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Mission Impossible 7: Dead Reckoning Part 1 is one of the best movies of 2023... but also one of the most frustrating and even disappointing. Or maybe just for me. I dunno. I've heard a lot of people loving it and saying it's the best Mission Impossible yet, even better than Fallout. And maybe they're right. I just don't accept that. And so today let's go over some bigger flaws in Dead Reckoning which I didn't like and why... to see why Fallout easily clears it.
Mission Impossible 7: Dead Reckoning Part 1 sends Tom Cruise against his worst enemy yet: ChatGPT. And as you may have expected from Fallout, the movie is pretty damn good. One of the best action movies you'll see this year, and even though it flopped at the box office a bit, that was mostly due to Barbenheimer. And since Dead Reckoning is great for a lot of the same reasons I've covered before, today let's focus on its ability to seemingly cheat time itself. The movie simply begins and then suddenly ends, without ever letting you go. So in today's Film Perfection, let's see how you can do it too.
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Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
In Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission - not even the lives of those he cares about most. Watch the Final Trailer and see why #MissionImpossible - Dead Reckoning Part One starring Tom Cruise is 98% CERTIFIED FRESH.
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Mission Impossible Fallout (2018)
After a dangerous assignment involving the recovery of stolen plutonium goes wrong, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) elects to keep his team out of harm's way rather than complete their mission, which results in a team of expertly trained operatives taking possession of nuclear weapons. Consequently, Ethan and his dead reckoning train scene uncharted everything wrong with dead reckoning part 2 honest trailer mission impossible dead reckoning watch full movie online free 4k clips ending explained official trailer dead reckoning writing lessons videos tom cruise videos tom cruise rant dead reckoning only action car chase scene hayley atwell hailey mission impossible 8 what will happen IMF team ilsa death grace vs ilsa mission impossible 7 trailer ilsa and ethan grace bad annoying (Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson) must join forces with CIA assassin August Walker (Henry Cavill) in order to prevent a catastrophic nuclear fallout. Produced, written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Also starring Alec Baldwin, Angela Bassett, and Michelle Monaghan. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
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Can You Please Do The Bourne Identity Film Perfection
Filmento, can you please make The Last Of Us 2 video please?
Just out of curiosity, Filmento, which is your least favorite Mission Impossible movie? For me it's easily Mission: Impossible 2!
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I was mainly pissed off about the fact that they decided to get rid of Ilsa in favor of Grace. That in my opinion seems very out of pocket and in very unsatisfying.
Ilsa is such a great character and awesome part of the team. I makes not sense to get rid of her for the annoying Grace. Maybe she wanted out or something. I cant think of a better action female character in the movies right now.
@@muhammadabdusamadMaybe it’s because Rebecca Ferguson was in the middle of the Dune franchise, and so she couldn’t properly take the reins.
She’s 100% still alive!.
@@krnc17I think she is too
Have some hope & faith that Ilsa is alive. Part 2 hasn't been released yet.
I loved the movie but fallout was a masterpiece.
Agree fallout Was the peak of the series and it's in my opinion the second best movie of the series this movie right here. It wasn't bad in terms of quality but it's a movie in terms of plot and pacing an action pieces that we've seen a million times over. I think fans are sick and tired of seeing the same things over and over
I prefer Rogue Nation.
Agree, I was sort of hoping this movie would be better because of the higher budget, but for me ended up being the second worst after MI2
I'd say I *liked* the movie a lot. Even with the unusually silly plot, extremely annoying characters and other nonsense.
Made all the more frustrating because Fallout was indeed a masterpiece.
Villains (evil) is best when they are unaware of how evil they are. Add a dash of madness, with a dash of sorrow (not necessarily for the wrong they have done, but because they don’t know why they do it either)…and that makes a terrifying villain. That’s why Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Boris Karloff…work.
