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As a franchise it has moved from one I refused to see when I heard about what they did to Mr. Phelps to one of the last of the four movies that I  have been looking forward to seeing this summer

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Irlandesa

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I am looking forward to this movie too.  I am glad I can separate Scientology Tom Cruise from Movie Star Tom Cruise because I think he can make some pretty good action movies such as this franchise, Edge of Tomorrow ...heck, I even liked Jack Reacher.

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ribboninthesky1

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Looks like Jeremy Renner won't be doing much, plus I'm disappointed that Paula Patton didn't return.

 

Ditto.  

 

I've enjoyed this franchise a lot, but the trailer for this one didn't pique my interest much.  I'll likely still see it in theaters, though. 

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Irlandesa

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It currently holds a 97% fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes which I'm guessing means this movie is continuing the tradition of fun.  My parents are visiting this weekend so I may take them...although I tolerate Cruise more than my dad does so we may not.

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Yeah, what's up with that? I didn't expect Cruise to disappear, but I thought they were going to have Renner take over the lead role in the franchise.

 

 

Frankly, I don't think Renner has the charm or charisma to take over the MI (or Bourne) franchises ...... I like him fine as a supporting actor not so much as a leading one.

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.... plus I'm disappointed that Paula Patton didn't return.

It's disappointing that the role of 'hot female agent/love interest' is such a flavor of the month thing. The males roles don't appear to be so easily swap-able. 

 

..Whatever .. maybe it's some type of homage to old-style action movies, ala James Bond and the interchangeable arm candy. 

 

Otherwise, the MI films are fun, fast moving and truly summer popcorn movies.

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ribboninthesky1

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Renner is fine as a lead, but his character was just introduced in the last film.  It may have been a better bet to go the James Bond route and recast him as Ethan Hunt.  But I don't see Cruise passing the mantle on as long as he's capable of doing crazy stunts - this franchise is the only thing he has left, at least in terms of American audiences. 

 

It's disappointing that the role of 'hot female agent/love interest' is such a flavor of the month thing. The males roles don't appear to be so easily swap-able. 

 

Thankfully, Paula Patton wasn't Cruise's love interest, and she didn't die.  Which is why I assumed she'd return. Then again, Ving Rhames is reduced to cameos, even though he's been there from the beginning of the franchise.  

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I was wondering why Patton wasn't showing up in the trailers.  Did they say why she's not returning?

 

Maybe she's in the process of repairing her relationship with Robin Thicke?

 

No, seriously, though, she's been in the process of filming two movies:

Warcraft (yes, based on the video game)

and The Do Over with, uck, Adam Sandler and uck, David Spade.

She also filmed a pilot for a TV series, "Runner". Show runner is Michael Offer, from "How to Get Away With Murder", it's about gun runners and drug cartels.  She's the main character.

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It's disappointing that the role of 'hot female agent/love interest' is such a flavor of the month thing. The males roles don't appear to be so easily swap-able. 

 

..Whatever .. maybe it's some type of homage to old-style action movies, ala James Bond and the interchangeable arm candy. 

 

Otherwise, the MI films are fun, fast moving and truly summer popcorn movies.

 

 

Maybe she's in the process of repairing her relationship with Robin Thicke?

 

No, seriously, though, she's been in the process of filming two movies:

Warcraft (yes, based on the video game)

and The Do Over with, uck, Adam Sandler and uck, David Spade.

She also filmed a pilot for a TV series, "Runner". Show runner is Michael Offer, from "How to Get Away With Murder", it's about gun runners and drug cartels.  She's the main character.

 

Yeah, IMDb Trivia says that she and Maggie Q were supposed to appear but both dropped out for "scheduling conflicts" -- obviously to be taken with a grain of salt but with that list of projects it seems plausible, particularly since MI films are filmed on multiple distant locations so it's not like you can just zip across the city to the next sound stage as needed!

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Yeah, IMDb Trivia says that she and Maggie Q were supposed to appear but both dropped out for "scheduling conflicts" -- obviously to be taken with a grain of salt but with that list of projects it seems plausible, particularly since MI films are filmed on multiple distant locations so it's not like you can just zip across the city to the next sound stage as needed!

The Patton/Q thing is direct from Christopher MacQuarrie, who was asked about it and said they tried, but that neither was available.  Which could be spin, still, but absent some other evidence I'm inclined to believe him, since I can't see any reason why they'd be resistant to that.

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HunterHunted

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I don't understand how they manage to insure these films. Tom Cruise is married to this idea of doing his own stunts and is determined to top himself with each film. The insurance must be astronomical. I wonder if they do all of the principal photography first and spend the last part of filming on stunts so that it Tom dies they can still piece together a film using stuntmen.

Also I would never watch a MI film with Jeremy Renner as the lead. He has the charm of a Brillo pad.

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ApathyMonger

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Saw it today. Great fun, if not quite as good as the fourth one. The opera sequence is especially great, and I liked the big chase a lot too.

Rebecca Ferguson is good as the main new addition to the cast, but it's a shame they didn't bring Paula Patton back. I guess it's nice that Ving Rhames is back in the mix, but I hadn't missed him much.

 

I did also like the (probably accidental) Rev. reunion with Tom Hollander as the PM and Simon McBurney as the head of MI-6.

 

I do think the third act is a bit of a letdown after the action-packed first 90 minutes, but there's still some good bits in there.

 

I was also never really clear on why Alec Baldwin thought Ethan and co were making up The Syndicate. It felt a bit contrived, and his sudden about-face at the end felt unearned (and far too similar to end of Skyfall).

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Thought Ghost Protocol was better, but I still enjoyed this.  Tom Cruise might be a big figurehead in an insane cult and has lacks range as an actor, but I do think he excels as Ethan Hunt and similar roles.  For a lack of a better word, he does come off like a star who anchor a blockbuster like this.  And even if it gets run into the ground, it really is impressive that he does all these crazy-ass stunts himself.  Guy commits, I give him that.

 

That said, I think the highlight was actually Ilsa Faust and Rebecca Ferguson.  I never saw her The White Queen show, so I only know her from a small role in Dwayne Johnson's Hercules, but I thought she more then held her own, and made Ilsa very compelling to watch.  I can easily see this role launching her into bigger things in both film and television.

 

Simon Pegg still brings the laughs as Benji.  But he also sold the fear very well when he got captured and had a bomb strapped to his chest.

 

Jeremy Renner is a good actor, but I still find Brandt to be dull.  If the long-term plan is to have him replace Ethan Hunt, then I'm not sure that's the right call.

 

Biggest surprise was that Alec Baldwin/Huntley wasn't a traitor.  I thought for sure he was going to end up being a bad guy, so I called that wrong.

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IWantCandy71

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Frankly, I don't think Renner has the charm or charisma to take over the MI (or Bourne) franchises ...... I like him fine as a supporting actor not so much as a leading one.

 

I think JR has just as much charisma as most generic Hollywood leading men these days. I mean, look at Chris Hemsworth. What is his appeal??

Most Hollywood leading men are so bland, and have been for years, and the only ones who truly aren't bland are unconventional ones, like Tom Hiddleston. Though I'm not sure he counts as "leading". Benedict Cumberbatch is another one-guys like that, stand out to me, because of their talent, their chemistry, etc.

I find Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, George Clooney,etc....standard, typical leading men to be so dull.

With that said, I actually think Jeremy Renner falls somewhere in between. He's neither perfectly drop dead handsome, to be in the typical leading man category, nor is he overly quirky, like Cruise. Secondly, I think this particular franchise is actually one where there doesn't have to be-and really shouldn't be-ONE leading man. It should always be an ensemble.

I personally think-and I'm going out on a limb here-that the opinion that most people go to see this type of movie for the TEAM, the ensemble, and not just Cruise or any one character-is the majority opinion. Maybe it's not, but if it's not, it should be. So, I'm okay with Renner someday maybe taking Cruise's spot. Because if the future movies are done right, Renner might be considered a "lead", but he'll be a lead in an ensemble cast movie, and have so much support that you really can't say there's too much focus on his character. I think William Brandt is a fascinating character, and really sort of a tortured hero. One we still know little about, unlike Ethan Hunt, whose emotional beats have all been played out IMO.  hey are just repeating various women for Ethan now, and I don't think he's ever going to be unfaithful to his wife, so those relationships are going nowhere. With Benji or Brandt, you don't know as much about them. It's time for more focus to be on the other team members, and less on Hunt.

