Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Is Excellent!
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- čas přidán 12. 07. 2023
- Mission Impossible 7, starring Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwell, absolutely demolishes Indiana Jones 5, and is likely to dominate the summer movie season.
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Two hits in a row for Tom Cruise.
This is what happens when you care about audiences
Exactly. People don't watch movies or sports or entertainment in general for the "message" they watched these things to be entertained. Tom Cruise and the people working on these movies of his get that.
Just 2?
@@robbieclark1784 well, 3 (MI : Fallout)
Name a movie Tom Cruise ever did that sucked? Why is it our music AND our movies declined to nothing over 30 years?
Spot on.
It’s very refreshing to watch a movie where actors are standing in actual locations.
How strange it is that we've entered an era of cinema where this is the kind of thing that we're lauding, but I agree.
And that's extremely depressing for how true it is.
And with actual stunts, props, etc
@cutter14 Like Mauler said: things that make sounds when you knock them other than "flap".
lol! you fool. you total fool. train sequence. for a start......2hrs of key key key..where the key key key ..key this..key that....2 f- hours of THAT!!! IN LITTLE SETS...35 min of action.
Hayley atwell managed to beat the Hollywood trope of the overly competent heroine. She’s good at what she does, and competent enough to pull off a few surprises- but she needs help, and frankly it makes sense that she would. She’s a thief, not a super spy, and you can see how out of depth she feels. And that doesn’t make her less competent or “at the mercy of men.” She just feels like a real character, and shes all the more brilliant for it.
I have never seen anyone teeter the line of badass and terrified so well. I hope I’m not being hyperbolic when I say her performance was worthy of an Oscar nomination; I find true fear to be one of the hardest emotions an actor can convey, and she did it so well without being a damsel. I’m in awe of her.
@@kmbae.3211..And she's stunning. Burns a hole in the screen when the camera is on her. I said that a lot, but I really mean it!
Hit the nail on the head.
Mic drop
I just came out of the movie and was about to type exactly this! She is a great character, she’s not perfect and that makes her more relatable and realistic.
Pom Klementieff was incredible in this movie, I was very surprised how good she is. A genuinely menacing and dangerous female villain.
*SPOILER WARNING* I was happy when she survived in the end. I got pissed when Gabriel just turned on her without hesitation, especially since she was loyal throughout, but she still held her own.
I still don't fully understand what her character's motive was in the end but she was entertaining to watch on screen.
I mean she basically was just the overly strong action girl that felt straight out of an anime, she even wears a schoolgirl skirt so yeah, not that far off. I mean that this 130lb girl was able to fight against Ethan Hunt in a fistfight and almost choke him with her legs is pretty ridiculous.
@@Icetea-2000She had a steel bar and a male companion. Looked pretty realistic to me, especially the part where Ethan still beats both of them.
@@tjarkschweizer Yeah he still beats them which is realistic which is why I didn’t mind that much but he was up against her alone at one point and she had him struggling in a chokehold between her skinny legs, that’s just not believable
If Tom Cruise isn't saving us from an alien invasion, he's saving us from terrible movies made by terrible people 🎉🎉
100% he’s gonna talk it out with them, and then give them copies of mi and the aliens will save us from the bad aliens😂
The Drinker wishes he had said that!
Tom & I are going to be friends for a billion years!
I realised you were talking about edge of tommorow
Took me sometime to understand 😂😂
@@Idiotgamer747 thought he was talking about Oblivion but Edge of Tomorrow is also an entertaining movie, that was the movie I realized just how hot Emily Blunt is 😂
Directors : Let's use CGI
Tom : I am CGI ( Cruise Going Insane)
Lmfao
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This was the first movie I’ve been to in a long time where people in the theatre were actually enjoying it- like actual laughs and screams from audience. It was also the first time in a _long_ while where people clapped afterwards. I think that says a lot about how great this movie is
yeah i heard people in my theater laughing at parts and the girl next to me jumped when the movie went silent as Tim motorcycles off the cliff and then the suddenly loud blowing air. that was pretty cool.
I loved the Entity. He is a perfect villain to end the saga. A villain who returns to analog instruments, the most precious resource. And he puts Ethan at 100% of his abilities.
Normally the AI route gets old, but in this case the stories always relied on the team being able to hack into anything and override the security system. In this case it doesn't work, no human can ever be better than a creature that lives in the code.
Mission impossible is not ending bud
I hated it he was way to overpowered, the way they are supposedly going to defeat him is weird, if it wants to destroy the submarine or get the key it could’ve done it way faster if it has every government under it and can predict the future and the movie could’ve ended so fast but then the movie would’ve ended so the writers either made bullshit excuses or just left plot holes.
The entity doesn't have a gender. It's just an AI
Yeah the evil chatGPT that is allpowerful but still can be controlled with a key to a submarine for some reason lol it also decides to use it's abilitties just here and there not to disturb the heroes too much and the heroes in turn still insist on using every digital thing for every stupid task, especially product placement from asus and bmw lol. Perfect well thought out villain with a real impact on the story to make it fresh right ? not just another evil self conscious AI wanting to control the world
A friend of mine went to see this film when it opened in Toronto. Little did he or the audience know that Cruise was at the screening and when the movie was over and the lights came on he stood up and thanked everyone for coming out to see the movie. No big camera production about it, just him in the theatre thanking the viewing audience.