Honestly, I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt this way with Grace. I mean I understand that Ethan values human lives but MY GOSH with the amount of times Grace betrayed him I think he should have just ditched her cuz I was SO ANNOYED
You know it's record asian Box office I know poor asian movie Market but respect bollywood movies copy Tom cruise
Yup, she was highly annoying for me and took me out of the film quite a few times cause she kept betraying Ethan and he kept chasing after her. At his age and experience he seemed like a sprung teenager.
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It was such a bizarre "Sophie's Choice" that Gabriel presented Ethan with. "Either you let the person die who the audience loves and who we've written to be your soulmate. Or you let this random stranger die who has betrayed you multiple times."
The Sophie's choice also made absolutely zero narrative sense. Like, this computer program needs a "sacrifice?" What, why? More like McQuarrie needed to justify to the audience he was about to kill off Ilsa, so he made the A.I. arbitrarily want one of them dead.
I totally agree. After Grace ditch Tom, in that subway, tunnel handcuffed to the steering wheel to let him die, that was just unforgivable. She should’ve died instead of Lisa.
Grace is an awful human being and watching Ethan try to save her over and over again was beyond infuriating:(
indeed I walked out of the cinema because of her. She's as lovely as an acne on the butthole.
Yeah, after she literally leaves him handcuffed to a car that’s stuck on train tracks, it’s a bit hard to root for her.
She was always running away needed saving, it's a movie they can make it less not real life women character,
I'm hoping that there is pay off in part 2, that his chasing grace is a part of the larger scheme and there were a lot of masks & switching involved.
Ethan tells Ilsa “you stay dead” at the beginning. The fact that they never really mourn or bury her has my spidey sense tingling that she’ll come back to save the day at the climax of Part 2 the same way Hangman does in Top Gun 2.
I wish that were true but I think ilsa is dead. Ethan did mourn in his own way. He went to the roof to the exact same place where ilsa put her arms around hunt overlooking a very romantic view of venice. maybe cruise originally wanted more ilsa but I think Rebecca f. is probably super busy with season 2 of silo which she is one of the executive producers
@@lexi-conbyI mean his "mourning" is just another way to throw off the rogue A.I. i don't believe for a minute she's actually dead. They needed a blimd spot to throw of the AI prediction. What better way then a supposedly dead person who the AI doesn't account for
That would be on point
Mmmh, that would be nice!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH okay okay okay. Just might tune in for Part 2 now. haha
The box office failure is so frustrating. Due to the Barbenheimer hype, this movie didn't have a chance. Hopefully part 2 will be released in a stronger light.
It's the opposite, the reviews for this mediocre-at-best film were absurdly glowing and likely paid for
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The fact that people still post RT scores as if they are not completely contrived scores.
@@numberonedadyes, I’m sure the 94% audience score on RT and 7.8 IMDB user score were also paid for
It wasn't a bad movie by any stretch. It was just more of the same
@@numberonedad L take
This movie reminds me of going from Skyfall to Spectre, where the previous took itself very serious and the stakes were earned and then the follow up movie is like a cartoon camp that doesn't take anything serious. Very weird and disappointing for me.
But in the case of Dead Reckoning, despite the overall plot and action being campy and over-the-top, the actual characters themselves are so deadpan and portent in their exposition delivery that it makes it even harder to take anything seriously.
Ghost Protocol is still my favorite. There's just something about it that's so good.
Also, Paula Patton.
Thank you
One disappointing thing about the "big stunt" is how forced it feels. In the previous movies all these stunts are always part of the plan and so feels natural. Here Benji basically tricks him and just tells him to jump like..."Haha, sorry we have to make this stunt happen somehow, please jump".
Agreed. And don't forget that we cut away from the stunt for a while, only for Cruise to suddenly crash into a moving train and knocking out the guy that was about to kill Grace
exactly what ive been thinking
Bruh, have you even watched any of the other MI movies? Benji is constantly volunteering Ethan to do absolutely crazy shit. Literally constantly. I would consider it a plot driver in every movie since Benji came into the franchise.
@@LeviHeatonIII even then, it's usually part of the plan and not improvised on the spot by him, usually it's Ethan who does crazy shit and Benji freaks out.
@@subhamdas943- but that is exactly what happened and the only reason why Benji didn't flip out was because he didn't see it.
