Five Word Reviews

Well, with today's opening of Mission: Impossible III the 2006 summer blockbuster season gets into full swing. That means that every weekend from now until August, at least one new movie will open amid deafening fanfare and will then quickly be revealed (usually in five short words) as a stupid, listless bore. But maybe this year will be different. Then again, maybe it won't. Yeah, it probably won't.

We'll have to wait and see. But at least the first summer popcorn flick out of the gate manages not to stink, despite the increasingly pungent presence of one Tom "I've Done the Reading" Cruise as its star. And there's one late spring holdover that ought not to be missed. Here again, the five word movie reviews.

MI:III - Hoffman Dulls Pain Of Cruise
Akeelah and the Bee - A Great Family Movie. F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C