And that is why his inmense fanbase is loyal: because he knows who pays his bills and has always cared to let them know it.
he was thanking the people at the start of the movie as well it's really nice to see someone care so much for their audience instead of calling them names and dismissing them.
@@pandapo7542 He's famous for staying hours on end at the red carpet signing autographs.
Fans who waited hours on end to see him never forget those things.
@@el_killorcure I can tell from his vibes he gives he's a nice guy but no one will listen to me due to public scandals from 15 years ago...
@@ThotdFan127 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
As a kid growing up in the 80s I never would have guessed that Tom Cruise would be the biggest action star in the world forty years later. But here we are. Keep it going Tom.
Wait till he is in his 70s, still rocking in movies, doing all his stunts in a wheelchair.
For the majority of my life, I was never what you would call a Tom Cruise fan. I didn't hate him or anything, but he was the Hollywood guy, and I just kinda dismissed him. I have to say, he's earned my respect. He's put more effort than necessary in for a very long time now.
I can’t believe jumping on Oprah’s couch didn’t end his career.
@@KelticTimIt jumpstarted it...
@@szeltovivarsydroxan9944 I mean he was doing pretty good beforehand, and he did disappear for a lil bit, but he also put out some bad movies like Vanilla Sky, but then he found his way back to the top real quick. More than the couch I think it was trashing anti depressants that made him go away for a minute.
Amazed that Cruise has been playing this character for 27 years and has the physicality to pull it off. It's like Sean Connery playing Bond until 1989. Fun fact, Connery was two years younger in 1989 than Cruise is now.
"Never Say Never Again" came out in 1983, Sean Connery was 53 years old.
I could agree to everything Drinker say about the movie except for the part of Benji and Luther getting sidelined. What are the "super powers" of Benji and Luther again? Both are good hackers but this time they are dealing with their worse nightmare - AI. Yet once Benji knew they have been played, he was able to improvise as a good IMF agent would. In addition, it is Luther who reminds Ethan the 2 things that he is suppose to remember so as to complete his mission. After their equipment have been compromised, they had to devise a setup so remote that AI cant reach them. This makes it more plausible their performance seem so limited in Part 1. As a as an ex-communications personnel, I am especially hyped to see how they are going to use legacy methods (they already mentioned one of them in this film) to overcome the advanced AI in Part 2.
Let us give props to this movie for having 4 awesome females in 1 movie without any forced bullshit, when rest of the Hollywood hasn't made even one in such a long time... 😆
Edge of Tomorrow from 9 years ago - also a Tom Cruise movie.
And TWO of them are MarvoDisney escapees!
That's because them being females isn't what's important. It's because they are GOOD CHARACTERS!
@@josephtattum6365The asian character wasn't a good character though ... You just said that because there was no woke stuff
Still ticked with how that bridge sequence was handled. Can’t believe that was done.
I never would have believed that a sequel to a film series that started in the mid 90s and based on an old TV show from the 60s starring a leading man who is in his 60s would be one of the worthwhile event films of 2023...but here we are
not to mention that the first few movies were mid and now they are one of the best movies in modern day
@@Hgh38 The first one was pretty good. I saw it at the cinema when it first came out and the dangling on a wire bit was really iconic. Mission Impossible 2 was decent with John Woo stamping his mark all over. Who can hate Triumph Street Triples doing slow-mo endos?
MI 1 was a beast for its time, for sure
He's one of the few remaining people I think that has the original charisma of a 'movie star'
The only one that isn't great is 2. The rest are all 🔥
I liked that before this movie, as with Maverick, Tom addressed the audience in a brief filmed intro and thanked everyone for being there in the theater. Great touch, and it reminds people that we're the reason movie stars stay employed.
I think people also recognize the amount of craftsmanship that Tom brings to the table, and are rewarding him for it.
Just watching Tom Cruise running for two hours is way better than anything from Disney
Two hours and 40 minutes... and it got old.
😂
2 hours and 43 minutes. And it was awesome. And it’s not doing well because the mainstream media doesn’t want to cover it.
Here here brother
Mandalorian says hi.
Love mission impossible & the last samurai though.
Tom Cruise never misses. Seeing him save action cinema pleasing the audience and without woke politics is always a delight. Hope it makes a billion.
Not just action cinema but all of cinema.
@@fatherlucid4995 Exactly!
Hes also a choe-moe
Fallout was trash.
So overrated, very confusing story.
Tom needs to stop making these Mission movies.
It's all about the stunts.
It'll make a billion in 3 weeks or less
I can't believe that Barbenheimer have been more successful this summer at the box office. There's no figuring people??? I have seen MI7 five times and still not bored yet.
You need a life if you're watching MI that many times
Got a life but just using my Limitless movie pass to its maximum pal.
Just saw this today. A guy that starts off the movie with a message with the director thanking the fans for coming out to catch the movie goes to show the dedication and respect this man has to the fans and deserves all the kudos he can get! Great movie, not the best one imo and not my favorite movie in the franchise, but still a damn great movie overall!
