Film Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One | The Biggest Stunt in Cinema History

CassiusClaymore said:
Fair rankings. 6 is just the perfect action movie and the peak of the series. Definitely took a dive with 7. Just watching it again now and it's full of characters spouting painfully clunky exposition. I mean they do it in all of them to an extent but usually Cruise hides it quite well by doing that thing where he acts like he's just realised something himself. Some of the stuff Rebecca Ferguson has had to say made me throw up a little. Poor girl.

Also the whole film just seems to want to build up to that gratuitous motorbike stunt that we'd all already seen multiple times online before it even came out.

Oh and the "Entity" is dumb as feck.
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A part of me is sure that egomaniac Tom Cruise didn't like the fact everyone could see Rebecca Ferguson was cooler than him and ensured her character would be crap and cheeply killed off in that one. That whole thing and then the female counterpart being replaced within a couple of scenes by a newcomer was so incredibly poor.
Salt Bailly said:
I never want to hear Ving Rhames say the word entity ever again.
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Misson:Impossible - or a brief story of Ving Rhames becoming less and less mobile over 3 decades.
 
Mission Impossible 2 isn’t the worst film.

It’s a really fun action packed thriller.
 
Salt Bailly said:
It just doesn't feel like an M:I film. If it was a standalone action movie, it'd probably be more highly rated by people not called @Sweet Square.
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Tbh I agree it doesn’t feel like a M:I film but for me that’s why it’s the best one.

Everything after M:I2 turns into reliable action filler surviving on the charism of individual actors(Hoffman carries M:I 3)or the later films turning Cruise into Johnny Knoxville. And while there’s positives to this…..he goes skydiving with James Cordon. Overall these newer instalments have replaced any interesting style.

If we lived in a justice world the Mission Impossible series would have been military service for directors. All films paid by the government and every 3 - 4 years the best auteurs all over the globe are forced by gun point to direct.
 
Dead Reckoning is probably my least favourite tbh. Possibly because I was more hyped for this one based on the trailers so felt more of a let down. Was expecting a more serious story and direction but they went with nonsensical comic-relief and an AI baddie cos its cool.
 
Simbo said:
Dead Reckoning is probably my least favourite tbh. Possibly because I was more hyped for this one based on the trailers so felt more of a let down. Was expecting a more serious story and direction but they went with nonsensical comic-relief and an AI baddie cos its cool.
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Yes. Second viewing confirmed it was a bit shit for me. Like I said above it was exposition heavy even for a MI film, naff baddy, actually no real MI set piece in the middle of the film where they are supposed to do something "impossible" i.e. break into Langley, break into the Vatican to capture an arms dealer without anyone noticing etc...

Also Hayley Atwell's character was really annoying. They overdid the whole pick/put pocket thing to death and it felt like she was giving Cruise the run around for about two thirds of the movie when we'd already established he was the good guy early on. Right at the start he's on the phone to Pegg talking about trying to disarm a nuclear bomb at the airport and she's "oh never mind that I'll just steal this random key again and catch a plane out."
 
CassiusClaymore said:
Nothing has topped the CIA HQ break in from the first film. There's been better action sequences but that's the best "impossible mission bit" still I think.
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I think it felt like a reasonable thing they might have had to do too. Wheras some of the newer entries felt a bit convoluted although I did think the Kremlin break in was pretty clever.

Number 1 would be mine as the iconic hovering above laser floor part I think is too suspenseful and well shot even for its time to not stand out.
 
BenitoSTARR said:
I think it felt like a reasonable thing they might have had to do too. Wheras some of the newer entries felt a bit convoluted although I did think the Kremlin break in was pretty clever.

Number 1 would be mine as the iconic hovering above laser floor part I think is too suspenseful and well shot even for its time to not stand out.
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Yeah Kremlin break in was great as was the whole Burj Khalifa section in Ghost Protocol.
 
