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Glad you liked it. The whole train sequence was honestly mesmerizing.
Lots of Bond homages too.
Unfortunately, boxoffice is not looking that good folks.
I enjoyed it once more. It's exciting, funny and relentlessly paced for a film of its length.
The film tells us that Grace is being offered a choice to join the IMF; why wasn't Ilsa? She was a disavowed agent with more use to the team on the previous missions, yet the idea of giving her a choice never came up. It's very mediocre writing and I'm quite surprised McQuarrie went that route.
I'm still not best pleased with what they did with Ilsa either, ultimately. What a wasteful end. There's no way that's a fake-out death either.
On the plus side, I enjoyed the villains a lot more this time and I think Pom Klementieff is quite outstanding. She has a wonderful villain's face. Cold eyes and unorthodox beauty.
This one will likely settle below the previous three films for me. It's still a good film with a large number of incredible attributes but the second viewing cemented the issues I had with it.
Still excited for Part 2.
Unfortunately for the 2h49min film at about 20 minutes from the end
Likely to catch up with the ending later on streaming, not the theater's fault and I choose not to sit through the previous couple hours a second time. A true cliff-hanger for us.
Non-spoiler version: Go see it in the theatre.
Spoiler version:
1. This is what the Bond films used to be.
2. This is a feature length (over-length), feature budget season finale of a TV show
The best action production team in the world with the best stunt and effects team in the world putting together some fantastic set-pieces held together with an absolutely hokum plot, very questionable dialogue delivered by very, very good actors and about a trope a minute.
To get back to my opening for this: I had a lot of fun and everyone should go see it. I also think every scene that isn’t an action scene is pretty much bad and the filmmakers know and don’t care and neither should audiences. Take the major exposition scene in the beginning: It’s Indira Varma, Charles Parnell, Mark Gatiss (!) and Rob Delaney (!!) shot in Dutch angles spouting absolute nonsense to Cary Elwes only to get Knock-out gassed by Hunt in a mask (wearing another mask) so he can have a conversation with Henry Czerny. It’s incredible in every possible sense of the word.
To go on with the point about this being what Bond films used to be: Oh my god is this film a middle finger to Eon. All that’s left would be for Chris McQuarry to write „Look what you could be!“ on an envelope with a BluRay of this film and handing it to BB and MGW. Some of these sections are pure Roger Moore slapstick action, down to the small yellow car, while handily one-upping that other Rome car chase and credibly trying to give John Wick a run for his money here and there (and not really succeeding, but only barely). Any holdups there might still have been about Austin Powers and 60 years of these films having oversaturated every possible plot point and turn: Throw it all out the window. Everything in this film is exactly as you would expect it and it still works. Pom Klementieff‘s character is basically Jaws and she’s perfect. Shea Wigham and Greg Davis are a duo of bumbling law men hunting our hero but in the end turn around to help him and they are perfect. I hope Vanessa Kirby can still be in a Bond film after this, because her several layers of work here are great (and yes, the White Widow is just about exactly what you expect the arms dealer character to be). Same for Hayley Atwell, who is basically doing 70s or 80s Bond girl mixed with every female lead who came into a TV show in Season 4 to replace the previous lead.
I am in free association mode and just rambling. Again, I had incredible fun. The film is incredibly flawed. It doesn’t matter.
Someone said it somewhere else, but it is a real shame how utterly uninterested in or incapable of any kind of sex appeal these late Tom Cruise/M:I films are and something even the bad Bond films still beat them handily.
It’ll probably do fine as any of the M:I. I think people wildly overestimated how well it would do based on TOP GUN: MAVERICK. Despite having the same star, people flocked to that film for different reasons than they would have for another MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE.
I agree with everything you said, my friend. I enjoyed it, but not as much as Fallout. Even in the cinematography department, Fallout wins with its desaturated 90's thriller look. It has the better soundtrack too. And none beats the DePalma first film in its suspense and intrigue. And nothing really surprised me in DRp1. Everything was expected, no twist really got to me. The writing was frankly very poor, with exposition after exposition. I loved the Fiat500 chase, though. Best part of the movie, for me. But
And, for me, as of now, the ranking is:
M:I
Fallout
Ghost Protocol/Rogue Nation
Dead Reckoning
M:I2/M:I3
But I like them all. It's not as though the last ones on the list are even remotely bad. They all have been consistently entertaining and very good productions.