Reasons to love this movie:
1. Good story
2. Amazing action scenes
3. Absolute blast to watch with friends
4. Good characters
5. Women aren't beating men twice their size.
6. Tom Cruise
7. Tom Cruise running
The story was average, but it was a very enjoyable action movie with unexpected humor.
8. Tom Cruise
9. Tom Cruise
10. Tom Cruise
@@Razer5542 actually
@@Razer5542
11. Don't forget about Tom Cruise
12. To finalize my point, Tom Cruise
I love how the movie starts off with a Thank You message from Tom Cruise to the fans. Modern Hollywood doesn't deserve him.
Really? He started Top Gun Maverick with a thank you message to all his fans, and now he's doing it again here? Man may be a scientologist, but it seems his love for his fans is genuine. : )
@@kinghyperheart1571 Even if its only marketing, he knows where his money comes from!
We went to our local Vue on Tuesday to see it and there was no TC message at the beginning.
@@jenlovesbooks ah shame, it was a quick 15 second message from him and the director thanking and to enjoy the show
@@Bhavyo He is a genuine nice guy, he was caught once changing a tire for a older person
The very best part of this movie is at the very beginning where he and his producer thank the audience for coming to see this movie in a theater. FANTASTIC! What a class act. Thank you Tom Cruise.
I loved this movie so much. They even managed to make the car chase trope original interesting and even funny. Tom Cruise has still got it he’s the hero we need
She as a bad driver and the Fiat 500 EV were a great addition to a car chase scene in a movie.
Yea, I was like here's the car chase that everyone expects, but it went by nicely and It was refreshing
Personally it was way too long and could be shortened
But it was still a blast and pretty funny
@@unquestionableexistance8704should have been even longer!
I swear the car chase felt like a sequence straight out of fast and furious
Tom Cruise may be a crazy scientologist, but god damn does the man know how to make a movie.
I avoided his movies for a long time because of some of his off-screen nonsense. Then I broke down and saw Edge of Tomorrow. Honestly I prefer his looniness to the woke looniness
imho, presently, scientology is the least crazy ideology in the western countries. (well your children were safe)
Well damn...you pretty much ninja'd my comment!
It certainly helps that his movies aren't about preaching his personal beliefs to the audience.
How is he crazy?
You have no idea how happy it made me to see Grace struggle with precision driving. Instantly made her 10x as likeable.
I was like "FINALLY a female character who isn't perfect at every single thing she does holy shit"
That segment where they are driving circles around that SUV seemed to just drag on. We get it. She can't drive. Move on... Also that desert gun fight was half assed.
@@frankopanklaric that and when they’re trying to start the car, those are the unnecessarily drawn out jokes I remember
@@spook407 I liked the car related jokes. You can't please everyone...
@@frankopanklaric I think the circles were because the car controls were weird, same with starting the car, those buttons were completely different than a normal car.
Thank god Tom Cruise is crazy enough to do this. He might be one of the few people in the industry who still even give a shit. This movie felt like something from another era. A fresh breath of movie purity in a sea of endless cynicism.
it feels good to watch a movie without feeling like the writers and producers are letting you know that they are one step ahead of you, better than you. You can tell that this movie was made with the audience in mind and not their ego. Just pure fun adrenaline with a good cast, a good story and good action that feels real because it is.
It's really quite astounding that at age 60 he's having among the most successful action films of his entire career. Kudos Tom.
That sums up the problem, the new generation have been sucked into a woke void of mediocre films and endless girlbosses.
Cruise is successful because he is making old fashioned style films and for some reason, Hollywood bosses are ignoring that market.
@@johnsmith-px3xj because they dont get watched in cinema, but online for free. so 300 million dollar movie is bound to loose. unless its a spectacle like Tom Cruise films. He makes films for the big screen. whereas film companies make pish now that is filmed in a month and sold online to netflix but it will come back big cinema. its too enjoyable an arf form and too much unique experince opposed to your living room. I think anyway.
@@gingerindian1141 Yeah, Cruise made big films for the big screen, and he went big in order to make it happen. He seemed to learned his lesson from the blunder that was the Mummy, because all his films after that delivered exactly what the audience were looking for and he didn't half-ass them by putting CGI here and there just to hide green screen and called it a day.
@@korawitbuttramee618 100%
@@korawitbuttramee618 I realise I'm in a minority, but I actually enjoyed The Mummy, and was disappointed it didn't get its sequels.
Watched it with my parents today. Right after leaving the theater, my dad said "this was like 20 times better than Indiana Jones." Can't wait for Part 2.
That may even be an understatement. 20 times 0 is still 0, so we might have to say it's infinitely better xD
My dad, having seen Dial 2x and crying at it, came out loving Dead Reckoning and saying, "What a great year. First Indy, now this." At 41, I've seen Indy 3x. My wife wants to see it again. To each their own.
@@kingofswing3000 In that case since you roughly know why we dislike the idea of it, what's the big thing that you enjoy about it?
I agree with your dad. My family & I saw both. MI Dead Reckoning was WAAAAAAY better. Great movie, I highly recommend. Tom Cruise is a badass who makes badass movies.
You just dont like helen is "strong, beautiful , independant woman" (real quote from indiana movie.)