The scene was written very much in character with both Ethan and benji. If you watch any of the older movies again you would see a similar beat.
They did Ilsa dirty.
Agree on how killing Ilsa didnt work, i heard a review when the film came out that killing Simon Pegg would have worked better:
-he was going to the bridge anyway
-the ai asking the "are you afraid of death?" question
-proves the main characters can do things the ai wont predict
I think the plot and the movie just isn't brave enough to kill Pegg's character. But I agree, what a moment that would have been - the eager, whip smart but ultimately a little naive team member who doesn't deserve to go. Ilsa - shes cool, shes a badass and all that. But shes a tier 1 assassin/ spy. Ilsa knows the deal and she's done a lot of dodgy shit because thats the game she's in. She gets killed, its sad yes (Ethan loses a close ally) but we aren't really seeing it as an injustice. Ilsa knows this mission, like any other, could be her death and she's not afraid of it.
But Benji - that would be a bit like in Infinity War when Thanos kills Spiderman. Its a punch to the gut, you've got this likable character who's well meaning but he isn't a killer and he is really only in it for the ideology and his friends. There are many more worthy characters but it really hits you that the one who deserved it least, got killed.
Ultimately though the film wasn't brave enough for it, and we all go into the end of the first half knowing that Ilsa is doomed and Ethan is going to be chasing Grace around the place for the rest of the film, presumably before there is redemption arc. I mean, fuck, the film can't even commit to killing to killing Paris at the end after she saves Ethan and Grace. She slumps down and we're all like awww, the bad girl came good at the end classic. Then one of the CIA guys goes "hey, we got a pulse here" and its just like ah fucking fucksakes - did anyone actually fucking die in this film?!
I haven't seen the movie yet but how is Ilsa dead when she's in part 2.
@@Tanfo77 Prolly just some flashback scenes or its a resurrection which I would fucking hate
Even in theaters, I thought it was a very meh movie. There aren't really any stand-out scenes, and the big jump they hyped up wasn't nearly as cool as the ones before it. Oh and the fake out Ilsa death in the desert, only to have her actually die later on I just thought was a weird story beat.
COVID restrictions are what added to the production cost of this movie. It is my surmise, If it wasn't for COVID, then this movie wouldn't have been a flop.
The insurance co. for the film paid $70 million because of all the delays around 2 months ago. So they were close to breaking even.
Probably my biggest gripe with MI7 is that they introduce "Gabriel" as this "blast from Ethan's past" (i.e. the "dead" who's come to give Ethan his "reckoning") but there was essentially zero setup not only in this movie (basically 30 seconds of flashbacks when Ethan actually tells the story) but also zero setup in any of the previous movies or even a reference to the old TV show like Phelps was in the first movie. Honestly, once Kittridge from the first movie returned I was more expecting hacker Jack to return as well with scars and artificial body parts instead of Gabriel since that would've made more sense if a "rogue AI" was intended to be the antagonist.
I think they intentionally withdrew from the setup to save it for part 2. But they should have set this up much better in previous parts. It kind of ruins the immersion from the franchise.
I think we needed the "30 years ago" flashback to be the cold open for the movie. It may even have been shot that way originally, but then the submarine scene needed to be added to build up the newly added "Entity". In general the movie starts seeming like Ethan's past and the retcon of the IMF basically being a way to dodge prison is going to be really important, and then mostly drops it for the Entity/Gabriel stuff.
They also did some bizarre retconning with the IMF itself. In previous movies it was a government agency that openly worked with the CIA, etc. Here, suddenly it's some secret society like the "Wizarding World of Harry Potter" or the Illuminati.
And the backstories of all the agents were suddenly, 'You all did something terrible. So instead of going to jail, you chose to work for the IMF." What? Benji did some horrible crime?
Gabriel was the captain Marvel of the MI franchise.
Dead Reckoning does stand for how the Entity AI tracks its predictions. Not necessarily Gabriel giving it to Ethan.
Even the bike stunt scene felt totally out of place. Its forced.
