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Is that like, "Red State"?
There’s nothing Alec Baldwin is in that I’d want to see.
Also, it’s “Rogue Nation.”
Sorry.
No Cruise.
All the time.
Just watching the clown sucks IQ...even more than watching Dorkbama.
We saw it last night. A decent thriller in that it kept your attention throughout and not a bad way to spend a Saturday evening. We saw “Mr. Holmes” last week and I thought it was the better movie. But this one was pretty good as well.
Had a couple friends who went to see it and they LOVED it ... much to their surprise. Think I’ll check it out.
MI was great; really entertaining. Jon Voight played a large part in that, IMO.
MI:2 was a crapfest; I’ve never watched another MI movie since. I remember seeing MI:2 at the movies and I kept thinking: “When does this end?”.
I’ll watch Yossarian again for the 58th time before this.
Tom Cruise in a movie is like a week old dead fish in a Ferrari. It spoils the ride.
a good flick ... entertaining ... saw it on Imax ...
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.
Starts off well: the assignment message is a nice trick.
Hope Pegg has a good part, his character (he only has one LOL!) appeals to me.
Lots of fun. That motorcycle chase made me a bit queasy, though, lol.
Has it been reviewed by AARP?
Heh heh, I thought you meant the British intel agency when I saw MI5!
It wasn’t until I googled the movie that I realized you were talking of Mission Impossible!
Ed
Enjoyed the whole movie.
Not a big fan of extended action and fight scenes but there was enough wit and intelligence to satisfy me.
I thought it was the best action/spy movie in the last 10 years, since Casino Royale. Definitely better than all the previous Mission: Impossibles. It had a really retro style to it without a lot of crazy camera angles, fast editing, extreme violence or characters acting all cool and stone-faced. Cruise and the others poked fun at themselves, much like the Indiana Jones series did. The use of exotic locations and focus on drawn-out sequences of suspense was reminiscent of Hitchcock classics like North by Northwest. The stunts are also apparently done for real in most cases by the real actors themselves, most notably Cruise hanging off the side of the airplane at the beginning. This was done in the classic Bond tradition of cooking up great stunt sequences and writing a movie around them, but the writing didn’t take any shortcuts.
It was written for an adult, intelligence audience. They gave you all the information you needed to understand the plot but they didn’t repeat it fifty times for dumbed-down members of the audience. They went through the key details there pretty quick so you get rewarded for paying attention. The characters themselves are written as extremely intelligent, so it becomes difficult to predict how they are going to double-cross and outsmart each other, making it very interesting to watch. It never feels like the movie’s cheating or taking shortcuts. Everything that happens stays true to its own logic and they’re careful to cover up potential plot holes with lines of dialogue that explain why things have to happen the way they do. The story is smart enough to make the most key action scenes more complex than simply ending when one character out-shoots and out-punches the other one.
The actors did an exceptionally good job. Even Alec Baldwin works in the movie because he plays a basically unlikable character who is stubbornly difficult to reason with. Cruise is intense where appropriate and gets in the kind of lighthearted comedic moments like Harrison Ford used to do in Indiana Jones. Simon Pegg is effective as the everyman sidekick character who provides comic relief without being over-the-top about it. The villain gives an understated, quieter, colder performance without any distracting flamboyance. And Rebecca Ferguson is a luminous discovery, a classical European beauty with a confident intensity in her eyes that makes her believable as a super-spy.
Every Mission: Impossible sequel has changed directors from the previous one and also cast a different female lead. The studio appears to recognize what they had with this one and are breaking that tradition by bringing back both the same director and female lead for the next movie in the series.
Truth be told, Rebecca Ferguson was the real reason I watched the White Queen. :)