Admit One DailyProbably the last Quentin Tarantino film I really enjoyed, and I enjoyed this a lot. Not sure how well his style has aged, but at the time it felt refreshingly original and effortlessly cool.
The fact that the musical version of this film is still running in the West End 30 years later tells you everything you need to know.
Zemeckis and his team firing on all cylinders for this one. Pure filmmaking.
The film that made me cut my hair short.
Harrison Ford returns as the best Jack Ryan and once again doesn’t disappoint. Rewatched this recently and it still absolutely holds up.
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You know, for kids.
Meg Ryan as an alcoholic wife and mother would probably hit a lot harder for me now than it did in 1994. Back then booze just felt like something you did on a Friday and Saturday night rather than something that could properly derail people’s lives.
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I love this film, but Schwarzenegger never remotely convinces as an ordinary suburban husband. The whole joke is meant to be that he’s an unnoticed everyman living a secret life, when in reality he looks like he could bench press the family car. Still enormously entertaining though.
Like The Young Americans, this had all the gloss and energy of an American studio movie, just filtered through a very British, very mid-90s panic about ram-raiding, delinquency and disaffected youth.
We’re not going to be able to move for Beatles films when Sam Mendes’ Fab Four quadrilogy hits next year, but they’ll have to be good to top this early 90s take on the Hamburg years. And no one has ever out-Lennoned Ian Hart.
