I'm expecting too many comparison pieces come November...that's the problem with this coming first. Not sure upstage was right word but you get the point - Mendes definitely has living up to do and people are already hailing this has having beaten Bond...still have very high hopes.DoubleD wrote:Oh now I really need to see this asap.antovolk wrote: This is gonna upstage SPECTRE so much it's not even funny, I'm being dead serious.
Mission Impossible Rogue Nation (2015)
alright alright i'll see it
Considering my .... disenchantment with Spectre, I won't be surprised.antovolk wrote: This is gonna upstage SPECTRE so much it's not even funny, I'm being dead serious.
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People need to pump the brakes and putdown the crack pipe saying Rogue Nation has already trumped SPECTRE simply by being first.
RN will be good for a second viewing from me. (Why is it after every action piece and car chase, I wanted it to mimic Miller's style in Fury Road?)
I don't believe that McQuarrie and Cruise have enough to trump Mendes and Craig ... and John Logan ... and Hoyte ... and Lee Smith ... and Thomas Newman.
However ... in an actual fight....
RN will be good for a second viewing from me. (Why is it after every action piece and car chase, I wanted it to mimic Miller's style in Fury Road?)
I don't believe that McQuarrie and Cruise have enough to trump Mendes and Craig ... and John Logan ... and Hoyte ... and Lee Smith ... and Thomas Newman.
However ... in an actual fight....
eGregiovs wrote:I can neither confirm nor deny Rogue Nation is the best Mission: Impossible.
Full Review:Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
There’s a lot going on in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation. Like any great spy movie, there’s a complex and loosely convoluted plot of who’s who and what’s what and to whom does who owe which allegiance and—look, the inner-doings of the plot may elude some people. That’s an occupational hazard of the spy genre, of which this movie pays loving homage. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise, obviously) is back for another mission with a snappily written script that shines with the same sharpened wit as ‘90s classic The Usual Suspects, of which Rogue Nation writer/director Christopher McQuarrie wrote the famous screenplay. There’s a whirlpool of shady allegiances, double-crosses and double double-crosses, namely by femme fatale secret agent Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson), who’s one of the joys of the film. James Bond used to be the king of the how-did-they-do-that action scene, a crown now fought over by the fuselage-dropping, hallway-spinning, truck-flipping Christopher Nolan and, well, Mission: Impossible. Rogue Nation doesn’t buck the trend; each major stunt sequence wows.
The biggest plot twist in the Mission Impossible franchise is that it’s semi-autobiographical; each movie captures the essence of where Cruise is at in his life. Ethan Hunt began as a cocky agent with a beaming smug smile, became a family man a year after Cruise bounced on Oprah's couch shouting about love, lost the ‘love of his life’ before and during Ghost Protocol, and by the time he’s on his next mission in Rogue Nation, Ethan/Cruise is doubted, ridiculed, and sometimes called crazy.
And now in 2015, from the outset, Ethan’s virtuosity as an agent is called into question. It’s not 15 minutes into the rollicking plot before he’s ambushed and abducted, next seen in ankle and wrist cuffs—powerless. Vicariously, the IMF is demonized by a prickly-haired Alec Baldwin, CIA man Alan Hunley, who has knives out for Ethan’s accomplishments. Not skill he says, but luck. Even his team members, namely Renner’s William Brandt, question his sanity and ability to problem solve. Cruise and McQuarrie are telling a story with a peculiar poignance to Cruise himself, ultimately evolving Hunt as a character, Mission Impossible as a franchise, all while offering a strikingly honest portrait of one of the biggest movie stars on the planet. The meta-undercurrent of Ghost Protocol was infrequent but present enough to be widely observed. Here, it’s a priority. In its fifth outing, Mission Impossible continues to show it has its very own special kind of depth, a bizarre self-reflexive puzzle that keeps captivating. Once again, Mission Accomplished.
B+
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So, this movie was pretty damn good. Really good, in fact, although it will take a second viewing for me to decide where to rank this among the others.
However, I did have one problem with this movie that is admittedly nothing new in the spy genre:
Also, my theater was practically empty, which is very, very unusual.
However, I did have one problem with this movie that is admittedly nothing new in the spy genre:
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Yes, so much, to everything. Can't believe McQuarrie could be this good. Reacher was competent but come on, this was totally on another level, give him something even bigger now. Fantastic: snappy, adventurous and exciting script as well.antovolk wrote:Oh damn this was so good. 2nd best this summer after MMFR. Rebecca Ferguson MVP (and you were all saying she was gonna be the worst of the MI girls). Oh damn this was so good. 2nd best this summer after MMFR. Rebecca Ferguson MVP. McQ nailed this. Only thing - Baldwin ham. 8.5/10
Bravo for the whole team for polishing that third act so it wasn't your usual 'turd act' but actually something interesting (and destined to be lesser than Morocco, or first act, anyway) so I'll actually remember it for being unique; they went for the prestige effect rather than over the top find the villain action.
Edit: Lmao... nice...
Although, I'd say it was more like Ethan Hunt: Best of, done even better: plane entrance>cliff entrance, mask(s), motorcycle chase>pidgeon motorcycle chase, IMF disbanded - again, third act>turd act etc. But I'll take Oprah's couch as that second layer of reference, gladly.The biggest plot twist in the Mission Impossible franchise is that it’s semi-autobiographical; each movie captures the essence of where Cruise is at in his life. Ethan Hunt began as a cocky agent with a beaming smug smile, became a family man a year after Cruise bounced on Oprah's couch shouting about love, lost the ‘love of his life’ before and during Ghost Protocol, and by the time he’s on his next mission in Rogue Nation, Ethan/Cruise is doubted, ridiculed, and sometimes called crazy.
We've also returned to that point in the franchise where centerpiece (cooler set piece) was the thing, something actually thrilling and 'impossible' that the band needed to overcome along with the audience, which I loved.
Can't rate it right now... and especially against the others, too early to tell.
*UNCLE is first guys... then comes SPECTRE.
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
It kinda sucks that McQuarrie can't direct dialogue and drama as well as he can action, but it's serviceable enough. That doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things, because this is still a great thrill ride.
It even has a clever little espionage chess match thrown in there that feels like someone actually put some fucking thought into. Wait WHAT?! Good smart fun you say? Is that even possible? Granted, the extended dialogue scenes nearly dip into self-parody, but it's just restrained enough to stay engaging and actually quite tense, something I think Ghost Protocol's almost cartoonish antics seemed to miss.
While that film essentially devolved into a villain who doesn't really matter, and a fairly standard final act, with stakes that feel contrived, this film seems to go in the opposite direction and manages to stay pretty unpredictable.
Oh and that motherfucking car/bike chase tho ...
Spectre's better be at least half as good as this one.
oh and Rebecca Ferguson
It kinda sucks that McQuarrie can't direct dialogue and drama as well as he can action, but it's serviceable enough. That doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things, because this is still a great thrill ride.
It even has a clever little espionage chess match thrown in there that feels like someone actually put some fucking thought into. Wait WHAT?! Good smart fun you say? Is that even possible? Granted, the extended dialogue scenes nearly dip into self-parody, but it's just restrained enough to stay engaging and actually quite tense, something I think Ghost Protocol's almost cartoonish antics seemed to miss.
While that film essentially devolved into a villain who doesn't really matter, and a fairly standard final act, with stakes that feel contrived, this film seems to go in the opposite direction and manages to stay pretty unpredictable.
Oh and that motherfucking car/bike chase tho ...
Spectre's better be at least half as good as this one.
oh and Rebecca Ferguson
Dammit, i won't be watching this anytime soon.