Mission Impossible: Fallout

[Drunk Monk]

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Now 5.  This is 5, right?  I've lost count.

After watching IM4, I was like 'wtf happened in IM3?' Fortunately I reviewed it here so I could check my DOOMemory banks.  IM1 I remember because it was Depalma and they totally mucked up Phelps.  MI2 had that absurd motorcycle duel and it was John Woo.  IM3 was J.J. Abrams, which I knew, but forgot I knew.  I also forget Maggie Q was in it.

Same thing happened.  After watching IM5, I was like 'wth happened in IM4?'  There were references to it with Ethan's past women who look too much alike for me to distinguish all the time, adding to the confusion.  Renner is out.  Nobody misses him when he's off the IM or the Avengers.  He's so negligible.  Pegg is in.  If you want to make any franchise reboot entertaining, add Pegg.  Rhames is in too and I've decided he's the bastard child of the original IMF's Barney and Willy.  

This is more of the same - enjoyable with panoramic action pieces (kinda wished I saw it on the big screen).  Tom does some cool stunts - hard to say where the CGI begins but there's some stuff that's clearly Tom like the high altitude jumps.  He's another vampire - doesn't freakin age.  Pegg adds levity. Could've used more of him.  Rhames is oddly dramatic, which doesn't quite work.  The bathroom fight is pretty tight choreographically.  Great Wolf cameo.  All of the dream sequences and mask ruses were predictable.  I loved the Paris scenes because I could say 'We were right there! right where Tom is standing!'  In a chase scene, they went right past our fav crepe place and magically ended up on the Champ de Elysees in the next scene, kinda like how SF dimensionally folds from the Golden Gate to Chinatown with one turn in movies.  

Bottom line - if you enjoy this franchise, you'll enjoy this too.  It's mindless fluff but spectacular.  And Tom is still cool in that insufferable way that's so him.  

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

I like my Euro Spy Thrillers, so I tend to like...#3, #4, and this one. My beef with this one was that it just tried too hard at the end. Sit on the edge of your seat for too long and your butt goes numb. It could have lost 15 minutes and no one would have missed them.

Sets up #6. Yes, I'll see it.

DM: I did see it on the big screen, and it was worth the $.

[Drunk Monk]

The helicopter finale was ridiculous but it allowed my to launch into some mansplainin about John Woo’s legacy with the franchise and his obsession with copter crashes.

[Greg]

Seen it. Reveled in the implausibility of it all. I guessed all the fake outs.

For the first time, it seemed like a Mission:Impossible episode with the masks and the self destruct at the beginning. I think they finally an episode of the show they were doing.

The most impressive thing for me is how they made great use of their locations especially in London and Paris. You got a great sense you were in those cities as they roared by all the famous landmarks. That basement in Belfast not so much. I loved the on foot chase through London across the bridge and then into the Tate Modern. I really wished they had a behind the scenes video on the DVD to show which stunts were real and which were CGI. But that Tom does like his stunts.

I will say he is looking a little bit creakier these days. He's still in great shape but there is starting to be some wrinkling on the once glistening skin.