That was actually supposed to be the plan during "Ghost Protocol", that Brandt was being groomed to take over Hunt's spot, and Cruise was going to take on less on screen responsibilities. Supposedly, Chris McQuarrie came on halfway through "GP" to tweak the script, and advised Cruise against making the change. Now in the new movie, Brandt's character is almost redundant. If they were going to "bench" Brandt, why not just make him the secretary?

Eh, anyway-I really liked the new movie, but I hope the next one focuses more on the other characters. I did NOT like the way this one shoved Luther and Brandt to the side, as afterthoughts, and focused so much on Benji-I like SP, but really, Benji is the type of character where less is more.

 

I think the opera scene, the car chase, the motorcycle chase, the underwater scene, and the airplane stunt were all awesome. Still wish they would have focused more on the other characters, though, and I am still not sure about this-but I think I enjoyed GP more. Though RN may be better written and more suspenseful, over all, GP had more focus on the other members, and IMO again, this franchise needs that.

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Irlandesa

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That said, I think the highlight was actually Ilsa Faust and Rebecca Ferguson.  I never saw her The White Queen show, so I only know her from a small role in Dwayne Johnson's Hercules, but I thought she more then held her own, and made Ilsa very compelling to watch.  I can easily see this role launching her into bigger things in both film and television.

Yep.  And I think her character is a big reason why I prefer this film to Ghost Protocol.  That, and I think the big action sequences were a little more clever and I liked the humor.  In fact, that car crash where everyone ran into one another during the big chase was one of the biggest laughs I've had this year even though I kind of felt it was coming. I almost want to see the movie again to see that moment again.

 

 hey are just repeating various women for Ethan now, and I don't think he's ever going to be unfaithful to his wife, so those relationships are going nowhere.

I don't understand this.  Ethan's relationships with women are going nowhere unless they become romantic/sexual?  So with men you can have a variety of non-sexual relationships like professional allies or friendships but that's not enough with the women characters? 

 

I do think it's frustrating that there hasn't been any continuity with some of the women characters in the MI series but at the same time, a lot of my frustration is tempered by the fact that Isla was a great character whose importance to the main action and male protagonist wasn't located between her legs.  If anything, it was her character's inscrutability and inner conflict that drove much of the plot of this movie.  Her emotional beats were explored far more than Ethan's. 

 

In fact, that place in exile where she was torn between helping allies, helping her government or ingratiating herself to the villain to carry out her mission is somewhere Ethan has been and I felt they ended understanding they were kindred spirits. 

 

I personally think-and I'm going out on a limb here-that the opinion that most people go to see this type of movie for the TEAM, the ensemble, and not just Cruise or any one character-is the majority opinion.

 If there is one thing that's certain it's that people go to movies for different reasons with different expectations.  There are people who go only for the crazy action sequences.  They couldn't care less whether Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames or Jeremy Renner were there.  Others care about the team.  Some loved the increased humor quotient.  Others didn't. (For instance, I like Pegg's humor in this.)  I mostly loved the action in this movie but was kind of bored during the motorcycle scene. Others think it was a highlight. 

 

Jeremy Renner is a good actor, but I still find Brandt to be dull.  If the long-term plan is to have him replace Ethan Hunt, then I'm not sure that's the right call.

I don't have strong feelings about Jeremy Renner but I also can't imagine this franchise with Brandt as the "lead."  In fact, because of the kindred spirit aspect, I think Isla makes a more logical choice to continue the MI franchise even though I know the studio would never do that. 

 

I get that Renner was pegged to potentially take over the series and that hasn't panned out as of yet.  I think it'd be a mistake.  I think a lot of the success of the MI films is what Tom Cruise puts into them on and off screen.  And hell, he looks like he's having fun with the role.  I don't get that with Jenner as Brandt. 

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Jazzy24

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I saw this yesterday and I loved it.

The technology that was in this film was off the chain and I want it. I love the team Ethan still remains my favorite and I really liked Rebecca Ferguson. A really great movie all together and the beginning with the plane that made my stomach jump like three times scared the heck out of me.

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The technology that was in this film was off the chain and I want it.