Just a simple change in script, "instead of benji giving directions to Ethan, why not the director let AI fool Ethan at that time, where AI motivation is to kill Ethan or not let him board the train. So when ethan reached Mountain Edge, the AI reveals itself and says 'you lost ethan'. And when Ethan realises its AI, he shows that he can't be defeated by some machine again & again by jumping from cliff..
i hate how much better this sounds, especially that retroactively this idea would have been foreshadowed by the AI mimicking Benji's voice to give directions.. the Entity really felt like this serious, menacing threat to the whole world that did.. nothing basically
glad someone pointed these things out.. also like how Benji is driving a driverless car after the whole thing with AI trying to kill everyone and how the face machine breaks for no reason whereas it broke in fallout after knocking some guy out
I thought the Entity hacked and sabotaged the face machine?
@@reaktorleak89I’m pretty sure they just say it broke.
The things I didnt like about this movie were the fact that some bits went on too long, like the beginning of the handcuffed car scene, and the empty promises, like the buyer, who quickly dies, whos going on a train, that we didnt get to see. Instead, we got to see a different train scene, that ends in the falling carts, that (in my opinion) also went on just a bit too long. Overall, I did like this movie, but its not better than fallout
I 1000% agree it was just too much of the same. When I go into a sequel I want to see something different. I want to see them try do something different instead of the same old formula every single time. Thats what was wrong in my opinion.
I watched it last night. My god was it long. They could have edited out so much superfluous content.
@@TheTriumfAnt Exactly and most of it didn't go anywhere!! I DON'T WANNA SEE A MOVIE WITH AI possibly taking over the world how many times have seen and heard of that?
They completely undid Luther and Benji. Every single character now revolves around Ethan and everyone loves Ethan and such. It did not feel right
Oh Boy those falling carts... At some Point i thaught there would be some themed carts as Well he Had to climb, Like a kitchen or disco Wagon or a Zoo, might have be as Well there why Not. Still a good movie but yea, that Part was to Long :D
I watched this last night and there were three things that bugged me. First was the exposition dump where multiple characters were informing their boss of the Entity and after the first persons sentence ended the next person would pick it up seamlessly, like they were Borg or something. Second was the retcon of how the IMF works and even how some people came to be members without spoiling much. Third was confirmed for me at 7:30 , I was watching the movie and I kept thinking "I bet they shot this without a script in place". A lot of pointless running around areas and choreographed fights that didn't really mean much and could have plot written around them later, and it looks like they did just that.
Also not a fan of Grace constantly making idiotic decisions for someone who has successfully eluded authorities for years and constantly betraying Ethan, yet he's like "I trust you! Women are my weakness!"
I did too lol.
Yes the borg scene really set the tone for the rest of the movie for me.
“Borg” scene, you nailed how ridiculous that scene was.
Finally someone said it that expo dump was insane. Noone was even having a conversation they were all just saying their lines and it was ridiculously forced.
I was really holding out for there to be some kind of hidden villain but the whole AI thing was super weak for me.
@@Onyx474 I thought they were the AI.
I completely agree too. I was so shocked when no one else was talking about all of this and then I thought maybe my expectations were just too high.
I thought it was shite, really shite. Cliches done badly.
I thought so too, but nah if I’m catching these flaws on 1 viewing then it’s just kinda bad. Grace shouldn’t have ran away from the dude saving her
I hate that they seem to be so proud of the fact they had no idea what they were doing. Like they are proud that all they managed to do was "solve" a bunch of problems to make a final product, instead of a movie plot.
I think it was disappointing how with each entry the franchise has improved upon itself with Fallout being an absolute peak and by contrast this film feels like a major step back. In Fallout you had the halo jump, rooftop chase sequence, helicopter chase, and cliffside fight as major highlights. Every sequence was one upping the previous. In Dead Reckoning the marketing and the film itself builds up to only one major stunt, that being the motorbike cliff jump which is then immediately ruined by the schlock of him conveniently and ridiculously flying through the exact window he needs to take out a henchman about to shoot Grace. And that was kind of it. In a franchise dependent on one upping the previous entry with each consecutive film I never felt anything come even close to Fallout.
