I love reading, watching and listening to film reviews. But today’s review of MI3 in The Guardian is staggering for just how bad it is. I don’t really like Peter Bradshaw but then I don’t dislike him either. Overall he’s got reasonable taste in taste in films, but his review today is so far off-beam that I’ve got to comment on it.
He gives the film one star and spends a large part of the review slagging off Tom Cruise. I don’t exactly hold a torch for him, since Scientology, in my book, is exactly what you would come up with if you were a hack SF writer looking to start a religion (that episode of South Park was excellent, and if you haven’t already, the Rolling Stone Scientology article, reprinted in The Observer, of a couple of months ago is well worth your time).
However, the film really isn’t that bad. I wouldn’t give it five stars – but as blockbusters go, it’s ahead of most. Over in The Independent, Robert Hanks gave the film four stars and offers what I consider is a very fair review.
I think the problem is that Peter Bradshaw is slowly becoming a carcicature of himself. Recent letter writers have questioned whether Bradshaw actually likes watching films. That’s a fair question…