franceshugg777

Seems just a hyped up re-run of the first movie with the assignment for this time to hit the weak point on the Death Star and destroy it. A better film about true heroes taking terrible chances is The Right Stuff. All this flick has lissome very good flight cinematography and Tom Cruise splaying the same role he usually plays, which is starting to get a little boring after all of ththese years. The scenes of the air craft carrier and the bar all of the pilots frequent also has better scenes in The Right Stuff while Sam Sheppard plays Chuck Yeager and the in that scene the real Chuck Yeager is bartender! Nobody can improve on that--the real hero who first went where no one had gone before is in the movie! This flick doesn't have a single original idea. What a disappointment!

The ultimate Phantom performance--it was just fantastic to watch! Having seen the New York touring company live on stage in Pittsburgh, the movie with Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum, listened to the Michael Crawfor version of the musical, and then seen this production, I can say that although I loved the Michael Crawford on audio, I just loved this version, too. The Pittsburgh version had an Italian opera singer as Pantom, which just didn't really do the role justice, but all of the roles were just played by excellent performers in this version.