Action-Adventure Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning/The Final Reckoning

[TheVileOne]

Dead Reckoning has the weakest pacing of all his Mission: Impossible films.

 

[Ninjablade]

Tickets on sale Monday.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Mysteryman]

Dead Reckoning has the weakest pacing of all his Mission: Impossible films.

It didn’t help that the movie was essentially, all about setting up,
Part 2.
At least, this time, the story will, CONCLUDE!

 

[Mysteryman]

Why can't M:I be peak cinema like this:

Be Careful What You Wish For.

 

[Mysteryman]

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The one image of Cruise and, of course, he is Hanging in the air!

 

[Ninjablade]

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@flickchick85 be like:

 

[Deck Rickard]

Pom looks so badass on the poster.

It’s weird to me that this franchise hasn’t hit a billion yet with any of its movies. Like, I know that’s not an easy feat for any movie to accomplish. But given that Top Gun Maverick pulled that off despite being a sequel to a kind of forgotten movie, while MI is a much more recognizable brand that has stayed relevant for decades, it’s weird that it hasn’t hit that upper echelon. To be clear, I loved Maverick but I think at least some of these movies are better.

 

[Mysteryman]

@flickchick85 be like:
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I hope so.

 

[Drizzle]

Pom looks so badass on the poster.

It’s weird to me that this franchise hasn’t hit a billion yet with any of its movies. Like, I know that’s not an easy feat for any movie to accomplish. But given that Top Gun Maverick pulled that off despite being a sequel to a kind of forgotten movie, while MI is a much more recognizable brand that has stayed relevant for decades, it’s weird that it hasn’t hit that upper echelon. To be clear, I loved Maverick but I think at least some of these movies are better.

I think that's just a matter of Maverick being a more accessible popcorn blockbuster to general audiences.

 

[Deck Rickard]

I think that's just a matter of Maverick being a more accessible popcorn blockbuster to general audiences.

I guess so? I don’t know though I feel like MI is pretty accessible too. They’re just spy action thrillers, which have been a staple of blockbuster cinema since James Bond started out.

 

[DarkKnight88]

They’ve got pretty complicated plots which will just turn off a certain section of your audience. Top Gun is very easy to follow and high emotions any audience worldwide can kind of get behind.

Box office wise, Mission Impossible II was kind of the apex, at least in North America.

 

[Drizzle]

I guess so? I don’t know though I feel like MI is pretty accessible too. They’re just spy action thrillers, which have been a staple of blockbuster cinema since James Bond started out.

What I should have said was Maverick appealed to a wider demographic. Like, I could see a 10 year old kid getting a lot more enjoyment out of watching Maverick for its aerial sequences and easy to follow plot than something like Dead Reckoning.

Speaking from my own experience, I liked the first M:I well enough when I first watched it at around that age since I was also discovering Bond around that time. But I saw M:I 2 in theaters when I was 11 and was so bored that as a result I ignored the franchise for over 20 years. Of course it only got better after that and 2 is generally regarded as the only real miss in the franchise.

They’ve got pretty complicated plots which will just turn off a certain section of your audience. Top Gun is very easy to follow and high emotions any audience worldwide can kind of get behind.

Box office wise, Mission Impossible II was kind of the apex, at least in North America.

Pretty much. I think the M:I movies are great but none of them hit in the feels nearly as hard as Maverick.

And while Fallout will likely remain the highest grossing entry in the series, I will say that the franchise did seem like it was at its peak popularity around the time of M:I 2. That was when you'd constantly see references to the CIA hanging from the ceiling scene and the theme music all over the place.

 

[TheVileOne]

Yeah something like Maverick easily has more widespread appeal compared to Mission: Impossible.

 

[DyeLorean]

There's a loooot of people that are oblivious to the quality of the M:I films, at least since Ghost Protocol. I speak from experience, every time I bring up the M:I films people tend to compare it to Fast & Furious or something like that.

