Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning (Part One)

I saw this in a near-empty cinema with perhaps 15 other people at most. Not great, not terrible. Pretty cringey at times. Fight scenes were very ordinary. Visuals and cinematography were superb as expected, but in all other respects it felt like a paint by numbers Hollywood conveyer belt product with the usual clunky dialogue.
 
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Sankari said:
I saw this in a near-empty cinema with perhaps 15 other people at most. Not great, not terrible. Pretty cringey at times. Fight scenes were very ordinary. Visuals and cinematography were superb as expected, but in all other respects it felt like a paint by numbers Hollywood conveyer belt product with the usual clunky dialogue.
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Sadly, I have to agree.

Great cast (although Ving Rhames was phoning it in) but the story was pretty meh and I have a pet hate of movies that spell out the plot to the audience in unnecessarily slow exposition scenes - film could've easily been 30 minutes shorter and much tighter for it. Also, whilst the practical stunts were great, the CGI was *really* bad (that scene they ripped off from Uncharted 2 had some terrible compositing).

Hayley Atwell is a national treasure though - more of her please! (Pom and Florence were great in this too).
 
Ayahuasca said:
It seems so common these days. I've seen a guy offer someone outside for a fight after a viewing because he politely asked his mother to put her phone away twice. She was sitting in one of the lower rows with her iPhone screen on what appeared to be max brightness. She'd also given him a pretty snappy retort the first time, clearly just a terribly entitled family all round.
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Sankari said:
I'm so glad I'm not the only person who feels this way. It was very jarring, especially for a big budget Cruise movie.

On the subject of Cruise, he definitely looks a lot older and slower now, although thanks to whatever dark rituals he performs in his private mansion, he's somehow looking younger than Pegg.
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Simon Pegg looks haggard for his age, though I think he has had battled alcoholism which won’t have done him a lot of good (the alcoholism, not the overcoming of it).
 
Well I finally saw this last night and thought it was generally excellent. The Train section onwards in particular was brilliant, so tense. One of my criticisms is I think that there were a few scenes where it felt like the characters just stood around and did an exposition dump, didn't feel as blended into the rest of the film as some of the other MI films. Atwell was great (the car chase was brilliant) and I thougth th overall story was good, didn't stray into ridiculousness as an AI enemy might have done. Klementieff's character could have done with more development, she was basically just a silent, slightly unhinged character who barely said anything.
I assume she's still alive so maybe she'll get more time in the second part

I thought the CGI was fine personally, but given the last film I'd watched before it was The Flash then maybe anything looked great next to the CGI in that.

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Watched it in 4DX this morning and apart from that being too aggressive at times with throwing you about so it was hard to keep up with the action, really enjoyed this pacing felt good and it has plenty of moments to ground it without being none stop action.

Hayley Atwell dropped straight into the cast and played off them all really good.

As much as I enjoy seeing Tom Cruise's latest stunt I think they went too hard on the marketing showing off most of the big stunts for marketing. Hopefully with part 2 they keep most of them as a surprise.
 
Glanza said:
Watched it in 4DX this morning and apart from that being too aggressive at times with throwing you about so it was hard to keep up with the action, really enjoyed this pacing felt good and it has plenty of moments to ground it without being none stop action.

Hayley Atwell dropped straight into the cast and played off them all really good.

As much as I enjoy seeing Tom Cruise's latest stunt I think they went too hard on the marketing showing off most of the big stunts for marketing. Hopefully with part 2 they keep most of them as a surprise.
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Who told you to watch the trailer just give them the money for part 2 without watching any :cool:
 
I enjoyed it, but how he managed to navigate the streets of Venice after being his first time their is beyond me :)

Really enjoyed it apart from the usual over the top pathetic fight scenes every movie now throws in. Damm you Jason Bourne for breaking Hollywood fight scenes.
 
I'm sure Oppenheimer stealing all the IMAX screens had a big impact on MI7. The average ticket price is like 2-3 times more and I read somewhere most IMAX in USA will now show Oppenheimer for 5 more weeks.

Tom can't save the box office 2 years in a row :) It's Barbie's turn!


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Was at it last Thursday, was surprised how busy it was considering, but even before Barbieheimer it was doing poorly, opening weekend was fairly average, considering the success of the previous film and Top Gun 2.
 
Its dropped out of over 1000 US cinemas this week for them to max out Barbenheimer sales which definitely won't have helped but the international box office is OK so far with a $445m combined box office over 3 weeks.
 
2hr 45min film went by like it was an hour. Pom Klementieff (Mantis from guardians of the galaxy) does a cracking job at playing an evil psycho.

Action was on point as usual for these films, car chase around Rome was crazy like watching a Fast and Furious film.

If you like the MI franchise then you will enjoy this one for sure. Hope we dont have to wait too long for part 2.
 
Shamikebab said:
Insane that a critically well reviewed, successful established series with a huge name still can't make a profit.
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I’m sure the ‘Little Mermaid’-squad will be in here shortly to scoff at such an underwhelming performance :p :o

But seriously, it’s overshadowed by Barbenheimer and also blighted from being a two partner. I think people are just sick of everything having to be split across multiple films - a personal bugbear of mine, I concede!
 
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