Movies MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT v.2 (Dragonlord's Review)

[SmilinDesperado]

Yes idiot, otherwise I wouldn't be specific with what I wrote in the spoiler tags.

Lol you're the idiot that couldn't understand the shit that they SHOWED and explained to you in the movie.
All of your little rants were answered if you paid attention.
Lol your first rant especially was egregiously stupid

 

[SSgt Dickweed]

Lol you're the idiot that couldn't understand the shit that they SHOWED and explained to you in the movie.
All of your little rants were answered if you paid attention.
Lol your first rant especially was egregiously stupid

Spoiler

No, the plot of the movie was stupid. What kind of hero risks 1/3 of the world's population to save one dude who asked not to be saved?

And then for Alec's Baldwin character to later justify that scene so that all the sheeple in the audience could go "yeah, yeah, makes sense" like true mouth breathers. Ugh!

I'm a fucking terrorist and I have two nukes, why the fuck do I put those two in the same area? Shouldn't I let them go off in two different cities to make more damage? If only there was an act in history to support this.....oh wait, there WAS! Hiroshima and Nagasaki. If the point is to nuke your opponent to submission, use one nuke in a different city, dumbass!!

Gratuitous action scenes don't work even if they're well made if the plot doesn't make any sense.

 

[VitorReem]

I’m going with dragon on this one. I’m gonna say a solid 7.

Spoiler

Movie was WAY too long for no reason

Henry Cavill being a villain was a waste of him and their brief chemistry. He would have made a much better new member of the team. Butting heads for awhile but eventually coming around and helping out.

The plot was OK

Those motorcycle scenes were phenomenal Cruise is stupid talented and has giant balls but it all comes off great on screen when you can clearly see it’s him doing everything. Halo jump was awesome too.

 

[SmilinDesperado]

My rants:

Spoiler

Hunt had the chance to recover the 3 plutonium balls but chose to save the one black guy? Because black guys don't die first in movies right?

If Cavill was Lark, why did he HALO jump with Ethan down to Paris? Why wasn't he in Paris to begin with? Tom just wanted to do the HALO scene and shoehorned it into the movie.

And why did real Lark get into a fistfight with Fake Lark? Who was Fake Lark in the first place? The actor was obviously a Chinese actor brought in to get Chinese viewers.

This movie is just so Ethan Hunt-centric the way the production is Tom Cruise-centric. And I get that Tom Cruise is both the star and architect of this franchise, but the movie really is just Tom Cruise: Watch How Awesome I Am.

Why was Ethan's wife even in the movie? You got a Doctors without Borders chick diffusing a nuclear bomb with a hacker? WHAT?

And in the 15 minutes they need to diffuse the bomb, MI6 girl and Simon Pegg had time to search half the base for a nuke, go into a house and have a three-act fight scene with Lane, and diffuse the bomb? While that was going on, Hunt simultaneously learns how to climb to a chopper from the payload, commandeer the chopper, learn to fly it, ram he other chopper, and get into another three-act fight scene with Lark Kent? Huh?

Why did Hunt even need to go after the detonator? Because lazy writing says the two nukes must be disarmed simultaneously after the detonator has been detonated? Weren't the nukes already detonated by timer? Who comes up with this shit?

Spoiler

lol You say "black guy" as if we were talking about a gerbil. This is his friend we're talking about. Probably his BEST friend. There are 6 MI movies, and "black guy" has been in ALL of them. The first movie came out in 1997. Do you think he was just going to easily let his best friend die if he has the power to save him?
And you're not even setting up the scene correctly. The way that you are describing it, it's like the bad guy had one finger on a nuclear bomb button, and the other finger is on the trigger of a gun pointed at his friend's head, and Cruise chose his friend.
That's NOT what happened. The plutonium was NEXT to Cruise. He had no reason to believe that it would get taken from him. Holding "the black guy" hostage was just a distraction so that another bad guy could swipe the brief case.
By Cruise firing his weapon at the bulletproof vest of his friend, the only life he knowingly put in danger, was his friend''s. He didn't expect for the plutonium to be stolen from him from behind.