Looking now for a $70-75M 5-days.
John Wick 4 did $73.8M 3-days.
Damn.
The worst thing you could do these days for a movie is rely mostly on “””old””” white people. EoN must find a way to initiate a wider demographic with Bond for the next one.
When I went to see Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny with six other people - mostly family - not one of them wanted to go with me a couple of weeks later to see MI:7. Because Ethan Hunt is not an icon, like Indiana Jones and James Bond. The MI movies are just rollercoasterrides (and without doubt the best executed), but with scripts and stories that doesn't attract the wider appeal that these movies deserve, IMO. Yes, there are edge-of-your-seat moments, but if we take a step back and look at the plot for the last three, they are not especially well written and only serve as a vehicle for Cruise to do cool stuff.
Comparing JW4 with MI7, MI7 for certain has the upperhand storywise. JW4 is just ludricous action, that goes on and on. Like playing a Call of Duty game in 'God mode'. In the beginning of the movie we see John Wick chasing someone on horse through the desert. He ends up where someone is sitting in a chair, just there in the desert. No shade, no tent. It makes no sense what so ever. But the whole scene looks cool. JW4 has 94% on RT.
Compare this to MI:7 who also has desert scenes. Even a recycled sandstorm. At least - up to a point - it would make sense for Ilsa to hide there. But where JW4 has a very defined audience - even fangroups who love this kind of stylized action - the MI movies really have none it seems. Is there even an official MI fanclub?
Bond producers take note, because I didn't feel this way watching NTTD.
Actually, box office is looking good with US estimated to be second highest MI opening since no. 2, and international figures are already higher than estimated. It was packed out when I saw it.
Last week industry projections pointed to a $90-100M 5-days opening. Now it looks like is gonna be in the $75M range, with the Barbienheimer phenomenon storming the boxoffice next week… not looking good.
The industry reports indicate it's a strong opening, bigger than Fallout etc., so to say it's not good looking good is not really fair, even if it's below some initial forecasts. It's looking like $240 million worldwide opening. And it's opened well in China.
Word of mouth will probably help this movie, as it is absolutely brilliant and needs to be seen on the big screen. I'm guessing this film will have legs to carry it.
https://www.the-numbers.com/news/254590830-Weekend-predictions-Dead-Reckoning-headed-for-softer-than-expected-debut
Colonel, unfortunately, no.
Not saying it is bad. I’m saying that is performing below expectations and legs will be hurt by Barbie (headed to even a $400M finish domestic) and Nolan (he secured most IMAX screens for three weekends in a row).
The unexpected phenomenon of Sound of Freedom in the US will hurt too, given the fact they share the same white males demo.
In China is pulling off NTTD numbers, so it will likely finish $80/100M shy of Fallout.
Result: won’t likely cross $700M globally*. It needs $730M~ to break even.
*Hopefully I’m wrong bout that…
I agree, but, again, the opening figures are still very good. A bit lower than estimated in US, but still strong and higher than estimated internationally.
If enough casual film goers care enough about the WGA and SAG strikes it may spell even worse box office for the rest of 2023.
If Barbie and Oppenheimer open to poor ish box office then maybe the strike is having an impact. Another reason why many films are underperforming is the cost of living? People have less cash to spend on seeing lots of films? Perhaps.
This keeps coming up in a lot of people's spoiler tags so, again, either I'm very confused, or a lot of you are.
Jim Phelps
Sean Ambrose
Musgrave
Considering it seems that the IMF is recruited from a criminal history, then the backstory we get in MI:DR makes more sense.
https://www.the-numbers.com/daily-box-office-chart
https://deadline.com/2023/07/box-office-mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-tom-cruise-1235434821/
And personally:
A friend of mine who's a massive fan of the series came up with this theory last night