― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link
X-Men movies are great, kingfish otm for why too. (next one's gonna BLOOOOOOWWWWWW)
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Ming the Mercilessall the bond books were written in the 50s, etc
― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link
??? That's the best Bond movie by fucking miles. The "realistic"-not-really acting served the "realistic"-not-really plot perfectly. Wayne Newton as televangelist providing cover for Davi drug op? GREAT.
― adam (adam), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link
A character basically hissing "I'm evil" can usu be taken about as seriously as that Colbert critic announcing "I'm a funny guy..."
Next MI: Cruise vs Montalban as Khan. "You will be ber-ried a-li-ive..."
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
some good, some bad, some retarded plot twists, and some simon pegg(who's good in his two scenes as fumbly britishes computer guy)
― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 7 May 2006 02:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 7 May 2006 02:51 (eighteen years ago) link
otm! the only scene in this movie that actually felt like "mission impossible" was the aforementioned vatican city sequence, which happened to be the most entertaining part of the movie.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 7 May 2006 02:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Sunday, 7 May 2006 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link
many xposts - Irons is great in Die Hard With A Vengeance!
― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 7 May 2006 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 7 May 2006 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Sunday, 7 May 2006 23:56 (eighteen years ago) link
well, the thing is, i don't think you need them to be all that non-descript e.g. Ving Rhames is great in his role, which is admittedly just being a Ving Rhames-type incarnated as an operative. There's plenty of value in a well-contructed team of folks doing something; like a semi-crazy helicopter pilot, a tough mechanic/driver/demolitions expert, a smooth-talkin' chameleon/covert ops type, and a cigar-chomping leader who loves it when a plan comes together.
For instance.
― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 8 May 2006 00:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Monday, 8 May 2006 01:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Monday, 8 May 2006 02:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Monday, 8 May 2006 04:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― INSANE CLOWN FOSSE (Adrian Langston), Monday, 8 May 2006 07:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Monday, 8 May 2006 07:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Actually looking at IMDB now it appears he was involved in all three. Still the second one was pretty awful.
― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 8 May 2006 07:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 8 May 2006 08:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Monday, 8 May 2006 08:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 May 2006 09:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Monday, 8 May 2006 09:08 (eighteen years ago) link
this is of course baring in mind
A) it stared and was produced tom cruise
B) it was the third part in a franchise where ultimately very little can change between films (bar the love interests of course)
C)i haven't seen 24 which from my limited knowledge of this seemed to bare a passing resemblence too
― secondhandnews (secondhandnews), Monday, 8 May 2006 10:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Of course much redundancy if you have seen the first two series of both 24 and Alias, and was kind of like True Lies without the misjudged gags (so in that way a lot better). Also, it might be a lot like TV series, BUT IS A FILM with plus and minuses of that.
― Pete (Pete), Monday, 8 May 2006 10:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Monday, 8 May 2006 10:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― secondhandnews (secondhandnews), Monday, 8 May 2006 10:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 8 May 2006 12:30 (eighteen years ago) link
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/archives/2006/05/upside_of_taps.php
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 8 May 2006 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 8 May 2006 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 12:52 (eighteen years ago) link
how do i get literary referece?
― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― p@reene (Pareene), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link
If you want to see a really good Spy Film, watch Munich. Its gotta be the best one ever. Action packed, edge of your seat kinda stuff.
― brontosaur (brontosaur), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link
lots of very entertaining set pieces, well-written, suprisingly well-directed, well-acted
and it has my crush from kiss kiss bang bang in it!
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link
just for the delivery
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link
big fan of this one. getting this out of the way, i thought the Ethan/Ilsa romance which was only hinted at maybe didn't work, only because when she died it didn't feel heavy enough for someone that close to him, and while i don't want that type of heaviness for this story since it becomes an albatross on the narrative in these types of films (see: latter Craig Bonds), it felt a bit muted as far as a moment. She was a fantastic character who arguably revived the series as much as McQuarrie, maybe she deserved a bit better. but maybe they were just coming to a dead end with the part and maybe Ferguson was done playing that role and had other things she wanted to commit her time to. i suspect that might be the case. which is cool, she's a fantastic actor.
Cruise did his usual Cruise stuff and as the solid center of the franchise he's both likable and clearly insane to do what he does IRL. i appreciate his commitment to the craft. There's not much more to say about him.
Hayley Atwell is great, i also give a shoutout to her wardrobe and generally the duplicitous nature of the character really serves the narrative well, it's less about protecting her but protecting her while keeping an eye on her because she's liable to both escape and steal everything from you while doing so. which works to keep the chase going through various countries and setpieces the entire time. the car chase was particularly excellent, maybe not quite as impactful as the Ilsa pursuit in Rogue Nation but more gleefully demented.
Speaking of demented, i'm guessing Pom Klementieff really appreciated being given a shot to play a character completely the opposite of Mantis. she was clearly having a great time there, my kid's favorite part was her cackling while driving that armored vehicle over and through various obstacles. It's a very Xenia Onatopp type role. i also liked the brutality of the twist involving her, where Gabriel's deduction is correct but perhaps from the way the story plays out we can also deduce he played himself and caused what he correctly thought would occur to actually happen in the end.
Esai Morales was a good choice for the Gabriel part, he's a very good actor who never tips over into absurdity despite this being a potentially absurd role, and i also just like to see an underrated performer being given a juicy part along these lines, going mano a mano with Tom Cruise on top of a train, knife fighting his way across Europe, etc. i feel like perhaps Gabriel didn't need to be a guy from Ethan's past, that was a bit too "Silva in Skyfall" to me, but this film fortunately didn't turn into a therapy session, it just kept moving.
it was nice to see Czerny back in that role, with some good callbacks to his part in the first film. Vanessa Kirby was good too. everyone was good!
gonna be psyched to see how the story wraps up. from what i've read, there was the thought that MI:8 would wrap the franchise up, but it seems like it'll continue on for a bit longer. I hope so, it's probably the only ongoing action franchise i have confidence in as far as consistent QC, the Abrams entry aside.
i almost forgot about it in the midst of the rest of the film, but the opening scene with the Russian submarine is a great one, with such a bleak and haunting final shot.
― omar little, Monday, 23 October 2023 17:00 (seven months ago) link
Yeah as a grim miniadventure it was pretty great (and the actual final shot of the film appropriately fucked up and ominous).
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 October 2023 17:20 (seven months ago) link
Pom Klementieff
Was not really a fan of this movie, but particularly didn't like her character, tbh. Of course these movies are innately ridiculous, but I'm trying to think of other instances/characters that were as outright cartoonish. She reminded me, yeah, of a few colorful Bond henchpersons (Onatopp, May Day), but also a particular strain of eccentric movie assassins, not just like you may find in the heightened (sur)reality of "John Wick," but, like, Sam Phillips in "Die Hard 3," Lucy Liu in "Payback." Kind of took me out a bit.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 October 2023 17:28 (seven months ago) link
"Mission: Impossible: Part Seven: Part 2" bumped to 2025! The future!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 October 2023 23:49 (seven months ago) link
I don't know, something like that can't even begin to bother me in this type of movie. They are sort of the American Bond films at this point, to an extent. The outlandishness will periodically come with a territory, and it's all in good fun. I've never been taken out of any of these movies by anything other than III being mostly bad.
― omar little, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 01:02 (seven months ago) link
xpost -- Ah that sucks but the longer the SAG strike goes on...
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 01:52 (seven months ago) link