I think the biggest problem with Dead Reckoning is it's poor timing on release. They should have waited until august to release this movie once the Barbenheimer craze died down.
I literally just finished watching this film and loved it.
I stuck a bit of CZcams on afterwards, searching for some commentary on the movie and thought: "Drinker you all knowing perpetually inebriated font of movie knowledge and wisdom, surely you have seen this movie and will have put up a review and - just as the time I got home late from a particularly rough night out only to realise there were no beers in my fridge and low and behold, remembered there was a full bottle of brake fluid in my shed - my prayers were answered.
Hallelujah.
Tom Cruise doesnt make bad movies. And God bless a man who understands that masculinity is not toxic, its just masculinity.
Except the mummy movie…we don’t talk about that one lmao
He's had a couple of sketchy and/or dumb ones
Uhhhhhm....Cocktail????????
@@timo4054 Got me there lol. He makes FEW bad movies i shoulda said ;)
Generally he does make good action flicks. But there have been bad ones. Mission impossible 2 was pretty bad in my opinion. Not saying it was his fault. But yeah.
Say what you want about Tom Cruise but he's one of the last, true movie stars who still brings us great entertainment without "The Message."
I believe he's the very last one.
Hes the " Last Samurai " 👀
Cruise, Keanu, Neeson, Butler and Denzel all have new action movies out this year focused purely on entertaining audiences without any forced messages, it's a great year for action fans that's for sure.
Who could have guessed that scientology, of all things, would prove to be some sort of weird inoculation against wokeism? 🤷♂️
Why wouldn't you like Tom?
Who'd he kill?
This movie made me believe in cinema again. Tom Cruise is bigger than Hollywood. He gets what the business needs.
This movie was excellent. The rare 2.5-hour movie where I didn't feel the length at all. I was ready for it to keep going. Can't wait for Part 2.
One thing I loved about Grace as a character is that she had GENUINE development through the movie. When she first meets Ethan, we get the impression that she’s a femme fatale kind of similar to a character like Black Cat. Intelligent, cunning and not afraid to do anything she can to get what she wants. But as the movie goes on, we see a more vulnerable and emotional side to her which eventually grows into determination and courage (going from stealing the key from Ethan numerous times to agreeing to help him and eventually join the IMF).
Unlike a certain character who “helps” Indiana Jones who’s name I won’t even mention.
Ethan also has a development arc which we'll see come to fruition in part 2, I'm sure of it.
I remember when she said “I can do this all day” then got chopped in half by Wanda 10 seconds later. Truly one of the superheroines of all time.
Grace actually does things instead of simply talks and talks. It really was a more of a show than tell with her.
I just finished this movie an hour ago and watched the shit show called "Dial Of Destiny" just a day before (Thanks to a free voucher). Its definitely night and day, Grace definitely was a believable character and never annoyed me in a way that I wanted her to go away as opposed to the other character. Kathleen Kennedy can eat shit though...
She’s a great sidekick character. The only thing I beg Tom Cruise not to do is making her into another love interest for Ethan. She’s like a Black Widow to Captain America (which is ironic because Black Widow’s chemistry with Steve is way better than those Steve has with Peggy, another of Atwell’s character. Sometimes just being platonic is enough.)
Loved the fact that you didn’t even notice the cast was diverse and inclusive 🤣 Who would have thought a good film could just make it happen without forcing it.
Yeah because they didn't make the entire character's schtick that they are a minority or a woman
He did not notice because the lead is a white man.
No dwarf, tho! Unless you count Tom Cruise himself ;-)
On a serious note, yes you are correct. Didn't think about it when i watched it yesterday, tho.
In the end, people aren't racist or sexist or homophobic, maybe, just maybe they like *good writing*
I dont think its inclusive but that its what i love about tom cruise action movies, he is not a freakin dumbass
If one car chase has your main characters using 3 different cars and a motorcycle, it's probably too long
At that point it's in the realm of Airplane-style comedy
Didn't feel too long TBH. Hard to feel bored when Ethan's being chased by a bloodlust Opera freak trying to ram them deep into Italian catacombs in an armoured military truck, whilst simultaneously trying to mentor a newbie that's on half the world's hit-lists. Only to narrowly escape being rammed by a train towards the end. Made it quite a treat to watch and felt more original and climatic than practically all the other MI chase scenes which mostly played it straight with simple biker-gangs or some police vessels chasing them through some other European streets.
I laughed out loud in the theater when Grace kept going in circles in the little yellow car and couldn’t get going. Great movie.
Hayley Atwell was the best thing about this movie. Hot and seductive, and not once overshadowing Cruise, the clear male lead. No 'don't hold my hand' or 'I'm an independent woman' BS. Instead, 'you drive' and 'promise me you'll be on that train'. So goddamn refreshing.
I love when women act like real women! i hate driving 😂
Compared to her role in Dr Strange 2, I can tell she had way more fun here!
She was easily the worst part 😂
@@casecoded Yeah and not fake it.
And even better people of color was in the back drop and the white male hero was of course the hero. See if u wait long enough y’all dudes get what u want
I remember my grandmother told me, "I don't care what they tell you about movies in school. Mission Impossible is back".
ISWYDT
Captain America: I understood that reference
"I dont care what they tell you at school. Tom Cruise is a black scientologist. "
True story.
