Tom Cruise’s special agent Ethan Hunt is back for another seemingly impossible mission—that of course turns out to be impossibly possible, in no small part to his loyal IMF crew (including Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames) who have no shortness of Scooby-Doo tricks in their metal-clasped bullet-proof cases. There are big chunks of plutonium that …
Here I was, looking forward to a Tom Cruise movie! After his highly enjoyable sci-fi flick Edge of Tomorrow, and the equally impressive Mission: Impossible IV (aka Ghost Protocol), I actually wasn’t ashamed to admit that I was pretty excited to see Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. Alas… well… (shrug) Rogue Nation starts out well, …
The mission of this film lies in the impossible stunts and effects, not in Ethan Hunt’s (Cruise’s) assignment to save humanity from a killer virus. Indeed, you’d have thought that only anime could provide such an aesthetic of violence by slow-motion defiance of physical laws and human anatomy. But thanks to 1999’s The Matrix and …
So, now that you know the “plot”, here are my comments: I’d like to thank director J.J. Abrams. Not for this movie. Not for Lost or Alias. But for one of the greatest shows ever, Felicity. Thank you. Thank you for that excellent TV show. Now, along those lines… J.J, or can I call you …
The Mission Impossible movies starring Tom Cruise blur together for me. I remember something about a hot orange car, Felicity’s eye shattering like glass, some well-known star dying too soon in an elevator shaft. I can’t tell you if these scenes were from 1, 2, or the cleverly titled M:I:3. My expectations were pretty much …