 

[Deck Rickard]

What I should have said was Maverick appealed to a wider demographic. Like, I could see a 10 year old kid getting a lot more enjoyment out of watching Maverick for its aerial sequences and easy to follow plot than something like Dead Reckoning.

Speaking from my own experience, I liked the first M:I well enough when I first watched it at around that age since I was also discovering Bond around that time. But I saw M:I 2 in theaters when I was 11 and was so bored that as a result I ignored the franchise for over 20 years. Of course it only got better after that and 2 is generally regarded as the only real miss in the franchise.


Pretty much. I think the M:I movies are great but none of them hit in the feels nearly as hard as Maverick.

And while Fallout will likely remain the highest grossing entry in the series, I will say that the franchise did seem like it was at its peak popularity around the time of M:I 2. That was when you'd constantly see references to the CIA hanging from the ceiling scene and the theme music all over the place.

Haha yeah MI2 really sucked but weirdly it made a ton of money (it was the biggest movie in the world that year). Maybe in the aftermath it soured some people on the franchise and kept it from becoming a juggernaut the way some others have. There was just so much bad in that movie:

Face-pulls every 15 minutes

Dougray Scott

Ethan acting like he was more concerned with looking cool than actually completing the mission

Doves, which are to John Woo what feet are to Tarantino

That dumb, weird, “flirt while almost getting yourselves killed” car chase at the beginning

A script that was reportedly only 45 pages long

Cartwheel kicks! So many cartwheel kicks!

LimpBizkit (I KNOW WHY YOU WANNA HATE MEEEEEE!!!!!!)

 

[Drizzle]

Haha yeah MI2 really sucked but weirdly it made a ton of money (it was the biggest movie in the world that year). Maybe in the aftermath it soured some people on the franchise and kept it from becoming a juggernaut the way some others have. There was just so much bad in that movie:

Face-pulls every 15 minutes

Dougray Scott

Ethan acting like he was more concerned with looking cool than actually completing the mission

Doves, which are to John Woo what feet are to Tarantino

That dumb, weird, “flirt while almost getting yourselves killed” car chase at the beginning

A script that was reportedly only 45 pages long

Cartwheel kicks! So many cartwheel kicks!

LimpBizkit (I KNOW WHY YOU WANNA HATE MEEEEEE!!!!!!)

God, that Limp Bizkit song was EVERYWHERE that summer. That said, as an almost 12 year old at the time I still preferred it to the actual movie.

But when I rewatched M:I 2 a few years back, I didn't hate it as much as I thought I would. It's still objectively the worst in the franchise but if you compare it to a lot of the crap that passes for action movies in this day and age it might as well be Fallout.

 

[DyeLorean]

M:I-2 is definitely a product of its time and it shows, but it's also extremely entertaining in its own way. It's very different from the rest of the franchise, and that also could be a positive if you are willing to look at it from a different perspective. As much as I love what McQ has done, I miss those distinctive styles each director gave to the films.

 

[The Shape]

M:I-2 is definitely a product of its time and it shows, but it's also extremely entertaining in its own way. It's very different from the rest of the franchise, and that also could be a positive if you are willing to look at it from a different perspective. As much as I love what McQ has done, I miss those distinctive styles each director gave to the films.

Exactly. M:I 2 is awesome. I love how different it is to every other entry in the franchise. Certainly a product of its time, but that’s a plus for me now.

It was an absolutely huge movie upon release. I remember the hype.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

 

[Drizzle]

Cruise is visibly annoyed in that shot because they didn't let him use a real dove.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I unabashedly love M:I2. You don't hire John Woo to not do John Woo. And he certainly did John Woo.

 

[emielaen]

That Cruise poster is hysterical.

 

[Ninjablade]

M:I-II is by far and away the worst of the series. It also has so many moments that rule.

 

[DarkKnight88]

It’s the only film in the series that hasn’t been referenced at all in any of the sequels.

Come on McQuarrie, throw us a Thandiwe cameo or even just an Anthony Hopkins voice cameo lol.