Completely agree. Its kinda had the James Bond effect happen to the franchise - Skyfall was an absolute triump of storytelling. It came after a couple of decent films (actually Casino Royal was good) and it was a billion dollar success. Then it dipped a bit with Spectre, being a bit average but still good, and then into No Time To Die which was just a big "huh?!".
Massive film, great plot beats and devices but a poorly cast villain and some very weird plot directions that ultimately left the whole film feeling... a bit meh. Sure the final act swings for the fences but I actually can't remember much of several "important" scenes or characters leading up to that. I can remember the entirety of Skyfall like I remember the entirety of Fallout but No Time To Die and Dead Reckoning are just huge films that lumber along, rather than dancing like their predecessors.
Still one of my favorite movies of 2023. I think top 3 MI movie or just right outside the top 3. It's significantly better than most movies that came out this year, an incredible time, amazing action and soundtrack. Saw it a few times in theaters.
I'm really glad that I didn't see it, ill wait until part 2 to watch part one.
Fallout is Masterpiece in every possible way.
Ghost Protocol and Rogue Nation were also great
The core problem with the franchise is that they try to tie everything to Ethan personally. In most movies in the franchise things revolve around him and his past or present acquaintances, and it was already jarring about 3 movies ago. All the villains who want to conquer or destroy the world are from Ethan's past and they all either did, or want to kill Ethan's love interests... Come on, buzz off. Give us a villain that doesn't know Ethan or care about his girlfriends, please. If things go on like this it will turn into a farce like the Fast franchise with the forced 'family' messaging.
Bro in Asia MI7 box office collection record but it's not Big marketing because in Asia China film industry and India film industry but u know many actors following Tom cruise movie and copy just like asian Big movie Pathan movie please watch (SRK movie) then realised what happened
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Exactly, like wtf ?
It's one thing to make a character die (Rebecca/Ilsa, I will love you forever!!), but it's another thing to REPLACE her so vulgalry... And I will never forgive them.
Cherry on the cake, Ilsa Faust's death was totally messed up.
Apart from that, Dead Reckoning Pt. 1 is by far the worst MI movie since MI-2. They have now entered the Fast And Furious mode, and it was just painfull to watch.
The movie franchise I've loved the most is now dead to me.
RIP Mission Impossible. This used to be a fun series.
I understand that but don't give up yet till part 2 comes out
@@TheAdventuresofMightyThor I understand what you mean, but I have one big (yes, another one, lol) problem : I (really) dislike Hayley Atwell, I think she's a bad actress, and that she don't fit with that role. (But once again, that's only my opinion. ;-)
Omg, I wholeheartedly agree with you.
But for me, the biggest downturn was the treatment of female characters, esp. Ilsa's death, which literally made no sense in every single way. How could she be overpowered by Gabriel? Why would she risk her life for this random girl she has met a day ago? It doesn't make sense and the way she is just replaced with Grace is just undeserving. I felt like the aftermath of her death was very little and considering her history with Ethan, the team and overall in the franchise, her death was pointless, it didn't move the story or had any actual impact. Additiionally, I thought that Paris' story towards the end became kind of basic, with her nearly dying and now probably helping the IMF. The only female character's story I somewhat liked was the White Widow's, as she had an actual plotline, motives and sort of conflicting storyline. SHe was the only charcter who was morally ambiguous, everyone els (at least in my opinino) was very black or white in regards to their motives and morals. ANd in all honesty, Grace was jut annoying.
Grace is just so bad and annoying. They let the evil chick live and killed Ilsa. WHY??? To prove they are a serious movie like Secret Invasion killed off Maria Hill to prove it was "serious". Such a HUGE waste. Makes me so mad.
Agreed. Gabriel does not kill a woman like Grace so easily.
honestly - part one plot is replacing one female with another female like it doesn't matter , like Grace is some by stander. MI turned into James Bond (his worst version with chicks and unesssesary dramatic fights and not a single complex spy plan)
@@GalinaEvJames bond ended when they decided on Daniel Craig. It didn’t feel like Bond. James Bond.