@@CATDHD I don't care what they tell you at school; Tom Cruise is a black Vodun Hunoungan from Togo
Saw it yesterday. Wow. It delivers. And Haley Atwell....give this woman more (good ) work!! I like the way they teased us with the bike stunt, but then fit several other outstanding action sequences int to the movie so by the time he does fly off the mountain, it's like "cool". Interesting that the trailers show what appears to be a scene under the ice of someone recovering the keys from the dead submariners...that person wears what looks like a submarine scape/rescue suit. Also, during the desert attack scene, they held prominent shots on a masked figure of small stature on the assault team...was that supposed to be be Paris in an alternate cut?
Tom is pretty much the only one offering a reason to go to the theatre as opposed to watching it at home.
Christopher Nolan
Tom and Keanu are really the ideal action stars for me. Both of them do their jobs with humility
I guess you did not like Dune
@@glacialimpala I did. But I didn’t need to see it in the theatres.
Oppenheimer
I'm surprised that Tom Cruise and Keanu Reeves don't have any spinal issues from carrying the action movie genre on their backs.
Their huge balls provide some type of counter weight to balance things up
I can assure you that these men have spinal issues
@@stevemattero1471 Especially Cruise, given the insane stunts he pulls.
I hate to say this, but spinal issues happen to everyone given time
Can we see a team-up between the two some time in the future?
I love how you included the blink and you'll miss it clip from Red Dwarf. My all time favorite show!
I agree with almost everything in this review, except I don't think the dialogue was too long. I needed those dialogue-heavy bits to recover from the adrenalin-overload, death-defying action sequences. Best film of the decade.
Just for reference, Tom Cruise (61) is older now than Jon Voight (58) was when he portrayed Jim Phelps in the first Mission Impossible movie. It makes all the stunts in this movie all the more impressive.
That comment was Voight on the money.
That's what happens when you go clear. Best get your thetan levels up.
@@jamesrad6317you beautiful bastard. Get out.
@@salazam Lord Xenu approves.
god damn
I was part of the background actors in the Abu Dhabi scene for this movie. It’s awesome!! Happy that I could be a part of such a big successful project, and that there are still good movies made nowadays. Tom Cruise is a professional, and so is Christopher McQ
That's cool, do you live there? Around how many other extras were there?
Hail !!!
The best (and toughest) movie I’ve worked on so far. Tom is a super professional and considerate man and the stunt team were all hand picked for their individual skills and professionalism.
I noticed a few goofs on second viewing (all near the end of the movie).
1) After Grace puts on the White Widow mask, her hands and nails also magically change
2) One of the humungous splashes of the falling train cars is cut noticeably short via an angle change
3) When Benji is waiting for Ethan to land the speedwing, his conspicuously large watch switches to his left wrist when he looks through the binoculars.
Christopher McQuarrie is consistently proving himself to be one of the best writer-directors in Hollywood.
The script was excellent and basically a documentary of what's going on in the real world 👌
Kicking off with The Usual Suspects was a great start to an illustrious career.
Fallout was trash.
So overrated, very confusing story.
Tom needs to stop making these Mission movies.
It's all about the stunts.
@@marko6947 It wasn't. Not even close. You could have simply said you didn't like it.
@@rustTopher33 It's amazing how true to life and timely the enemies felt, especially given when production for this movie started.
Who knew Tom Cruise's ego could become the thing we wanted and needed most in modern Hollywood.
His ego is the reason his movies are so fucking good. I say 'Let him cook'.
Oddly enough, perhaps perhaps it is because he is already devoted to another cult that he immunized from the worst aspects of The Hollywood cult
Great point!
People used to make fun of masculine men until now they're starting to realize how amazing they are to have around.
Honestly, he is someone who may think of himself as a superhero but will actually try his hardest to become one, and I have to respect that.
OK I need to point out something that I am noticing. Positive reviews from the Critiical Drinker are the movies I actually want to watch. Good work bro, you are now my number 1 source of movie reviews. Every other film can pound sand. Hats off to you. With great knowledge comes great responsibility and it is in good hands. Keep up the good work.
Saw this last night and had an absolute blast. Its almost 3 hours long and i didn't notice at all. Was hooked in for the entire, crazy and awesome ride. So refreshing to see a new film come out this year that delivers like this. Bring on Part 2!
We saw it opening night. Even my wife loved Grace’s character. How real and believable she was compared to other “strong female characters”.
I thought all four women were handled perfectly.
Yeah brother , handled nice and proper if yah know what I mean.
My girl loved it, she kept whispering for Ethan to "kiss her!" haha
Plus she's hot
Well, she ends up pulling some pretty improbable secret agent hijinks by the end train sequence, but whatever! If you expect total realism in these films.well..nah!
But it was supremely entertaining. The actress that plays Grace somehow makes it believable to some degree.
First Top Gun, Now this.
Tom Cruise is on a roll.
hilarious typo
He's been on a roll for years, since edge of tomorrow at least
@@NeverSaySandwich1 He's arguably been on a roll since he relaunched his career with Tropic Thunder.
