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While people were excited about this movie, it didn't seem like it had that air of breathless expectation around it like "Top Gun: Maverick" had. The previous Mission was the same way -- I'm not sure why.
We actually have not played this one yet and may never play it, due to Paramount's decision to open it the same day as "Lilo and Stitch" and within a couple weeks of about four dozen other big movies, instead of waiting until mid-summer or late summer when they 'd have had more calendar space. So we wound up seeing it in Las Vegas during a vacation trip there. (The Cinemark theater in the Orleans hotel/casino).
It's been a couple of weeks since we saw the movie and I can't remember a lot of the storyline - because I couldn't really follow it. I was wondering how they would work the now-famous biplane sequence into the story -- I won't spoil here how they did it -- but like a lot of the action scenes in the movie, I felt like it went on too long. Ditto for the fight scenes. It's like they say "hey, we've got stunt footage of Tom Cruise, we need to use every m-f-ing bit of it, because he's crazy." (Which I agree, yes, he is.)
The biplane sequence is amazing, but it does not top the train wreck sequence from the last movie. That thing was a masterpiece of nail-biting moviemaking.
The story here involves an "A.I." type entity, known as ... The Entity. It's a typical by-the-numbers story in which the Entity is isolated and vanquished. I'm not sure how they do it, but you know they're going to do it, so this is no spoiler. The fun of the M:I movies is in seeing how they do it.
Supposedly this movie ties up a lot of loose ends from the series, and also has a lot of callbacks and easter eggs. I haven't seen the other movies in many years, so I can't speak to any of that, but I think we're going to play the movie in a couple of weeks to fill a hole in the schedule, so it'll be fun to see what people have to say about it afterwards.
The word is (now that F-1 is a hit) that Tom Cruise is looking at doing a sequel to "Days of Thunder," which is also about car racing. I hope he does it, I remember liking that movie.
Mission Impossible, though? I'll give it a three out of five stars. It was a rollicking fun ride, incomprehensible story notwithstanding.
We actually have not played this one yet and may never play it, due to Paramount's decision to open it the same day as "Lilo and Stitch" and within a couple weeks of about four dozen other big movies, instead of waiting until mid-summer or late summer when they 'd have had more calendar space. So we wound up seeing it in Las Vegas during a vacation trip there. (The Cinemark theater in the Orleans hotel/casino).
It's been a couple of weeks since we saw the movie and I can't remember a lot of the storyline - because I couldn't really follow it. I was wondering how they would work the now-famous biplane sequence into the story -- I won't spoil here how they did it -- but like a lot of the action scenes in the movie, I felt like it went on too long. Ditto for the fight scenes. It's like they say "hey, we've got stunt footage of Tom Cruise, we need to use every m-f-ing bit of it, because he's crazy." (Which I agree, yes, he is.)
The biplane sequence is amazing, but it does not top the train wreck sequence from the last movie. That thing was a masterpiece of nail-biting moviemaking.
The story here involves an "A.I." type entity, known as ... The Entity. It's a typical by-the-numbers story in which the Entity is isolated and vanquished. I'm not sure how they do it, but you know they're going to do it, so this is no spoiler. The fun of the M:I movies is in seeing how they do it.
Supposedly this movie ties up a lot of loose ends from the series, and also has a lot of callbacks and easter eggs. I haven't seen the other movies in many years, so I can't speak to any of that, but I think we're going to play the movie in a couple of weeks to fill a hole in the schedule, so it'll be fun to see what people have to say about it afterwards.
The word is (now that F-1 is a hit) that Tom Cruise is looking at doing a sequel to "Days of Thunder," which is also about car racing. I hope he does it, I remember liking that movie.
Mission Impossible, though? I'll give it a three out of five stars. It was a rollicking fun ride, incomprehensible story notwithstanding.
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