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The first M:I film remains the best, with GHOST PROTOCOL a very close second.
+1. I like the third because of Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Best villain of the series (for me). PSH gone too soon.
I agree, he was one of the most interesting and well performed M:I villains. While I'm not all that crazy about III, the bridge battle and the Vatican sequence are both pretty cool too.
This was an aspect of the films I enjoyed too, but I guess Cruise has found his "guy."
There is some real excellence in Fallout, including the London chase and the helicopter battle. But personally I find the film overly long and overly serious and can't enjoy it or appreciate it the way I do the other two you mentioned.
Of course, Bond has had great action but those setpieces aren't huge focal points for the movie and its marketing campaign.
Bond usually tends to focus much more on characters, locations, costuming, cars, gadgets whereas Mission Impossible films really are basically all about the action.
And I mean that quite literally as Cruise and company have gone on the record about developing the sequences first and then rewriting the story while filming to juggle them all together.
Cruise is an absolute nutter, but I can't fault his dedication to giving his audience entertainment.
Yeah I do think the tension of that whole sequence is what makes it, even beyond the actual stuntwork (although seeing that's it's clearly real also adds to the tension). I think I literally was on the edge of my seat for that one.
Amazing to think we were waiting for this before NTTD came out.
Most of the delays I saw were due to the constant coronavirus surges, and I'm sure filming M:I7 and 8 back-to-back didn't help things.
I thought the same on Fallout. Part of the problem was the drama seemed overdone and the finale was rather predictable. I knew that would just happen to be the camp Julia would be at, that there would be yet another impossible countdown, that Benji would be in over his head and endangered, that Luther would get frustrated trying to stop the bomb, etc. And the end confrontation with Cruise and Cavill drug out to the point I just wanted it to be over. Less can be more sometimes, Tom.
Agreed.
This.
I generally don't agree with Cruise's private choices--actually, I have no business agreeing or disagreeing with the man's private life--but he's a committed actor who's willing to turn Hollywood make-belief into hardcore reality. I also think he's a really good actor, period. And he's built something awesome with these M:I films. One day people will look back on his career and realise that Tom Cruise gave his heart and soul to a physically challenging, eight-film series, spanning almost 30 years of his life. I still think all his efforts, commitment and crazy, risky stuntwork are often overlooked. It's Tom, we expect nothing less. But actually, this guy is doing way more than most actors, who comfortably slide into a role when the paycheck looks good and the stunt doubles take over before a little nose bleed is risked. Yes, he's nuts. But he also deserves way more credit than people are usually willing to give him. This man persistently defies the quintessential cliché of the actor who portrays a hero yet is afraid of falling and hurting a knee. Cruise takes the risks, no doubt to satisfy his ego, but also for our entertainment. When did Vin Diesel take those helicopter lessons again? When was Seagal actually hanging from a flying plane? Exactly.
I don't think that big boy needs any help in this regard.
I remember watching an interview where Timothy Dalton talked about stunts in his Bond films, especially after the use of (sometimes noticeable) doubles during the Moore era. He said you don't want the audience to think "that's a stunt double". Equally you don't want them to think "that's Timothy Dalton (or in this case Tom Cruise) doing a stunt, that's cool!" They should think "that's James Bond/Ethan Hunt in a perilous situation."
Of course, I'm infinitely more excited for these next two M:I installments and am desperately eager to get a teaser for 7 at least sometime soon. It's nice knowing we'll have a trailer before the year's out and it's almost May already. I can't wait.
I guess I may need to revisit the first one to understand everything that goes on in this one though (although I guess it'll disappear off to Paramount+ imminently)