That's one thing the movie series nailed from the show. The difference between the IMF and the other fictional spy organizations is the cutting-edge tech. Even more than Bond.

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Biggest surprise was that Alec Baldwin/Huntley wasn't a traitor.  I thought for sure he was going to end up being a bad guy, so I called that wrong.

My biggest surprise was "the Secretary" was just the head of the IMF, now he is also the CIA Director as his day job, and not actually THE Secretary of State. I guess I should have know from the TV show when they shifted from international spies to going after their "Syndicate" since for some reason TV would not use Mafia back then

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Looooooooooved it. I've seen all 5 Mission: Impossible movies in the theater and this one is hands down the best so far. I also love that there were callbacks to the previous movies. The opening scene wasn't just great because of the insane stunt by Cruise but by the whole interaction of the team through comlink.

 

The setpieces were great. The whole sequence at the opera house and the awesome motorcycle chase scene in Morocco and the tense bomb scene with Benji.

 

Pegg was hilarious and also very moving in some scenes.

 

Loved the scene with the British Prime Minister and Renner and Alec Baldwin.

 

Count me as another new member of the Rebecca Ferguson fanclub. She was awesome. Badass and brought deep layers to her character. I thought she out-Black Widowed Black Widow and I don't mean that as a dis because I still love Natasha Romanov, but this was the first time I could believe a smaller woman could really beat a man twice her size and weight doing all that acrobatic

 

hankfully, Paula Patton wasn't Cruise's love interest, and she didn't die.  Which is why I assumed she'd return. Then again, Ving Rhames is reduced to cameos, even though he's been there from the beginning of the franchise.

It's just as well. When he's running trying to get to Rebecca Ferguson in the train station and he's huffing and puffing away, I don't think that was acting!

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I don't understand this.  Ethan's relationships with women are going nowhere unless they become romantic/sexual?  So with men you can have a variety of non-sexual relationships like professional allies or friendships but that's not enough with the women characters? 

 

 

That's not what I said.  I'm simply pointing out that this franchise likes to tease that all the wimmin are just SO attracted to Ethan, but because we've established Ethan is still married and in love with his wife, we know nothing's going to happen. So, why even bother going there?

They did this in the last movie, briefly with ZS's character and Ethan. Why not be unpredictable next time and tease a relationship with Renner's character or SP's Benji and Ilsa, or a new female character? To me, teasing any woman with Ethan has been done and done, and unless they are going to *really* kill off his wife and put him with someone else, what's the point? It's far more interesting to me when you DON'T know what's going to happen, and with one of the other men and a female character, I think that'd be the case.

 

As far as TC looking like he's having fun, of course he would. He gets to do all the fun stuff. How much fun do you think he'd look like he was having if he played Renner's character and was stuck behind a desk?

If JR got to do more fun stuff, he'd probably look more like he was having fun, too. I don't get comparing them, really. TC is the major pushing force behind these movies being made. Isn't Bad Robot Productions his company? Hasn't it already been said TC was instrumental in getting more MI movies made after the third one? I mean, there's a reason(s) a major generic Hollywood studio is no longer involved in these movies. Obviously, it isn't because the franchise isn't a money maker anymore.

I'm getting off track here, but I'll just repeat that to me, in a movie franchise where TC is written as the star and gets all the flashy stuff, it's senseless to compare the lesser characters and say they can't do what TC is doing and make it as good. They haven't been given a chance. I think TC gets along with his co stars, but I think he also wants most of the attention on himself. I think, once he decides he doesn't want to do the movies anymore, they'd probably end the franchise.

Not because no one else is capable of carrying the movies. But because the public is so used to seeing TC's presence in the movies, that they won't feel right without him. And that's a very different thing from him being irreplaceable. I also think he won't care about the franchise anymore, once he can no longer be "the star".

 

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They did this in the last movie, briefly with ZS's character and Ethan.

 

Who's ZS?

 

Isn't Bad Robot Productions his company?

 

 

Bad Robot is J.J. Abrams' company. They've only been producing the movies since M:I III which Abrams directed  and Abrams was producer of Ghost Protocol and Rogue Nation. Since Abrams is also directing the new Star Wars, Bad Robot has producer credit there along with Lucasfilm.

