Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (Christopher McQuarrie)

[Morris Schæffer]

Finally caught it this weekend. Ton of fun! But I think I preferred parts 3 and 4 more. My biggest complaint was there wasnt any mention of his wife. I feel like there wasnt closure on that plot which was a big part of 3 and 4, and because of that it affected the maybe yes maybe no love interest angle relationship.

Of all the things to complain about...

Didn't Ghost Protocol make it clear there was closure? In the sense that they couldn't see each other again because then she'd be a target again.

I'm willing to entertain the notion that perhaps there's something I'm missing here and that it might have warranted a few lines of dialogue in Rogue Nation, but still not the kinda complaint I expected from anyone.

[Dukefrukem]

I dont know guys. I suppose the premise was OK but the action didn't feel very well thought out. I thought the "impossible" mission was the worst of the franchise. Worst than MI2. The whole walking camera security area was stupid.

[Dukefrukem]

1 > 4 > 3 > 2

1 > 4 > 3 > 5 > 2

[Dukefrukem]

Side note: I paid $40 for two tickets to see this today.

Double You Tee Eff?

[number8]

"Ethan Hunt is the living manifestation of destiny, Lemon."

[Skitch]

Of all the things to complain about...

Didn't Ghost Protocol make it clear there was closure? In the sense that they couldn't see each other again because then she'd be a target again.

I'm willing to entertain the notion that perhaps there's something I'm missing here and that it might have warranted a few lines of dialogue in Rogue Nation, but still not the kinda complaint I expected from anyone.

I know, , but I thought the stuff with his wife was really interesting...and to be fair, it was a big part of the last two movies. I thought it was left kind of vague. Its not really a complaint as much as "I wish they would have".

[Stay Puft]

Good movie. Halo 5/5.

[number8]

Hahaha, this is great: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cul...ckbuster-movie

Performances of “Turandot” are bedevilled by the problem of the ending, which Puccini tragically did not live to write. Here, the police decide the issue by removing the singers from the stage.

[transmogrifier]

And the villains in the MI series are seriously dull.

And this latest one might be the dullest of them all.

This seems to be going through the motions, and the third act is just an anti-climactic mess. It can be funny at times, but this is more disposable than usual. Mild nay.

1=3=4>2=5 or something like that.

[transmogrifier]

....it was a bit stunning to read that they were re-shooting the ending as recently as mid-June. !

It shows.

[Dukefrukem]

1 > 4 > 3 > 5 > 2

I'm happy to report that after an extensive rewatch of this franchise, this ranking still remains true.

This one is very flimsy in plot, scope and dialog, which feels like a huge letdown coming off Bird's set pieces and banter. I liked the quick intro mission (everyone remember VX Gas from the Rock) and the quick tie-ins to not one previous MI movie, but two. We get Alec Bawldin bringing up the NoC list mission from the first movie, and a quick graphic of the nuclear warhead skipping off San Francisco building crashing into the bay from Bird's movie. Later, Hunt rides a motorcycle which I'm certain is a throwback to MI2, showing the audience that Hunt hasn't forgotten how to ride one. But then 10 minutes later, Golly Gee, Hunt is disavowed AGAIN. This time a secret organization called the Syndicate, known by no one, and unclear of their motives, becomes Hunt's newest passion to defeat.

Now we have, by far, the dumbest Impossible Mission in the series, where Hunt needs to swim into an underwater cooling system, which is supposed to only COOL a massive computer, but instead it was built to have robots switch out ID cards that hold the security profiles of how people walk through a hallway. ... If you thought the human sized computer was dumb in Ghost Protocol, this is something that should be in xXx not Mission Impossible.

I'm starting to see a trend in JJ Abrams related projects where "the plan" is so dumb or lazy, the movie actually makes a point to joke about it (breaking the 4th wall). Harrison Ford does it Star Wars the Force Awakens when they talk about blowing up the Starkiller Base: "So it's big... How do we blow it up... there's always a way to do that".



And Simon Pegg does it in this movie when they are discussing Hunt holding his breath for 3 minutes. "You can do that... don't worry about him, all he has to do is install the fake profile before I get to the gate analysis. you said it yourself it's the only way. <scoff> that doesn't sound impossible." In the words of my friend DeadandMessedUp- Hot Potato Exposition.



Later in the movie, after extracting the data they needed, they go on a nice car chase through the streets of Morocco... come to find out in the most deus ex machina way, Benji had a copy the entire time, making the chase utterly pointless.

And finally, if we weren't already at the point where the script completely feel apart, with 10 minutes left tin the film we get the Syndicate's motivation, "Killing to bring about change". You might as well have had him say nothing and let it be the McGuffin. Oh wait, they already did that in MI3.