Saw this film the other day and was just blown away! This is peak popcorn cinema and one of the best films I've seen this year - up there w/ Black Panther and Shoplifters.
McQ's direction of action has been praised over and over, but I really want to applaud him for basically getting all of his prior collaborators sans his editor, basically. His new collaborators, Rob Hardy and Lorn Balfe chiefly among them, give this film an incredible new sheen. I loved Hardy's 90's washed out look. Very fitting that in the Skyfall of Mission Impossible, we get a film that looks like the original. But McQ also managed to top the last few films with such great sequences, so huge props to that.
I'm glad we got more of Solomon Lane and the Syndicate. One of my issues with Rogue Nation is that we hardly got to see the anti-IMF aspect of the Syndicate. It was just Ilsa and Solomon, basically. Having Cavill as Walker as this villainous equal to Ethan was great. McQ felt as if Cavill's talents hadn't been taken advantage of in prior big blockbusters (no doubt shade aimed at WB) and he gives him a lot more material to chew on here. I also appreciate McQ taking advantage of using the one F-bomb allowed for PG-13 films ala the X-Men films. This was a darker film and I appreciated some of the language.
The film is introspective, but also did a good job of not venturing into Craig Era Bond territory. Ethan is a lot more simplistic than Bond and the franchise isn't also as gritty. It's more fun. Had they gone full Craig-era Bond they would've really had to shaft Luther, Ilsa and Bengie.
I prefer Skyfall to Fallout, but both are still great. Skyfall is a very emotionally intimate film, and Fallout did a good job of not trying to emulate that fully.
Also, as an aside, I freaking love the original Bourne trilogy. They're aces, extremely influential and I love Greengrass' shaky-cam action. The only shaky-cam, quick editing I can handle, frankly.
McQ's direction of action has been praised over and over, but I really want to applaud him for basically getting all of his prior collaborators sans his editor, basically. His new collaborators, Rob Hardy and Lorn Balfe chiefly among them, give this film an incredible new sheen. I loved Hardy's 90's washed out look. Very fitting that in the Skyfall of Mission Impossible, we get a film that looks like the original. But McQ also managed to top the last few films with such great sequences, so huge props to that.
I'm glad we got more of Solomon Lane and the Syndicate. One of my issues with Rogue Nation is that we hardly got to see the anti-IMF aspect of the Syndicate. It was just Ilsa and Solomon, basically. Having Cavill as Walker as this villainous equal to Ethan was great. McQ felt as if Cavill's talents hadn't been taken advantage of in prior big blockbusters (no doubt shade aimed at WB) and he gives him a lot more material to chew on here. I also appreciate McQ taking advantage of using the one F-bomb allowed for PG-13 films ala the X-Men films. This was a darker film and I appreciated some of the language.
The film is introspective, but also did a good job of not venturing into Craig Era Bond territory. Ethan is a lot more simplistic than Bond and the franchise isn't also as gritty. It's more fun. Had they gone full Craig-era Bond they would've really had to shaft Luther, Ilsa and Bengie.
I prefer Skyfall to Fallout, but both are still great. Skyfall is a very emotionally intimate film, and Fallout did a good job of not trying to emulate that fully.
Also, as an aside, I freaking love the original Bourne trilogy. They're aces, extremely influential and I love Greengrass' shaky-cam action. The only shaky-cam, quick editing I can handle, frankly.