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Ethan is married?  I didn't realize that.  I saw the first Mission Impossible movie, wasn't crazy about it and then never saw another one until Rogue Nation because I saw the trailer so much and liked what I saw.

 

I did enjoy Rogue Nation.  Some fantastic action and stuntwork although the story itself does nothing for me.

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Started watching The White Queen miniseries after seeing Rogue Nation,  just for her She's great as Elizabeth Woodville the wife of Edward IV along with Janet McTeer as her mother. I thought her fantastic "dancer's butt" was because of her fight training for the movie, but seeing in her simple form fitting medieval dresses before her character becomes Queen, nope she's had it before Mission Impossible! Also looking through the twitter timeline with the tag "Rebecca Ferguson" I found tweets insulting her and talking about her being with Zayn formerly One Direction and I thought "Huh, that's surprising" than I found out there's another famous Rebecca Ferguson in the UK, a British born singer of Jamaican descent who's a former X-Factor contestant!

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Brad Bird's Ghost Protocol was my favourite of the series, but Rogue Nation is better still; perhaps the action scenes aren't quite as eye-catching, but it's got a better plot and a much better villain, both of which felt rather perfunctory in Bird's film. Other than Mad Max: Fury Road, I can't recall another film that starts as quickly as this one; it's customary to include an opening action sequence in action films, but whereas most films follow that with more in the way of setup and exposition for the main plot, Rogue Nation throttles forward after a lull of maybe a minute. The movie as a consequence feels longer than it is, not in the "check your watch because it's dull" sense, rather the "wow, so much has happened already" sense.

 

Amongst the cast, Cruise continues to demonstrate that he's the most durable action star of his generation. I don't know how much longer he can keep this up, but I'll be interested to watch. So much of the praise for this film has centered around Rebecca Ferguson, who along with the ladies from Fury Road should set a new standard for the female leads in action movies. And while Ferguson is phenomenal, it's not just the actress -- the Ilsa character is quite intriguing even on a scripting level, and she generates genuine mystery around her motivations and true loyalties for much of the running time, which is often a pretty perfunctory plot device (indeed, the movie does the same thing, to way less effect, with Jeremy Renner's character).

 

Simon Pegg's role in the series continues to expand, and he definitely feels like the member of Hunt's team who inspires genuine interest and affection from the creative team; the aforementioned Renner is fine, but he's clearly a replacement character who is never going to actually replace Hunt, and Ving Rhames' Luther feels like he's here largely because he's the only surviving supporting cast from the first two movies. If it's true that they tried to get Paula Patton and/or Maggie Q back for this one, I wonder if one of them wouldn't have replaced Rhames, because he already doesn't have much to do, and I struggle to see where more characters would fit into this narrative.

 

In the Department of Overthinking It, the movie clearly frames Chief Atlee's plan for the original Syndicate, directed by the Prime Minister, as a bad idea -- but what exactly is the difference between ur-Syndicate and the IMF, which is established in this movie as being a neoconservative wet dream organization that operates in total secrecy, even from the Senate Intelligence Committee?  The only oversight that the IMF effectively has is that it can be shut down, but since it apparently only has to disclose things when it wants to, that really isn't much of a check.

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The IMF, based on the show and the movies, were always reacting to an immediate potential threat like a preventing an assassination or finding a nuclear weapon before it destroys a city. The team had to work fast under a ticking clock most of he time. My feeling is that the 'Syndicate' was originally intended by MI6 to do things for the long term and to "keep the status quo"  as Sean Harris' character put it. He subverted and used it to "create a new world order". An "anti-IMF" as Benji called it. Although as someone on Twitter said wouldn't that be a "possible missions force"?

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I mean institutionally, they're both basically unaccountable spy agencies operating more or less at the discretion of their directors.  The only real difference is the "good intentions" of the people running them.

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The review at "The Life and Art of View" pointed how great it was that Alec Baldwin got to describe in that great voice of his the character of Ethan Hunt being "The human manifestation of destiny".

When he said that I half-wondered if it was Ethan himself posing as Hunley, which would have been hilarious (though I had already guessed that Ethan was actually Atlee).

 

I forgot to mention Baldwin, who was a nice addition (and the film avoids making him the villain, which I expect many people were expecting).