Exactly. In MI3 when they killed off Lindsay Farris -- a character the audience had NEVER SEEN BEFORE -- the movie paid her more respect than MI7 did for Ilsa. Lindsay died during a badass mission, not some pointless fight on a bridge. Ethan was emotionally shattered when Lindsay died, and the movie even allowed her death to have meaning when she sent Ethan that micro-dot from beyond the grave. In MI7, everyone just shrugs their shoulders after Ilsa died, because--hey, there's a new hottie in the movie!
It was okay, but debatable it needed to be 2 movies. My favourite bit is how you have all those people on the same train apparently without noticing each other.
They threw Ilsa away like trash and made it pretty obvious it's not worth caring about any of the characters anymore. Dead Reckoning is absolutely in the bottom half of the franchise. I like Haley Atwell but their desperation to make us instantly care about her was way too apparent.
This video was very validating to me. I walked out of this movie extremely disappointed and feeling quite isolated that everyone else seemed to think it was flawless.
Right? Like did people lost their memory or something, do they not know that there are other M.I. movies to compare this to. This movie was such a colossal disappointment for me and an insult to the franchise.
It lost money for a reason. Sometimes critics jump on a bandwagon and it then doesn't deliver. That's what happened here.
@@p0_0kie_001yeah I was hyped for fallout, and even more since this movie came off of fallout, but it was just kinda bad. Grace was dumb. Car chase was fine but when I realized that was the one of the only action scenes, made me feel weird. Final action set was dope asf but just not enough
19:00 About the budget. one of the main reasons It ballooned out of control is because of the multiple production shutdowns, due to covid protocals.
Where they continued to pay the entire crew. It was a good hearted thing.
@@pseudonymousbeing987 most definitely.
I am mixed on this movie. I LOVE these movies and was so excited for a 2 part finale but seeing as how they killed off Ilsa, a character that has been built up for a couple of movies and is, imo, one of the coolest additions to the newer movies, with such little meaning and fanfare has me doubting they can stick the landing.
I didn't mind it necessarily, but I think what really disappointed me was it felt like they basically traded her out for Hayley Atwell's character. Atwell did a good job, but why you would trade a perfectly good character for her character is just dumb.
@@Lovicide Grace and Ilsa are two completely different characters, they’re both just female side characters. Ilsa is highly trained, experienced and practically fearless. Grace only has some skills, basically one the same level of training as those background character security guards and isn’t portrayed to be an absolute badass when it comes to situations that anyone would be scared in.
@@Lovicide she might have decided to leave the franchsie.
@@Matt-wb8ni agreed 100%. She feels like a newbie when it comes to the franchise. Your comment actually makes me appreciate Ilsa's death a bit more actually. And to be honest, there's definitely been quite a few female characters that come and go during the film series, like Paula Patton in Ghost Protocol or the female in Mission impossible 2 who I can't recall the name of. Both great actors that just kind of left the franchise.
I agree there was waaaaay too much exposition in the movie. Really got tired of people standing around talking about the AI.
The early expostion scene between the various heads of the intelligence agencies felt like something from a Neil Breen movie.
Watched it with the wife. We laughed, enjoyed the big action sequences, noticed how flat the 'big' jump felt and only forgave Grace because, unlike that Fleabag in the last Indy movie, she didn't seem to be actively trying to get Ethan killed, just inconvenienced long enough for her to Nope out of the whole situation - that at least made sense.
Grace doesn't see any upside to staying anywhere near whatever the crazy people are talking about for most of the movie and that is relatable.
Fingers crossed Part 2 makes this whole.
Blud lost the second love of his life did not grief for a single second to literally find a new one
considering they were writing the script while filming its still impressive how good it was
That’s apparently quite common nowadays to film while still writing it.. always ends up being disjointed tho
Usually it's VFX/editing related like Marvel stuff tends to do the Action/VFX set pieces way in advance and build a story around it. Stuff takes time so you have to do that stuff as early as possible to have a decent release schedule
That's how they do these movies. It's how Tom and McQuarrie work
But they don’t need to be do that and be lazy…
Even both Rogue Nation and Fallout have incomplete scripts when they made it.
