Better late than never!

@jamesatkinsonja

Жыл бұрын

Don't worry, I've been waiting patiently for it all week as I loved the Fallout and Maverick reviews and it was worth the wait. Great work.

There were a lot of callbacks to the earlier movies. "I know you must be very angry" a line that Kidricht said to Ethan in both MI1 and this one. The climax happening on a speeding train with Ethan fighting the bad guy on top of it and in the train are Kidricht and an international arms dealer. Ethan having to leave the woman behind because his parachute can only carry one person also happened in MI2. The mask machine malfunctions right before a critical mission was also in Ghost Protocol.

@FilmBrain

Жыл бұрын

The two halves MacGuffin is also a callback to the two-part NOC list in the 1996 film.

@jamesatkinsonja

Жыл бұрын

And of course we have Kittridge meeting Max/her children [The White Widow and Zola] and the female villain [Clare/Paris] being betrayed by Jim/Gabriel. While it wasn't too relevant to the plot in MI2, Nyah was also a thief much like Grace.

Oh God, I remember those tapes with trailers... And I still have no idea where they came from; like one didn't go down to the video store and say "Do you have just the trailers?" It made sense that stores would have them to play for customers to see, but the public?!

@jamesatkinsonja

Жыл бұрын

They were 'promo''s if memory serves. I had a 'Star Trek' one with the trailers for the first 8 films on. Of course pre-youtube it made more sense [like the stories people would go to see films with Star Wars prequel trailers attached to them specifically for the trailer].

@FilmBrain

Жыл бұрын

In this case, it was the rebranding of MGM Cinemas to Virgin Cinemas.

@wjzav1971

Жыл бұрын

I remember my brother had CD Roms for the PC that contained game previews and movie trailers.

Random question for you, Mathew: do you plan on doing a part two of your movie poster collection? I recently rewatched that video when I was home sick, and I would love to see part two. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Great review, btw. Don't want to overlook that. I think your work has gotten better and better within the last couple of years.

@FilmBrain

Жыл бұрын

I do keep meaning to do another part at some point, but it isn't an immediate priority. But I do want to get back to it! 👍

Christopher McQuarrie directed The Way Of The Gun in 2000 and an underrated movie with some great action sequences.

@mythdusterds

Жыл бұрын

I have never seen Way of the Gun before.

@theaaroncarruthers

Жыл бұрын

@@mythdusterds it's got Benico Del Toro & James Cann

The highlights of the film are defiantly the airport, interactions with the Italian police, the car chase, and train sequence

Still weird that Ethan Hunt decides to take on Linkara's best adversary.

I can never take the Acronym IMF seriously. I keep expecting Ethan to talk about Christine Legarde and structural adjustment programs.

@jamesatkinsonja

Жыл бұрын

There's actually a joke about it early on in the film!

Just saw it yesterday!

Fallout was going to be a hard act to follow and while I don't think this was as good as it or 'Rouge Nation' it was still a great ride. There are story choices [as you hinted in the video] I don't agree with and some of the new characters will be hard to judge until Part 2 comes out [probably not until 2025] but the action sequences were amazing and Cruise was on top form.

I agree that the film is not very tangible. I also feel like this film does not provide many new gadgets to the film that have not been seen before in the previous films. We have seen mask making gadgets, voice changers, phones, cars. I wish there was more to see that was stuff you missed in first go and see in further watches. This does not hold up as well as Mission Impossible 3-6

Amazing movie!

Personally Rogue Nation followed by Ghost Protocol is my favorite. Mission Impossible 3 has the best villain.

@wjzav1971

Жыл бұрын

I found MI3 an incredibly boring movie. At some point he has to break into some building to get the Rabbit's Foot but we don't actually get to see the heist but ohhh, now they have to race through the city trying to get a signal to make a call. Points for creativity but that does not really scream "Exciting Spy Thriller" to me.

@mythdusterds

Жыл бұрын

@@wjzav1971 Mission Impossible 3 is better than Mission Impossible 1 & 2. Mission Impossible 3 is the first film made post September 11, 2001 and after US had gone to the Middle East. The story I felt was relevant for its day.

@wjzav1971

Жыл бұрын

@@mythdusterds The commentary on US politics maybe had some relevancy. I just found the spy parts very slow moving and boring. MI2 was incredibly stupid and VERY self-indulging on Tom Cruise' part. I get that they tried to play it more serious with the third part. I just found the movie very dry because of it. MI4 onwards got the right balance of entertainment and seriousness imho.

@jamesatkinsonja

Жыл бұрын

Personally Solman Lane takes the title of best villain, helped by being in two films and made a good pair with Walker in Fallout although Philip Seymore Hoffman was very good. I'll reserve judgement on Gabriel/The entity until part 2.

I really trust him. Unique honesty, he should go to politics! I mean Film Brain, not Cruise.

@bouncingbluesoul5270

Жыл бұрын

Funny ! Not..

A lot of people are saying the ending train sequence is reminiscent of Uncharted 2 and I am having a hard time seeing it otherwise, especially considering the fact that we had an Uncharted movie and was nowhere near as exciting as what we got here. Even Tom Cruise looks more like Nathan Drake than Tom Holland.

@jamesatkinsonja

Жыл бұрын

It's far more calling back to the 1996 Mission Impossible finale, especially with Kittridge+ Max/Max's Daughter, fighting on top of the train etc.

