The visuals are much livelier (the production was designed by Darren Gilford and photographed by Claudio Miranda) and there's always Mr. Cruise, bright-eyed and intense, though he looks silly enough at certain points in Jack's exertions pointing his gun at every suspect sound, piloting his ship with "Top Gun" panache in a "Star Wars" chase to make you wonder if the filmmakers were intentionally flirting with self-parody.
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