The budget for Dead Reckoning was originally $190m to Fallout's $178m. It ballooned to $291m due to multiple COVID shutdowns. However, after a $71m payout from the insurance company the budget was more like $220m. With a worldwide gross of $568m, this was hardly a $100m flop.
this video creator can't do simple math...
This 220 m is only the budget for the movie period, with advertising costs and everything else always assume that the budget you see for the movie is doubled. so from 291 mill this movie would costs something like 600 mill
@@jormungandr4690 Yes, I'm aware of how all that works. I'm also aware that many films are considered "hits" after covering the initial investment (budget) and then look to ancillaries to cover all the other monies spent.
@@jormungandr4690 Actually, more on point... 55% of the $172m domestic would be roughly $95m brought back to the studio. 45% of the $395m made internationally would be roughly $177m brought back. That's around $272m earned back on a $220m spend (after subtracting the $71m payout from insurance off $291m). So, they clearly covered the $220m and even had some go toward those extra advertising/marketing dollars, that continue to be covered more every passing day from ancillaries. So, again...not a $100m flop by any stretch of the imagination.
It was a flop and Tom Cruise is a weirdo cult leader.
Thanks, finally said. I would even ad the fact that apparently pickpocketing skills are essential to saving the world, and professional pickpocketers are even ready to join IMF.
Filmento try not to call everything a flop or failure challenge: impossible
The biggest problem of this movie for me was the trailer. It gave away nearly everything and every major action scene. By time I watched the movie I knew what was coming and when. After the movie I walked out thinking I’ve just scene more of what I’ve already seen a bit of.
Have barely thought about it since whereas with Fallout, I couldn’t stop thinking about it for ages.
Only plot point I didn’t like was killing one female and immediately replacing her with another. Didn’t like that at all.
That said, it is a very good movie overall.
I never watch trailers for movies now. Almost all of them ruin the movie just to get you on the hype train.
Dead Reckoning felt like they finally crossed the line between a movie and a rollercoaster ride that the previous entries balanced so well. The franchise has always been (with the exception of MI2) half thriller and half action. The big stunts worked so well because you knew the stakes and were hyped up by the tense build-up and detailed preparation preceding them. But here, the action just sort of happens. Stakes are so vague that I was rarely afraid of what might happen if the heroes didn't succeed. It's a pity, too, because the smaller scenes used to be some of the best parts, like the heist in MI1, Kremlin in MI4 or the opera assassination in MI5.
Opera scene in RN was amazing, it's the kind of thing that should be in a James Bond film.
I will never accept that this would be better than Fallout…not a chance 😂😂😂
I really wanted the AI to be controlling Gabriel like a human puppet hence why Gabriel would be cold and machine like making Ethan realize that the AI is continuing to evolve, taking control of all of humanities natural freedom.
Nah cus one of the overarching themes of this movie is that AI cant do shit without human input without humans AI is just there not a threat just a non factor which is what it's like in reality that makes this movie even more believable
Yeah, That would have been RAD though..
You should watch Person of Interest!
I do think that's where the story is headed. That scene with him in the box on the train: it seemed that he had a wireless link to the AI. I'm thinking he wants the keys so that HE can be in control of the AI again, because when he first started trying to acquire it, it wound up taking him over.
@@internisustotally that show is so underrated 😅
I was quite disappointed when I saw this movie. With Rogue Nation and Fallout I saw them several times in theaters. With this one, I have had little desire tp watch it again.
I'm so glad someone else feels the same as me about this film! I ended up seeing it twice - not by choice - and both times I thought it was mediocre.
Exactly. Since the 3rd one, I’ve always viewed them as the perfect theater experience and see them multiple times (Fallout was the most with 3 visits). With how they’d been improving with each entry, I expected to see this one a few times, but left after the first viewing feeling very unsatisfied.