Fallout was before that
On a Mission to save movies
Just watched it today and it just shows how good the movie was that just the pre-title section alone made me feel I got my money's worth already. The intro was so enthralling I didn't even realize the titles hadn't rolled yet until they did and that portion alone was better than many whole movies (looking at you Fast X).
Despite Tom Cruise’s association with Scientology and all the horrible things we hear about that religion, it is hard not to deeply respect Cruise’s utter fearless dedication and professionalism. The man has the drive and energy that ten young men would be happy to share.
I don’t think there is a single movie casting Tom Cruise, with perhaps the exception of movies like Legend, that I haven’t enjoyed. He is a man whose mere involvement in anything raises the bar and almost guarantees quality.
I wonder whether he will be able to transition to less bleeding edge physical roles, or whether he will end in a blaze of glory.
Godspeed, Tom Cruise.
I really liked how Haley Attwells character was a bit out of her depth when it came to action, but she confronted her fears and tried hard to keep up. I really enjoyed her development
I liked how badass she was either her skills but lacked the basic one of driving a car. I found that to be a great balance.
I also really liked her ass.
I really liked how she grew throughout the movie and that there were moments were it was clear she wasn't an IMF-trained agent and Ethan had to actually help her, rather than her being the STRONG FEMALE CHARACTER miraculously having to save the OLD DISGRACED MALE PROTAGONIST all the time.
Plus she's hot
@timwalden7441 I liked her eyes but yea her ass was nice too 😂
This makes me excited to see its not a mary sue who excels and outclasses everyone at everything
It is amazing what is possible when you put the audience first instead of your preferred narratives!
Tom said he would make these movies until he's too old to do them anymore I can't wait for 80 year old tom in mission impossible 20 fighting in a nursing home
I felt very entertained, even with the 2.5 hours. Sad it's not doing better.
Wish part 2 was this year.
I like that as outrageous as the action/stunts are they somehow seem more grounded in reality than what we get from the Fast & Furious franchise.
Because they still follow the laws of physics
@@mustang8206 I was gonna say, yeah, it's because they actually ARE realistic, they're actually DOING it
This is because they are not perfect. Tom riding a motor cycle, timidly corners awkwardly... and so on. This screams authenticity.
It's because Ethan Hunt is portrayed as an impossibly talented and skilled agent through training and experience not a street racer turned super spy.
What, you were too put off by them going into space? /s
I actually loved the scene where Tom randomly blasts through the train window. It was utterly ridiculous but at the same time brilliant. Pure mission impossible.
I loved it too, because it’s not like he came flying in and started throwing fists immediately. He looked super dazed, like a guy who just blasted through the windows of a train haha. It’s hard to take something so crazy and make it feel realistic, but I feel like they did that. He’s on his ass for a while looking like a guy who just got wrecked at center ice because he was looking at the puck instead of what’s in front of him. I think that’s part of what makes Ethan Hunt so likable. He gets his ass kicked from time to time, rather than steamrolling through everything in his way. Can’t wait for Dead Reckoning Part Two!
Yeah I loved it when they didn’t show him actually doing the stunt that they hyped up so much.
And then conveniently blasting into the spot on the train right where he needed to. And not sustaining any injury.
@@thebigpig2364 They definitely did show him doing the stunt(s) that they hyped up? Not sure what you mean by that 🤷♂️
I don’t understand people liking this, it was too deus ex machina. Then immediately after there is another one. It felt exactly like the type of thing drinker and others complain about (rightly) with Indiana Jones
@@tylerjennings8242 That is also why the girlboss characters don't work. The filmmakers have the confidence to let Hunt be overwhelmed on occasions. There are what the f**k moments from him when other characters ask him to do ridiculous things and sometimes he gets his butt kick.
The train scene is a great example, he was dazed and confused after coming though that window. Whereas a girlboss would have immediately got up, kicked the ass of a man three times her size, while making feminist quips about women not having the time to stunned after falling off a mountain.
Watched the movies 4 times already and enjoyed it, it was nice to hear audience wistle , laugh, it's fun movie
I don't know what kind of black magic scientologists do, but holy shit that man never ages!
Ethan Hunt is everything James Bond used to be, failed to continue to be and never ever will be
Thank you, Tom Cruise, for preserving an example of what cool male action hero looks like!
Ethan isn't James and has never been James and will never be James,they are both 2 different fleshed out characters
Yep, if only they continued Bond like this after Casino Royale! Good to see Tom Cruise keep the spy genre going! Great movie overall! So enjoyable!
Ethan doesn't get to shag like Bond used to though.
Agreed but don't worry, James Bond will return one day. They destroy individual movies but they can never destroy the character.
@@samlee6749Yeah but as whom…
I think Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge is the show stealer in this film. He brings to much intensity, gravity and intrigue to every scene he is in. His epilogue towards the end makes for the perfect ending.
Those two guys chasing Ethan the whole way were awesome too
He's perfect when the role calls for an elitist, narcissistic sc-bag. He was the same character on tv's 'Revenge'.
I liked Shea Whigham as Briggs
@@jwsmith53 Great actor. I was happy to see him return. He played a similarly slimy CIA director in Clear and Present Danger. Always liked Henry Czerny.
@@EastonJackson-GMC Loved his role in that. He just leans back and takes a bit of his carrot. "Boom."
