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Oh yes it has. No one above 35 should ever get a take on the role again. After all, it is a young man's game.
EON can't even make one movie in that time these days.
I can't wait for them to have more interactions in this. I thought Renner and Rhames had some great chemistry during those Casablanca scenes.
It's definitely the weakest in the series for me. I've got them all on blu-ray, going to give them a rewatch once Fallout gets closer to release. I read yesterday all of the films will finally come to 4K/UHD once this new one does, which is exciting.
"No, please, continue."
They do seem to have good chemistry, wouldn't be surprised if they ended up dating. Their recent appearance on the Graham Norton show had a similar feel.
What irony, antiquated thinking.
And yet childish. What a contradiction.
What's wrong with James Bond in his prime? I mean, just for a change? Only to show the kids to feel how it was, when James Bond was cool.
35 is nothing nowadays.
As long as MI2 is around it will always be not just the weakest MI film, but a bad film overall. I like some of Woo's other films, Face/Off is an action masterpiece, but he and this franchise were a bad combination gone horribly wrong that would make a good MST 3000 episode.
There's absolutely no team concept, just Hunt, Luther and some nondescript Aussie. Tandy Newton's character is awful; recruiting an old girlfriend to bait the villain is more Man from UNCLE than MI. The Sean Ambrose character seems like a pale rip-off of Trevelyan from GoldenEye but comes off as just a smarmy egomaniac. The mask thing is overdone.
Some of the scenes are just laughable including Hunt doing a 180 on the motorcycle and shooting down several henchmen, the scene where Cruise and Newton's cars are spinning around in slow motion and the final battle between Hunt and Ambrose.
The only really good scenes were right upfront with Cruise rock climbing and the classy presence of Anthony Hopkins.
III felt fresh. JJ Abrahams, hot off Alias, was a good good fit as he brought some of the approach of that series and it translated easily.
There was a team feel with the fresh younger actors with multiple skills. Phillip Seymour Hoffman's Davien was probably the best villain of the series, doesn't look threatening but is, like many classic Bond villains.
There are fun, memorable action scenes and the kidnapping of Davien in the Vatican was maybe the best team interaction scene in the series, lots of great atmosphere and suspense and a great tribute to the original series.
What drags III down is the presence of yet another traitor in the organization.
"Hhhuuuntt!!"
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While I do enjoy a lot of MI3, it's the darn sap, married life b/s and melodrama that brings it down a bit for me. A tad overdone imho. I was so looking forward to the film in 2006 and felt a bit let down by the domestic family stuff. I agree that Hoffmann was excellent though (chilling), but Hunt writhing in the torture chair was very uncool (only surpassed by Craig attempting something similar in SP).
These two remain the worst entries in the series for me. I'm glad they've moved on from this but have some concerns that McQuarrie may revisit the 'mush' in MI:6.