@mythdusterds

Жыл бұрын

I love the train sequence. It is actually better if you have a good speaker system because the sound helps increase the drama tension.

@wjzav1971

Жыл бұрын

At some point when the train cart that Cruise and Grace were on just kept falling I was like "I don't think this is how physics work. These train carts just have it out for Cruise" ^^

The idea of breaking this movie into parts seems...wrong headed. The point of Mission Impossible is that they're fun, thrilling action movies that don't have as much context or weight to them as modern superhero or franchise movies. Giving it two parts seems to make it something it's not and not what people want it to be

@jamesatkinsonja

Жыл бұрын

The two part element was confirmed back in 2019 [for releases in 21/22 before Covid delayed it] so was clearly inspired by Avengers Infinity War/Endgame but seems to be very much something Christopher McQuarrie wanted to do [given there has been greater continuity/continuing characters in the series since he joined with Ghost Protocol] and Fallout was pretty much 'part 2' of Rouge Nation [with the same main villain].

Am I the only one who thinks that Tom Cruise is REALLY getting too old for this?

Although Tom's action scenes is great , seeing Rebecca Ferguson's character end up being killed and becoming a corpse on the Venice bridge is hurt and heartbreaking

@jamesatkinsonja

Жыл бұрын

I had a similar reaction to the scene and it took me out of the movie for quite a while afterwards although I did get back into it when the mayhem on the train got going. There was an article on Nerdist suggesting her death is faked [with links like Phelps faking his death on a bridge in MI 96] but I don't buy it-this isn't Fast & Furious [shame as I loved the character].

I seem to be one of the few who actually hated this movie. My reasons: 1. (Prologue) Oh no, that's the story? Well, it won't be so bad so long as the characters don't (act 1) make the stupidest decisions possible within that premise 🤦. 2. The pairs of Atwell/Ferguson & Kirby/Klementieff are redundant. The actresses are fine, but as you get at they're superfluous/redundant characters. Only a single character was needed for each pair, so the result was more characters to be a romantic interest for Cruise, characters essentially there to be fridged, and of course... 3. The interminable padding. Every scene went on way too long, including the 4. Action scenes were unoriginal and uninspired, even just this year. I don't mean this to diminish stunt performers, but I've already seen these. Car chases? Better in John Wick. Train? Indy, even if that wasn't as in camera. Train car escape? The Lost World. There's a reason they're in that order, though, because I just do not buy this premise, and that just kills a movie for me.

@firefly4f4

Жыл бұрын

Just a follow-up, partial spoiler: When Luther said he was going offline, and gave Ethan the analog device, I facepalmed. Um, Luther, how is that going to help? It's already shown it can duplicate your voices to a headset. That shows it already knows how digital/analog conversion works. It's more nonsense than usual. WiFi/radio/etc is ultimately an analog process of electromagnetic waves, and since the entity has already shown it can manipulate those, then simply "going analog" doesn't help.

@bunsw2070

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comments. The world's full of unthinking, uncritical fanboys. Not Film Brain. I found him yesterday on his review of Blackbird and I thought this guy thinks during a movie a lot more then I ever would. Lol. I'm the same age a Cruise and have gotten tired of movies in general lately. I can't believe I used to be into them. Fallout was the only one in the series where I watched the entire movie, or at least where my eyes weren't glazed over and I was thinking of something actually interesting instead. I thought the chase scene in Paris and the kidnapping of the convict from the armoured car with it's twist was really beyond anything I could have ask for. Just excellent. I think Henry Cavill can't act for toffee. Maybe someday AI can save us from his kind? And that highly over produced fakeness caused me to start watching it 10 times and give up at the exchange in the tunnel at the beginning before finally plowing through and being pleasantly surprised. A long winded way of setting up the question, did you like the chase scene in Fallout? The one with Cruise on the motorcycle. Even the way he got away in the end was amazing and actually believable and a cool surprise. I've never been particularly into chase scenes. I actually had to look up who wrote the screenplay afterwards. I can't remember ever doing that before. I thought the helicopter chase went on a bit too long but I suspect these types of movies are made for people who go to the theater once or twice a year and want to feel like they got their money's worth. So we usually wind up with the tacked on, twist, extra long, bonus action scene to solidify my brain fog. At that point I've long since given up caring. So by comparison. Fallout's ending was the ideal compromise.

@firefly4f4

Жыл бұрын

​@@bunsw2070 I remember liking Fallout quite a bit, but I've also not watched it since seeing it in theatre either.

@jamesatkinsonja

Жыл бұрын

@@firefly4f4 There is a scene where Kittridge is inspecting an room using analogue technology which allows him to track Grace which establishes analogue as a viable alternative when competing with the entity. The headset used in the 'duplication' was digital, hence why they smashed there laptops when they discovered this. Besides, when Luther gives Ethan the analogue devices it's to act as a 'smoke signal' if either needs the other and strictly as an emergency measure as Luther gives Ethan no clue where he's going. Regarding point 2, Paris/White Widow are very different characters with different functions. Paris is a mostly silent heavy working for the Entity. The White Widow is a character who likes to manipulate both sides for her own gain.

Not very good.

@FilmBrain

Жыл бұрын

The film or the video (hopefully the former)?

@AMore429

11 ай бұрын

@@FilmBrain saw the film. Maybe it was great, but not for me. Car chase through Rome was painful to watch. Went on way too long. Same thing with the runaway train in last act. Everyone nowadays is a superhero.