Considering how he played the role in the first movie, and that’s it. How amazing that for about 2 3/4 decades he’s plays the role like he’s done this forever.
Absolutely agree with the Drinker. Tom Cruise is a Stakhanovite actor who puts the movie first and it shows. This guy has been delivering since PS1 was a thing (just to paraphrase the Drinker) and can hardly recall any movie that sucked. Aside from the MI series, think about Rain man, The Top Guns, Born on Fourth July, A Few Good Men, Eyes Wide Shut, Minority Report, Oblivion, Vanilla Sky, The Last Samurai, Jack Reacher hell he even blew us away in comedies like Tropic Thunder and I also had fun with Knight and Day.
In another video the Drinker mentioned that nowadays there are no movie stars in Hollywood anymore - so you won’t go watch a movie just because of an actor. I very much agree with it but I believe Cruise is an exception - at least for me. And probably DiCaprio.
Anyhow - hope we will still be getting TC for many years.
One thing that stood out for me is how realistic the female characters were. You touched on how likeable they are and the reason for that was... they have weaknesses they were human. Small details i picked up on... when Grace got into fights... anytime 2 guys were fighting her she always would lose. Even one on ones she usually got off worse. Also i noticed during the train scene how ethan would hold her hand help her up help her avoid things and protect her. She never once slammed him saying 'i can do it myself thank you' or finally when he had to jump to the ledge to save her and she was petrified. It really made her so likeable and grounded. Well done Tom... what a film!
Do you trust me? NO!
I really like how Tom Cruise starts his movies with a personal message thanking the audience. It shows humility and gratitude from a man whose career has been consistently so huge that he doesn't have many reasons to be humble.
Of course, if Hollywood ever caught on to this little detail, you know they'll try to replicate it with none of the sincerity. Imagine Disney jumping on the bandwagon and dragging out Brie Larson to lie to us all about how much she appreciates us coming out to support her passion before airing a movie that insults half the audience, or having Harrison Ford lie to us about how important a certain character is to him before airing a movie that totally trashes him while he phones in a performance in his street clothes.
Didn't you notice that they had Harrison Ford attempt this for the Indiana Jones film, too? It feels genuine when Tom was there with Christopher McQuarrie.
@@MiaogisTeas As he described it in detail, its safe to call that part sarcasm.
You're a real Mensch, Critical. Well done!
This is the one movie that made me go back to the cinemas
We need more directors like Christopher McQuarrie, Chad Stahelski, and Sam Hargrave.
Yessssss please!
It's so awesome that the John Wick director is literally a Chad in real life!
Gareth Evans is another solid choice too, who made The Raid films. His next one is an action flick with Tom Hardy and I'm pumped for it.
@@thebatman4279 glad you mentioned him
Add Christopher Nolan and Gareth Edwards to the list.
Tom Cruise, Keanu Reeves, and Henry Cavill are the most dedicated actors in Hollywood.
I think you're forgetting Christian Bale and tons of others...
These 3 aren't exactly the greatest actors around. They seem to choose easy films.
All white guys? Are you telling me you're racist? 😁
Arnold, Sylvester, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt, Vin Diesel, and the Rock are also note-worthy.
Why Keanu ?
2 hours and 40 minutes? I watched that film and didn't even noticed it was that long! New Mission Impossible is just an excellent movie!
Thank You So Much Drinker Just Love Your Content and Reviews 😊
Let be honest. If tom is in charge you know you are going to get a good movie
The Mummy says otherwise
@@4deleDaz33m No one's perfect. Remember Legend? Didn't think so.
@@decosteruniverseI loved Legend!
@@decosteruniverse Never said that everyone is perfect. Not every Tom Cruise movies is great either
@@szeltovivarsydroxan9944 Glad to see I was proven wrong. I'm curious if the Gen Zers know
Always love to hear The Critical Drinker’s mean-spirited laugh at Disney’s expense
I watched the movie yesterday in the cinema. Absolutely fantastic. One of the best movie experiences I have had in a long time.
I'm so down. This Friday, I have to see this on the big screen. Thanks as always for your work Drinker.
I still remember the first mission impossible. Man the 90s were so awesome. That sneaking in scene where he comes down from the ceiling is still a gold standard.
A ripoff of Topkapi, but still awesome.
As a 90 kid, I want to go back :(
I know everyone likes to dog on MI2 but that one really set the standard for me, loved it
I had forgotten that the first movie came out in the 90's. It really makes me feel old.
@jase276 for me it was 3. 1 was good for what it was at the time. It had more of the TV show feel. 2 had action, but the motorcycle jousting was too weird for me to believe. 3 was fantastic and they have gotten better since then.
Finally saw it today. The scenes with Cruise and Atwell are THE reason to see this movie. Both are incredible.
Movie sucked. Like half of the movie would have been gone if they used guns. Cause the fights were terrible.
@@liphrium9858I've searched up and down the comments but I still can't seem to find out who asked for your L take.
@@liphrium9858 lol like if the heroes had used guns? That's an interesting take, maybe it would. But this one seemed to be deliberately trying to be family friendly, so maybe it was intentional.
