Posted on 08/02/2015 7:27:01 AM PDT by Perdogg
I know that there are a lot of Tom Cruise haters and yes, he is beginning to really show his age, however, if you can put these issues a side I think you would really enjoy this film.
The plot involves a group called "the Syndicate" led by a mysterious man named Solomon Lane and a subplot emerges involving the CIA whose director, played by Alec Baldwin, is trying to shut down the IMF. The cast includes Ving Rhames, Jeremey Renner,Simon Pegg, Sean Harris, and the very beautiful Rebecca Ferguson, Jingchu Zhang and Hermione Corfield.
There are the typical car and motorcycle chases, explosions, and the eventual attraction between Cruise and Ferguson. There is really very little new in this movie, but the scaled back story of this movie actually makes it work. The music from Joe Kraemer is good, though I am not sure why Michael Giacchino was not asked back. There are some creative firearms in this movie that would make "The Day of Jackal" proud.
This is definitely better than the last MI. I would recommend seeing this movie. I guess the summer release was to avoid the "Star Wars" movie.
I liked Ghost Protocol, it was pretty good.
I trust you. Maybe I’ll watch on cable then.
Tom Cruise in a movie is like a week old dead fish in a Ferrari. It spoils the ride.
I saw MI only once, I remember being confused, I was just a lad of 12 or 13. Never saw the sequels.
The first one’s worth a rewatch.
The rest? I quit after 2. ‘Nough said.
I loved Jack Reacher, but because of the plot, and in spite of Cruise. I also liked that movie where he was in a cab and went around being a assassin.
He is definitely a scum bucket, but he does get some awfully good roles and does a respectable job in them.
I can’t stand Alex Baldwin either, but he was really, really good in “The Departed.”
I honestly don’t go looking to watch movies he’s in. There was something with him and Streep on yesterday, but I hate her worse than him. Ugh....
My son and I saw it last night too, trying to beat the heat.
We thought it was good, the motorcycle chase was pretty intense.
OMG - good call!!! Yes!!!
The Jawas...I think my Tourette’s speak is based on their “language”.
Michael Bay has a movie coming out in January 2016 about Benghazi; that means it will hit red box and cable by the Summer of 2016.
Has Tom Cruise reached that point in Hollywood stardom where his female romantic leads are officially young enough to be his daughters? Michael Douglas and Harrison Ford hit that mark a decade or so ago.
a good flick ... entertaining ... saw it on Imax ...
“I also liked that movie where he was in a cab and went around being a assassin.”
That movie is titled, “Collateral.” For a Tom Cruise movie (that also stars Jamie Foxx) it is a surprisingly good movie.
Here’s the trailer for anyone interested in watching it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LyAp5jL6ok
Collateral (1/9) Movie CLIP - Nobody Notices (2004) HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_syPeFclyN8
She is 31 and he is 53 so I say that the answer is a yes. She is very pretty right up there with Eva Green.
The best thing about “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” is that we now have final confirmation that Academy Award-winner Mel Gibson has been blackballed by Hollywood, not for the vile statements he made about Jews, but for producing “The Passion of the Christ.” Confirmation comes from Alec Baldwin’s addition to the “Mission: Impossible” franchise, this despite the equally vile (and more frequent) statements the Oscar-less actor has made about gays.The second best thing about “M:I5″ is star and producer Tom Cruise, who at 53 still has the physique of a welterweight champ, the drive of an actor desperate to prove himself, and movie star chops like few others. This latest chapter in the ongoing adventures of Ethan Hunt and his Impossible Mission Force (IMF) isn’t as deliriously action-packed as the last two, but the melodramatic emotional missteps of chapter two are recycled, only this time to great effect.
After two decades of standing helplessly and jealously by as IMF successfully saved the world, CIA director Alan Hunley (homophobe Alec Baldwin) has had enough. Before a closed Senate Committee, Hunley (homophobe Alec Baldwin) exploits IMF’s extra-legal methods (burgling the CIA) and missteps (blowing up the Kremlin) to get the division shut down. The timing, however, could not be worse.
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