Furthermore, the theme of "The few vs the many" was a theme they brought up THROUGHOUT the movie. The CIA boss and Lark criticized Hunt for it, the secretary brought it up, and the theme was explored multiple times with his teammates, as well as the situations he had to go through when he was undercover. (changing the plan so that the police didn't die, and not just killing that female cop. If 1/3 of the population was in danger, then , by your logic, he should have just killed all the cops. THAT was the moral dilemma the movie discussed. )

The bearded, main bad guy did NOT want Cruise to die. He wanted to get revenge, and wanted him to suffer. 'John Lark' had to keep Hunt alive because that is what the main bad dude ordered.
Hunt's ex-wife was in the movie because the bad guy wanted her to die, along with anyone else Hunt cared about. The wife and the doctor said that they got a sudden call about a village that needed help....that wasn't a coincidence. It was by design. By the bad guy.
Lark was upset with bearded bad guy because he was making the mission personal, but if he didn't follow through on his instructions then he wouldn't get the nukes.

lol the rest of your rants are nonsense. It's an action movie! You really expect them to go by the 15 minute time countdown in real life? The point was, that there is a time limit, they need to get shit done quick.
And anyways, Iisla SAW the main bad guy standing outside, which is how she found the bomb.
A super spy/soldier figured out how to steer and crash a helicopter??? Wow. So much unbelievable.
A movie starring Tom Cruise being mostly about Tom Cruise's character......wow...crazyyyyyyyy shit.
Jesus Christ, man.

 

[minute bull]

Ethan Hunt is a Mary Sue.

 

[greygoose]

Still waiting to see it, but does Ving Rhames do anything? Right now, he just seems like a wasteful/burdensome character. Can't they just get someone who is in shape and not a biscuit shy of 350lbs

 

[Deleted member 391673]

Voted 8 but should've given it a 9. That bathroom scene was epic.

The bathroom scene was cool. It had a good groove to it as the techno beat in the background kept the pace.

 

[SSgt Dickweed]

Ethan Hunt is a Mary Sue.

Ethan Hunt:

 

[SSgt Dickweed]

Spoiler

lol You say "black guy" as if we were talking about a gerbil. This is his friend we're talking about. Probably his BEST friend. There are 6 MI movies, and "black guy" has been in ALL of them. The first movie came out in 1997. Do you think he was just going to easily let his best friend die if he has the power to save him?
And you're not even setting up the scene correctly. The way that you are describing it, it's like the bad guy had one finger on a nuclear bomb button, and the other finger is on the trigger of a gun pointed at his friend's head, and Cruise chose his friend.
That's NOT what happened. The plutonium was NEXT to Cruise. He had no reason to believe that it would get taken from him. Holding "the black guy" hostage was just a distraction so that another bad guy could swipe the brief case.
By Cruise firing his weapon at the bulletproof vest of his friend, the only life he knowingly put in danger, was his friend''s. He didn't expect for the plutonium to be stolen from him from behind.

Furthermore, the theme of "The few vs the many" was a theme they brought up THROUGHOUT the movie. The CIA boss and Lark criticized Hunt for it, the secretary brought it up, and the theme was explored multiple times with his teammates, as well as the situations he had to go through when he was undercover. (changing the plan so that the police didn't die, and not just killing that female cop. If 1/3 of the population was in danger, then , by your logic, he should have just killed all the cops. THAT was the moral dilemma the movie discussed. )

The bearded, main bad guy did NOT want Cruise to die. He wanted to get revenge, and wanted him to suffer. 'John Lark' had to keep Hunt alive because that is what the main bad dude ordered.
Hunt's ex-wife was in the movie because the bad guy wanted her to die, along with anyone else Hunt cared about. The wife and the doctor said that they got a sudden call about a village that needed help....that wasn't a coincidence. It was by design. By the bad guy.
Lark was upset with bearded bad guy because he was making the mission personal, but if he didn't follow through on his instructions then he wouldn't get the nukes.

lol the rest of your rants are nonsense. It's an action movie! You really expect them to go by the 15 minute time countdown in real life? The point was, that there is a time limit, they need to get shit done quick.
And anyways, Iisla SAW the main bad guy standing outside, which is how she found the bomb.
A super spy/soldier figured out how to steer and crash a helicopter??? Wow. So much unbelievable.
A movie starring Tom Cruise being mostly about Tom Cruise's character......wow...crazyyyyyyyy shit.
Jesus Christ, man.

By this movie's logic:

are less important than

And the bad guy is really Dr. Evil



Scott Evil: "Why don't you just kill him?"
Dr. Evil: "I have an even better idea. I'm going to place him in an easily escapable situation involving an overly elaborate and exotic death."

 

[SmilinDesperado]

By this movie's logic:

are less important than

And the bad guy is really Dr. Evil



Scott Evil: "Why don't you just kill him?"
Dr. Evil: "I have an even better idea. I'm going to place him in an easily escapable situation involving an overly elaborate and exotic death."