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Seems we've got a Dial of Dysentery fan on our hands... 😂
@@liphrium9858 and maybe if some of them take down the creator of the AI this movie would it be even shorter
It has been great to see this franchise stay true to its original source material (the TV show) yet continue to tell new stories with each film. Interweaving past characters and storylines, exotic locations, great acting. This is EXACTLY what Secrret Invasion should have been if Disney Marvel had actually cared about it.
Also, you can tell that movies like M:I and Top Gun are such a passion project for Tom Cruise. He loves these films so much that he cannot stand to give the audience a mediocre product. In the words of Stevie Wonder,
I wish those days would come back once more!
Why did those days ever have to go?
I love them so!"
3:41 The fact that Drinker knows Red Dwarf just made me appreciate him even more!
Nearly 3 hours of intrigue, action, suspense, and humor, carried along by a compelling story and great actors. We would have sat through another 3 hours and loved every minute of it.
And thankfully we’re going to sit through another three hours same time next year!
Gotta say. After all the Saltines we've gotten over the years, this upgrade to a Ritz tastes pretty good.
It was good - but my bladder needed a pause.
@@WestCoastAce27 try to go to the theatre's toilet before watching a movie even though you already going to a toilet before arriving to the theatre
Tom Cruise sets out to actually entertain the audience instead of annoy, frustrate or insult them.
A strange concept for Hollyweird today and they wonder why his movies sell seats!
Saw this last night and loved it. Agreed about the dialogue being clunky at times--there were points where it felt like some characters were making carefully pre-rehearsed speeches rather than actually, you know, talking like real human beings. These quibbles were fairly minor, though. Tom Cruise delivers once again.
its very good, one of the best in MI franchise. very surprising that it is struggling at the box office. even collecting lower than barbie. hopefully it will breakeven cause i want to see dead reckoning part 2
I can't wait to go see this in theaters. Tom Cruise (like him or not) makes very entertaining films and not woke garbage.
He's a bit of a looney in his personal life, but at least the man knows what his job is - to entertain - and by god he does it.
Why wouldn't you like Tom?
Who'd he kill?
@@danjonmills Does he have to kill someone to be unlikable?
He's a Scientology loon. Says all kinds of crazy shit and rants about mental health professionals...which Scientologists despise, for reasons that ought to be obvious.
@@danjonmills He killed my elderly neighbour. But it's okay cos the guy was a dick.
He's mad as a hatter in personal life and a somewhat mediocre actor. But you know what? He makes really entertaining movies. MI7 was very enjoyable, despite its flaws that Drinker has mostly covered. Will probably go to see it again.
Tom Cruise is a rare talent. Someone who commits fully in his role without question. He and the production here understands what people want to see and most importantly what people Don’t want to see.
Except the fact "who has the genuine half of the key or not" plot confuses many audiences, this movie has everything to grab everyone's attention for the entirety of the film.
I enjoyed this movie, but I also see why this wasn't the blockbuster they thought it would be. It looked like it was very much affected by COVID in the way it was filmed. I think they did the best they could, but you can still tell it has a very different style in filming vs. previous films. It also felt like it needed more polish. Overall pretty good though.
What’s great is that there were plenty of strong and capable female characters in this movie but they were all actually likable and enjoyable to watch.
Also the tension in this movie was just top tier. The music was insane and every scene with Gabriel had me on the edge of my seat
I was thinking the same thing. They give off the vibes that they are just as deadly/capable as their male counterparts, but they know they have to do it in a different way. Speed and agility are just as deadly as brute strength in the right hands.
The music. Lalo Schifrin has been pleasing audiences for over half a century.
Because they were like John Wick: believable in the sense that unless they can put the guy down quick, they will lose, and they all did whenever the guy, being Cruise or guards or Gabriel, took/dodged the hits and hit back.
@@hasslfootbro that entire scene was just "women cant drive" personified LMAO
I definitely felt this in Fallout with soundtrack and I absolutely loved them doubling down on that epic tension in this one. The meeting in the club gave me chills! I'm also looking forward to seeing more of Gabriel and getting more of an insight on whatever job went wrong that led to him executing that girl in Ethan's past, I found him to be quite an enjoyable antagonist, illusive, menacing and ruthless.
What Tom Cruise is doing at his age is very impressive and I'm glad we still have him, because we somehow still don't have anyone to replace him after all these years.
This was the first mission impossible I ever watched and I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. Favorite movie I watched this year
3:20 With that point, I honestly suspect that it might have been the entity which placed the keys into circulation. Given that it’s been established the entity can act in strange and unpredictable ways as part of a wider scheme. I genuinely think that part of the entity plans involves the keys being found. We’ll have to wait for the next movie, but I suspect that will be a reveal.
I really love how every action scene put the main protagonists in real danger and struggle every time
Diabolical!
Pre woke Hollywood : we went to the cinema every week as a family.
Now : the only two movies we’ve gone to the cinema to see - Top Gun Maverick & MI
Thanks Tom ❤
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Same here! I will be watching Oppenheimer though.
Same bros. Top Gun and MI were last movies worthy of theater experience, Oppenheimer probably will be third
Don't forget Sound of Freedom.
John Wick 4 was pretty darn good in theatres too. Its worth a watch,.
Wait... what about John Wick and Across the Spider-verse?