Movies: Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

[I am not exposed]

What is the best movie from the MI series ?

The first one. From 3 onwards they are all seem like the same movie to me.

The 2nd one is ridiculous but at least it is memorable and I remember key plot details. The ones after are just a blur. John Woo action scenes were cool and hip at the time, but they do look dated these days.

3rd one was the last one I saw at the cinema. I just watched it again last night for the first time since I saw it at the cinema. Apart from Philip Seymour Hoffman being a terrific actor, this is a weak film. Everything J.J. Abrams touches is medicore at best. I'm not surprised I gave up watching mission impossible films at the cinema after this one.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

What is the best movie from the MI series ?

The first one for me, by some margin. Ghost Protocol maybe second, or M:I 3, which has the better "villain". Fallout is also pretty good.

 

[FilHronek Orchestra]

A friend of mine asked me if I'd go see this. I'm pretty sure I haven't seen any of the previous seven and have no intention of doing so. Am I gonna be able to catch up all the way enough by giving it a good fifteen minutes and reading whatever Wikipedia provides for the plot for all of 'em?

 

[The Macho Man]

A friend of mine asked me if I'd go see this. I'm pretty sure I haven't seen any of the previous seven and have no intention of doing so. Am I gonna be able to catch up all the way enough by giving it a good fifteen minutes and reading whatever Wikipedia provides for the plot for all of 'em?

I mean they're mostly very solid to good popcorn flicks. As far as the plot? Eh watch it for Tom Cruise doing crazy shit.

 

[FilHronek Orchestra]

I mean they're mostly very solid to good popcorn flicks. As far as the plot? Eh watch it for Tom Cruise doing crazy shit.

It's very un-me to be willing to jump into something wayyyyyyyy in progress. I'm gonna give it a go like you're saying here. Gonna watch Tom Cruise do crazy shit.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

A friend of mine asked me if I'd go see this. I'm pretty sure I haven't seen any of the previous seven and have no intention of doing so. Am I gonna be able to catch up all the way enough by giving it a good fifteen minutes and reading whatever Wikipedia provides for the plot for all of 'em?

I haven't seen the final one (might go Wednesday), but you'll want to watch (or read on) Dead Reckoning part 1. The plot was trying to be kind of "complex", so you won't enjoy trying to catch up if you go with no background. None of the other films matter.

 

[David71]

i just finished it saw it loved it. the action the story beautiful. tom cruise one of my favourite actors of all time always delivers!. "spoiler alert" has ties to the first movie.

 

[Brodeur]

A friend of mine asked me if I'd go see this. I'm pretty sure I haven't seen any of the previous seven and have no intention of doing so. Am I gonna be able to catch up all the way enough by giving it a good fifteen minutes and reading whatever Wikipedia provides for the plot for all of 'em?

This popped up in my feed last week and seemed like a good enough catch up. Obviously some of the characters who have been in multiple movies wouldn't quite have the same gravity without a few years between movies.

They seemed pretty hard to try to tie some plot points in the new movie to the earlier ones. Some unnecessarily IMO.

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As for the Final Reckoning, it was enjoyable but wasn't my favorite of the series. Still crazy to me that I was in high school when I saw the first movie.

Some scattered thoughts, I'll put it in spoilers just in case:

Spoiler

I didn't realize the actor who played Gabriel was brother in La Bamba. I was hoping his character would have gotten a bit better of an ending, the slapstick caught me off guard.

I wish I hadn't watched the trailers which showed William Donloe. That would have been a fun geeky reveal for me, although I was hoping that he was somehow the guy behind The Entity and this was him exacting his revenge for being jettisoned.

On the flip side, the Jim Phelps Jr reveal didn't do anything for me. Similarly I didn't enjoy the Rabbit's Foot being retconned to being source code.

The AI threat wasn't too appealing to me for the past two movies. I couldn't quite get my head around Luther somehow being the only one who could program a countermeasure.

 

[Sad People]

What is the best movie from the MI series ?

The first one imo. The only one that actually felt like a spy movie. The one with Philip Seymour Hoffman is probably after that.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

The first one for me, by some margin. Ghost Protocol maybe second, or M:I 3, which has the better "villain". Fallout is also pretty good.

Looks like I contradicted the ratings I gave the films on my last watch... So I'd go:

Mission Impossible
Ghost Protocole
Fallout
MI: 3
Dead Reckoning
Rogue Nation
MI: 2
Final Reckoning - damn what a stupid borefest

 

[KallioWeHardlyKnewYe]

My ranking (and definite tiers)

1. Fallout
2. Ghost Protocol
3. I
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4. Rogue Nation
5. Dead Reckoning
6. III
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7. II
8. Final Reckoning

The top 3 are a bit of a coin flip for me. One is top-to-bottom the best and is BLESSEDLY (as the series would progress) to the point. But I feel like the highs of Fallout and Ghost Protocol are pretty dang high.

I have a weird relationship with Fallout in that it's absolutely too long and kinda exhausting ... and yet I can never pinpoint a thing I'd change about it.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

My ranking (and definite tiers)

1. Fallout
2. Ghost Protocol
3. I
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4. Rogue Nation
5. Dead Reckoning
6. III
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7. II
8. Final Reckoning

The top 3 are a bit of a coin flip for me. One is top-to-bottom the best and is BLESSEDLY (as the series would progress) to the point. But I feel like the highs of Fallout and Ghost Protocol are pretty dang high.

I have a weird relationship with Fallout in that it's absolutely too long and kinda exhausting ... and yet I can never pinpoint a thing I'd change about it.

Kind of close to mine. But if I had to go with closed sections, I'd go:

1
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Ghost P
Falllout
3
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Dead R
Rogue N
2
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Final R

As you said, some fun films on top, but I feel only one is really good.

 

[alko]

Saw it. Its ok, but not on the level of Ghost Protocol.

I think, this franchise must have one more movie with Cruise: In the space. Then they can close it and prepare for some restart.

Btw. When i think about this franchise, did the have some action in South America?