to play at film festivals and get released in 2020 but a pandemic happened and changed everything. For a while, we weren't sure if we could release the movie at all. It was all of a sudden something completely different than we ever intended it to be now that the world was actually experiencing what was meant to be science fiction in our film.…

True story:

When this film first came out, I was in a long distance relationship and we decided to see showings of it at the same time in our separate cities as a "movie date" and call each other after to talk. I hated the film so much, I walked out after 40 minutes and patiently waited another hour before calling. When I did, my girlfriend answered the phone sobbing, having been completely emotionally shattered by it. In fact, she…