04-26-2012, 06:27 AM
Ethan Hunt and his team must stop Russian Nuclear launch codes from falling into the hands of terrorists.
As an action film goes, it was fine. Lot's of explosions and fights and car chases and daring improbable stunts but not a lot of logic. The usual. Spoiler for instance why don't you just go and see if the door to the server room is opened rather than climb on the outside of the world's tallest building? End Spoiler You never do get a sense of the bad guy. He's just someone with a briefcase you have to track down. They tried to give the film some dimension by adding in Ethan Hunt's back story, but that was like adding a trailer to the back of the maserati. Not that this film is a maserati. The best thing about the film was Simon Pegg. He added some much needed levity into this very serious film.
As a Mission Impossible mission, I still think they need to watch the series and figure out why it was popular. In the TV show it seemed they were successful because they tricked and fooled and were more clever than the bad guys. You never get that sense in the movies. It is just a race from one big action piece to the next.
And then there is Jeremy Renner, the man who could be at the center of a bunch of tent pole movie series. They want him to take over for Cruise in the Mission Impossible series. He took over for Matt Damon in the Bourne movies. And he is the Avengers and Thor. It must be good to be Jeremy Renner at the moment. Can't wait for that Hurt Locker sequel.
As an action film goes, it was fine. Lot's of explosions and fights and car chases and daring improbable stunts but not a lot of logic. The usual. Spoiler for instance why don't you just go and see if the door to the server room is opened rather than climb on the outside of the world's tallest building? End Spoiler You never do get a sense of the bad guy. He's just someone with a briefcase you have to track down. They tried to give the film some dimension by adding in Ethan Hunt's back story, but that was like adding a trailer to the back of the maserati. Not that this film is a maserati. The best thing about the film was Simon Pegg. He added some much needed levity into this very serious film.
As a Mission Impossible mission, I still think they need to watch the series and figure out why it was popular. In the TV show it seemed they were successful because they tricked and fooled and were more clever than the bad guys. You never get that sense in the movies. It is just a race from one big action piece to the next.
And then there is Jeremy Renner, the man who could be at the center of a bunch of tent pole movie series. They want him to take over for Cruise in the Mission Impossible series. He took over for Matt Damon in the Bourne movies. And he is the Avengers and Thor. It must be good to be Jeremy Renner at the moment. Can't wait for that Hurt Locker sequel.
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit