Has anyone seen the new Mission Impossible?

[Anonymous]

It's probably best seen on the big screen but at almost three hours I don't think I can do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was disappointing. These movies are supposed to be fun, but it was alternately boring or too intense (the underwater scenes) to be enjoyable. And like a PP says, Cruise is made out to be the messiah. The film took itself way too seriously. It was just an ego trip.

My personal favorite one was Ghost Protocol, which was also the silliest. When they take themselves too seriously it doesn't work as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone seen the latest Mission Impossible yet, and if so how was it? I like the last one but it was a little long/draggy.

Does TC top the stunt where he drives off the cliff on a motorcylcle??

Longer and draggier. If it weren't terrible they wouldn't be advertising it as "the last one"

[Anonymous]

I see the ads for it and thought is Tom Cruise still a thing? They feel like movies made for foreign countries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw it today. This was such a silly movie, but I guess it’s fun enough if you just want to watch ridiculous action sequences for 3 hours. The story is convoluted, so many plot holes, a couple outright annoying characters (really tempted to throw popcorn anytime Gabriel was onscreen), and Tom Cruise is just getting too old to run in his underwear (loose skin bouncing is not hot). And his soft old man skin can’t handle anymore skydiving or hanging-off-the-side-of-a-plane stunts. The skin flapping…I’m telling you…not good.

OP here. I saw the movie and I’m crying with laughter at this post! I thought the movie was ok. I like big screens for action and spy thriller movies, and there were lots of good moments and fantastic scenery. And I agree with the PP who said TC is one of the last big Movie Stars. But I laughed out loud in the theater at some of the ridiculous plot moments, which should have been tongue in cheek but weren’t. It needed some trimming, some more texture (maybe in the political stuff), more gadgets, and…I don’t know. Both something less and something more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw it today. This was such a silly movie, but I guess it’s fun enough if you just want to watch ridiculous action sequences for 3 hours. The story is convoluted, so many plot holes, a couple outright annoying characters (really tempted to throw popcorn anytime Gabriel was onscreen), and Tom Cruise is just getting too old to run in his underwear (loose skin bouncing is not hot). And his soft old man skin can’t handle anymore skydiving or hanging-off-the-side-of-a-plane stunts. The skin flapping…I’m telling you…not good.

OP here. I saw the movie and I’m crying with laughter at this post! I thought the movie was ok. I like big screens for action and spy thriller movies, and there were lots of good moments and fantastic scenery. And I agree with the PP who said TC is one of the last big Movie Stars. But I laughed out loud in the theater at some of the ridiculous plot moments, which should have been tongue in cheek but weren’t. It needed some trimming, some more texture (maybe in the political stuff), more gadgets, and…I don’t know. Both something less and something more.

I'm one of the earlier PPs who loved it. See, I have no problem laughing at TC and also admiring his stunts. Perhaps the public who doesn't appreciate MI does not understand what it takes, from a planning and training and physicality perspective, to do the crazy stunts. A lot of acrobatics in other films are done in studio, with a green screen, and large mattresses in case you fall. Here the actor is actually on the wing of a plane while it's flying. The wind pressure is incredibly strong, and he can hardly breathe. The faces he makes are the same one you'd make if you got a faceful at 145 mph - regardless of age. The entire point of a Tom Cruise movie is to transport you to mostly real locations, with real action. They went to Svalbard, Alaska and South Africa. He specified that the underwater scenes were shot in an enormous tank, big enough to accommodate the submarine that does actually roll downhill.

Yes, the plot is laughably ridiculous, but his dedication to his craft forces respect.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if Suri will see it.

[Anonymous]

Not paying money to see anything with that Scientology freak in it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not paying money to see anything with that Scientology freak in it.

Same

[Anonymous]

No. Tom cruise is insane and a bad person. I will not support anytbing he does anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if Suri will see it.

My guess would be no. I heard recently that she dropped her last name. I didn't follow up to see if that is true or if she's going by Suri or Suri Holmes or what.

I wonder how she feels about him?

[Anonymous]

Disappointed