Fully expect that once Ethan finally destroys "The Entity" he'll prepare for his final mission against "The.......Stuff(?)" which is a nanotechnology virus that makes his friends turn against him and zombies and vague threats braaaaaaaammmm holy shit tom cruise is literally doing stunts in space.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
Fully expect that once Ethan finally destroys "The Entity" he'll prepare for his final mission against "The.......Stuff(?)" which is a nanotechnology virus that makes his friends turn against him and zombies and vague threats braaaaaaaammmm holy shit tom cruise is literally doing stunts in space.
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Still sounds better than MI:2
 
Eplel said:
"Face to face, like you wanted"

Best moment in any MI film.
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It’s the initial walking into glass, tries shooting “oh shit it’s bulletproof” and look it’s the whole gang that while not my favourite certainly has the air of satisfaction that a straight up knife fight/gun fight/insert fight doesn’t have.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
Fully expect that once Ethan finally destroys "The Entity" he'll prepare for his final mission against "The.......Stuff(?)" which is a nanotechnology virus that makes his friends turn against him and zombies and vague threats braaaaaaaammmm holy shit tom cruise is literally doing stunts in space.
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All joking aside you know he's itching to go into space and do something mental. Probably try a Felix Baumgarter as a swansong.
 
BenitoSTARR said:
Genuine question why the hate for MI:2?
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Because Scott is around 6ft tall and Cruise is about 4ft tall and nobody notices during the impersonation!
I don't actually have any issue with the movie tbh
 
simonhch said:
I know he’s had a lot of work done, but the dude is 61. Looks unbelievable for his age. Whatever work they did, it’s very very well done.

I know his thing is to run like the wind in every movie, and with each passing film they deploy more and more camera tricks to make it look like he’s running fast. But it must be funny being on the filming crew, watching a 61 year old sprint and then watching the Final Cut and seeing they make him look like prime Usain Bolt.
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Well tbf

 
Glad to see we’re getting full pelt Ethan again.
 
BenitoSTARR said:
Mission Impossible 2 isn’t the worst film.

It’s a really fun action packed thriller.
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Worst? Not sure but it is melodramatic action rubbish and hugely nonsensical. And a horribly cliqued use of Australia as a prop/greenscreen background.

The most irritating bit is when Hunt goes from Sydney to meet his team in the outback near Broken Hill, which is 1100kms west of Sydney, for no apparent reason. The only reason is because Australia.
 
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Once they start giving Sequels titles instead of sequential numbers I stop remembering which one is which
 
Bilbo said:
Once they start giving Sequels titles instead of sequential numbers I stop remembering which one is which
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The next one is called M15510N 1MP05518LE 2.

Ethan has 71 hours to stop The Mathamatcan - a maths genius who is unfortunately dyslexic - from blowing up Ving Rhames' chair. To make the mission especially impossible, the Mathamatcan has tied Ethan's shoelaces together to stop him from running.
 
I wish that when this series ends, the finale just goes back to basics. Breaking into a facility, drugging some foreign General, using some cool gadgets and escaping in the back of an ambulance. Just some fun spy intrigue and a double cross or two.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
I wish that when this series ends, the finale just goes back to basics. Breaking into a facility, drugging some foreign General, using some cool gadgets and escaping in the back of an ambulance. Just some fun spy intrigue and a double cross or two.
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I hope Ethan is the General in this scenario and there's an overdose.
 
To be fair he drugged a whole room full of secret service types this time around.
 
Donaldo said:
To be fair he drugged a whole room full of secret service types this time around.
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Which was dumb as it had a huge glass window and you're telling me nobody on the floor noticed all that green smoke?

I guess it could've been one way though. Yes, I'll go with that.
 
CassiusClaymore said:
Which was dumb as it had a huge glass window and you're telling me nobody on the floor noticed all that green smoke?

I guess it could've been one way though. Yes, I'll go with that.
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They never get the dose wrong in these movies either. Someone should die by accident, and the impossible mission is Ethan trying stop to the man's soul from being eaten by aliens in a volcano.
 
CassiusClaymore said:
Which was dumb as it had a huge glass window and you're telling me nobody on the floor noticed all that green smoke?

I guess it could've been one way though. Yes, I'll go with that.
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The whole scene felt like a parody of an MI movie.

Which is probably what the entire movie felt like, in hindsight. Really dropped the ball with this one, did Thomas.
 
amolbhatia50k said:
I thought Dead Reckoning was good fun. Looking forward to the next one.
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For me that’s how’s you describe basically every other one except this one. Good throwaway fun. The most recent one had none of that. It was overly convoluted, made basically no sense, had poor villains and even the main stunt they hyped up looked somehow worse in the film.
 
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