Enjoy the next Transformers movie
<{cruzshake}>

 

[CrimsonFan]

It was real good. These mission impossibles keep getting better

 

[minute bull]

According to the director, when Justice League producer Charles Roven approached him about the mustache dilemma, McQuarrie tried to help Warner Bros. out the best he could without putting his own movie in jeopardy. He spoke to Mission: Impossible - Fallout producer Jake Myers about the issue and the team calculated that if Cavill were to shave his mustache to play Superman, it would cost their production about $3 million to digitally fill-in the actor's missing facial hair in order to match the rest of the footage already shot.


With that in mind, McQuarrie proposed that Warner Bros. simply pay them the $3 million, and in turn they would allow Cavill to shave his mustache for the Justice League reshoots and then actually shut down production for Mission: Impossible until he grew it back.

But while that seemed like a pretty solid compromise to avoid any laughable CGI in either film, when Paramount heard about the idea they quickly shot it down

 

[JBSchroeds]

I thought this was decent, but definitely short of the review hype. I agree with @Dragonlordxxxxx review on this one, pretty much point-for-point. I think the biggest letdown was Cavil and Cruise didn't get to play off eachother enough. They were great when they did, but there wasn't enough of it. Overall it was about 20 minutes too long and the finale with the helicopter and following showdown dragged ass. I hate the trend of movies getting so long, it isn't necessary. The first MI was 1:50, the last two were about 2:10, and Fallout was all the way up to 2:27. Condensing the finale, which would put the villain reveal closer to the end, would have made for a superior film IMO.

 

[Sigh GunRanger]

I'm moving back to the States in three weeks. I'm hoping to make the move, settle in, and catch it on the big screen before its run is done.

Can I get away with a normal screen for this one or is this an IMAX spectacular?

IMAX. There is an aspect ratio shift as well

 

[Jesus X]

just came back from theater

• cavill delivered the handsome in this film and then some.
• the halo jump was overrated by critics
• this film would have been better if they didn't need to babysit kane it hurt the story
• all the motorcycle stunts where great from cruise,cavill, and Ferguson.
• simon pegg seemed less prominent this film.
• this film was entertaining but casino royale and skyfall were better spy films,spectre still sucked though.
• the french cinematography was also beautiful on a theater screen.

 

[Peteyandjia]

Kinda weak. Gave it a 6.

Better than the last one, but still kind of a letdown. Really dragged in the last third, and no epic set pieces. Airplane jump & bathroom fight were great, but that’s about 5 minutes of a 2hr 38min movie.

Ghost Protocol is still king by a large margin, the only truly great installment in this series imo.

 

[Jesus X]

Good movie. The lightning scene was hilarious.

that was a funny gag with cavill telling cruise that he had lost his oxygen.

 

[Jesus X]

Kinda weak. Gave it a 6.

Better than the last one, but still kind of a letdown. Really dragged in the last third, and no epic set pieces. Airplane jump & bathroom fight were great, but that’s about 5 minutes of a 2hr 38min movie.

Ghost Protocol is still king by a large margin, the only truly great installment in this series imo.

I agree with ghost protocol and the last third of the film was not as good as the beginning I barely made it through that 2.5 hour run time got long at the end.

 

[Peteyandjia]

I agree with ghost protocol and the last third of the film was not as good as the beginning I barely made it through that 2.5 hour run time got long at the end.

There was some pretty good Tom Cruise Running™, and Tom Cruise On A Motorcycle™, but aside from checkmarks like that it was definitely missing something unique & iconic, like the Abu Dhabi building scene from Ghost Protocol, or even the classic wire-suspension heist from the original. Things you immediately picture in your head when you think of them.

 

[Jesus X]

According to the director, when Justice League producer Charles Roven approached him about the mustache dilemma, McQuarrie tried to help Warner Bros. out the best he could without putting his own movie in jeopardy. He spoke to Mission: Impossible - Fallout producer Jake Myers about the issue and the team calculated that if Cavill were to shave his mustache to play Superman, it would cost their production about $3 million to digitally fill-in the actor's missing facial hair in order to match the rest of the footage already shot.


With that in mind, McQuarrie proposed that Warner Bros. simply pay them the $3 million, and in turn they would allow Cavill to shave his mustache for the Justice League reshoots and then actually shut down production for Mission: Impossible until he grew it back.

But while that seemed like a pretty solid compromise to avoid any laughable CGI in either film, when Paramount heard about the idea they quickly shot it down

lol at the ridiculousness of this mustache dilemma and all the high ranking execs involved and the millions of dollars spent.