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The review at "The Life and Art of View" pointed how great it was that Alec Baldwin got to describe in that great voice of his the character of Ethan Hunt being "The human manifestation of destiny".

 

Which is the epitome of what makes this movie so over-the-top ridiculous.  They've turned Ethan Hunt into an indestructible superhero and the fighter for all that is Good in the world.  Hold his breath under water for three minutes?  No problem.  Hang from a plane in midair?  No problem.  Run straight away from an automatic weapon without even getting nicked by a bullet?  No problem.

 

Not to mention long periods of dragginess throughout the film.

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Which is the epitome of what makes this movie so over-the-top ridiculous.  They've turned Ethan Hunt into an indestructible superhero and the fighter for all that is Good in the world.  Hold his breath under water for three minutes?  No problem.  Hang from a plane in midair?  No problem.  Run straight away from an automatic weapon without even getting nicked by a bullet?  No problem.

 

Not to mention long periods of dragginess throughout the film.

That's really not new.  At the latest, that started with the second movie.

 

When did it drag? If anything, I'd say this movie was constantly moving forward.

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Which is the epitome of what makes this movie so over-the-top ridiculous.  They've turned Ethan Hunt into an indestructible superhero and the fighter for all that is Good in the world.  Hold his breath under water for three minutes?  No problem.  Hang from a plane in midair?  No problem.

 

 

I think what's great is that there were actual problems. He couldn't save the record shop girl/agent. He couldn't stop the Austrian chancellor from being killed.  Ethan needed to have Ilsa rescue him from in London and later save him underwater and restart his hear. I would scoff along with you if there had been stunt men or some kind of but Crusie was hanging from the side of a plane as it took off. He was swimming underwater and he was riding a motorcycle at incredibly fast speeds tipping it very close to the road. Yes there were safety lines and harnesses that were digitally erased and all kinds of measures to ensure he was safe but it's still thrilling because it's real world physics involved.

 

By this movie his superhumanness is almost a running joke. Like the fact that he just looked at the screen and memorized a whole flashdrive full all the bank accounts and passwords. If  that happened in M:I 2 I would have said "Oh come on!" but by this point they've already established Ethan Hunt is just awesome. In M:I III we learned he could read lips, In Ghost Protocol he can draw a person from memory in incredible detail.

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By this movie his superhumanness is almost a running joke. Like the fact that he just looked at the screen and memorized a whole flashdrive full all the bank accounts and passwords. If  that happened in M:I 2 I would have said "Oh come on!" but by this point they've already established Ethan Hunt is just awesome. In M:I III we learned he could read lips, In Ghost Protocol he can draw a person from memory in incredible detail.

 

Agreed, he's the Nancy Drew of superspys. I loved Benji just being like, "Oh, three minutes underwater?  No biggie!!"

 

The "personification of destiny" speech was a little over-the-top but... c'mon.  We're not here for the realism.

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Saw it, liked it.  Ilsa was definitely the stand-out, but I enjoyed the scene were Brandt challenged Ethan's motives.  Renner doesn't have much character to work with ("Hi, I'm the suit") but I liked his snark.  Also good: Ethan failing to slide over the car after being revived from drowning.  The ending left me wondering:  What's the difference between having Hunley for the Secretary and having the IMF rolled into the CIA?  The one major flaw in the series is the conception of the IMF as a supersecret spy force, which I can get in any number of movie franchises, instead of the ad-hoc assembly of specialists that the show used, which is refreshingly different.

 

I really want to see someone get captured after a lingering, dramatic farewell now.

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Did anyone else have the perception within certain scenes that different shots within them were filmed at very different times? In particular there was a dialogue-heavy scene in an interior setting somewhere in the middle of the movie--I think it was when Cruise, Pegg and Ferguson were discussing how the underwater stuff would go down--in which certain shots of Cruise seemed to show him somewhat rounder of face, while other shots in the same exchange showed him leaner of face. Almost as if they went back and reshot some of his lines, but so much later than the original shoot that he no longer looked the same.

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Run straight away from an automatic weapon without even getting nicked by a bullet?  No problem.

 

They did show that he got shot and was bleeding from the abdomen when he rang Brandt from the payphone booth in London after escaping from The Bone Doctor with Ilsa's help.

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