Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning

The train set piece seemed very reminiscent ofanother movie. I think it was Wanted 2008 a movie with Angelina Jolie but could have been something else. Really bugging me. Otherwise a good if not average movie in the mi franchise

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I caught part of it recently. The bridge attack is a great sequence, I didn’t notice too much shakey cam.

Watched it Saturday, they should have kept quiet about the jump, having seen it so much in the marketing really dropped it's impact.

I felt a large part of my enjoyment of the first half of the movie was the fact I've been in both Rome and Venice this year so was able to play "spot the places I've been" in those scenes.

Enjoyable popcorn fluff but thoroughly enjoyable.

Maybe in minority here by what a load of over-acted pretentious nonsense. Some a the scenes and dialogue were just absurdly exaggerated. Weird. Remove the action scenes and it was really poor.

And the acting was so ham!! All so scripted with their sentences and interjections. Really felt so stiff and forced.

it was so far-removed from some of the earlier films. Cruise is just very unconvincing. Lacked any sort stage presence.

and wtf was the story with the key? Supposedly the most important thing in the universe and every 5 mins they were losing the fooking thing..

I enjoyed it, but I didn't think it was as good as either of Rouge Nation or Fallout.

I know nuance and shades of light and dark are not really the series' thing post MI:3 - everything resembling a plot is essentially just a means to string a pile of set-pieces together. Which I've generally been okay with, but I thought this entry was dumber and broader than what has come before and some of the exposition and dialogue was downright cheesy. The scene where the idea of the "entity" is spelled out in block capitals to Cary Elwes, had me wincing with how naff it was. The plot is an incomprehensible mess.

But, yes, I know, it's not really about that, so that criticism only goes so far. But as a "turn your brain" off blockbuster I don't think it reached the heights of previous editions. Now, those are really high standards, but the action felt a bit less inspired, a bit more tired and definitely less physically real than its most recent predecessors.

I did enjoy it - it's still a superior class of action blockbuster - and would still reccomend it, but I am surprised people are so effusive about it.

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I watched the film yesterday and I can’t understand the hype around it. It’s pretty entertaining and the action scenes are well done but the storyline is so abysmally stupid I found myself frequently laughing to myself at how preposterous it was. I don’t expect a strong plot from a 100 minute B-movie, but this was 2hr 45 mins long with a lot of talk about “The Entity” and that stupid key, so I think viewers were entitled to expect something better. Plus I found Cruise’s overacting very annoying at times and Simon Pegg continues to be miscast. On the upside, the scene at the end on the train was well done. But overall, it was 3/5, no more.

Another thing: Cruise needs to give up the action man nonsense. He looks ridiculous. Has a massive ego. I watched Impossibe Missions the other night. Hour long doc about the mission impossible movies.

Tom, Simon and Hayley. It’s Simon and Hayley telling Tom how great he is for the whole hour and him grinning like a Cheshire Cat lapping it up. Cringe.

There are some references back to all of the previous films yes, barring MI:2 I’d say!. Right back to the first one in fact, as a major character from the original movie reappears in this one.

That said, the plot isn’t too taxing and I don’t think you need to sit through all of them.

Saw this last night and enjoyed it. That said, I am in the camp of that the first mission impossible is the best. That's a film while the rest are movies - if that makes sense.

If you go in accepting what it is then you will enjoy yourself.

It was OK. Definitely the weakest of the series. One of the opening scenes in the debrief room where ...everyone got .... Chance to speak... And say a ... Few words that .... Kept... the sentence going ... but just looked ... .... (oh wait it's my line) ...and sounded Ridiculous.

The amount of literal head nods between Atwell and Cruise in front of everyone was so camp and twee. Adding a character that was so green into a plot that was trying to convey this was the greatest threat ever didn't really fit in well.

Also, he's some man for [spoiler] bumping a love interest out of the way for a new one [/spoiler] it was like an old Bond movie.

The train crash looked good ... in parts and awful in others. The last minute saves were just laughable.

The villain was actually quite cool I thought and had a lingering physical threat but they let it all done with the "Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnn" moment.

5/10.

It irritated the bejesus out of me... I want to suspend my disbelief... I'm trying real hard to suspend my disbelief - why make it so difficult on such a simple scene? Like, even in a preposterous movie, you still have to have rules to ground it so at least something can matter and have stakes. But they did that "one-line-many-voices" thing instead of actual conversation a whole bunch of times throughout the film, and it just turns characters into sock puppets unnecessarily. Just seems a particularly lazy way to lash out all your exposition over and over.

I can never understand this take that M:I 3 is a dud. Hoffman is excellent and the Vatican heist is one of the best in the series. Also, unlike Ghost Protocol which peaks during the Dubai scenes and the subsequent Indian sequence is a bit lacking, the third act of M:I 3 keeps the tension to the end.

I have only seen the first two in cinemas. Something has always got in the way of me seeing the rest on the big screen but I’m seeing this tomorrow - been looking forward to it for a while but even more now as I have just watched FALLOUT for the first time.

And as to FALLOUT… **** hell. I’ve considered many a film as “non-stop action” before but clearly I didn’t know what non-stop action means. I do now.

And it was all great stuff.

And good to see Ving Rhames getting more screen time.