It was the first one where it felt like they planned the action sequences first, then added in dialogue and characters. I also did not appreciate how Ilsa was handled!
Ditto to everything said on this mini thread of folks whose opinions on the movie are correct.
I know this stuff is supposed to be subjective but we were ALL massive fans of at least the previous 3 movies, which had indeed been steadily getting better and the drop off here was objectively significant.
It honestly doesn't hold a candle to Fallout and I prefer both Rogue Nation & Ghost Protocol to this movie. And I'd be willing to bet money I'm not alone in this.
It's objectively of worse quality than the other 3 movies in terms of gripping storytelling and allowing the characters to drive the plot in a way that makes sense.
@@ClownWorldExplained Hell yes. I’m wondering how there’s supposed to be a part 2 to this story when part 1 pretty well did everything I could think of doing. I really struggle to see why this movie needed to be split into two parts. Could’ve easily been one 2hr-2h15m movie and entirely cut out a couple scenes.
Rogue Nation, Fallout, and Ghost Protocol were great. Even today. Dead Reckoning was trash.
i dont get why they talk about how unprepared they were so much, as if it is a flex. when you just wing it, its usually never as good as it would be if you thought about it and have a plan
I felt the same way about a lot of these things, but found it hard to put words to what I felt was wrong in the theater. This explained it excellently.
Filmento is one of those rare youtubers that make their sponsor segments funny and entertaining
The "Got'em!" had me weak AF when I realized I had just been dooped out of skipping the ad 😂😭💀
Jeremy Jahns is another.
You’re completely right about this. I felt exactly the same way, glad someone is pointing these things out.
Have some critical sense!
MY BRAIN WAS FRIED HEARING ABOUT THE MEGUFFIN AND THE ENTITY FOR THE BILLIONTH TIME
how were they allowed to proceed without a finished script? that is insane on any level
Let me tell you about filmmaking for the past century.
It’s more common than you think
There’s definitely been a decent numbers of great films without finished scripts
Everyone thinks they can Ironman their way to a great movie.
They did that either the LOTR trilogy
@@lynnerose7891 To be fair they knew the story of LOTR even if they didn't have all the scenes and dialogue finalized before shooting. And shooting LOTR was over many many months - so writing along the way could be more organic
The train sequence in this movie is worth the price of admission.
the train sequence is boring, LONG and ridiculous. action set pieces should last 5 minutes max.
Not really.
@@emhu2594maybe
But it was still tense
Nobody tell Em here about the movie Ronin.
Train sequence was stupid and too long. The narrow alley fight was the only creative action set
MI6 was the peak, and the most disturbing and disappointing thing is that MI7 deletes all the good of MI6. The relationship with Ilsa, the suspicious husband of his ex, the friendship values, the imminent risk and not telling us something bad will happen (whatever may be) if AI gets loose, instead of literally dealing with the issue (atom bomb), the introduction of new characters was awful, come and go with no real consequences, no pay offs.
I tend to agree with you for the most part, but to me this movie didn't do anything new with the series and I do agree they peaked the series after fallout fallout was the peak and I don't see the movies getting any better
@@flyguy7825 perhaps the will try to pull off a No Time to Die and link Gabriel with some previous movies and villains, but neh. Or give Ethan an honorable ending. I really thought Julia's husband was an apostle, that the relation with Ilsa was going to reach the next level as was tainted previously, that the story and relationships would progress, instead, disappeared or stagnated, and Ethan is a very friendship and value person, which was never challenged in this movie. I mean, I truly hope MI8 is a really good movie, better than MI7, but I think it made too much damage to expectations. Nevertheless MI7 is enjoyable bringing old characters and many easter eggs, but broke the sequence of each movie from MI2 on getting better and better.
@@GarfieldRex Yes I agree too I fear this series is on life support For I even walked in and saw the movie. I automatically knew that. Ethan Hunt's team and including him was never any real danger of dying or failing to complete their mission. I mean they always complete their mission. They always do it in spectacular ways and they always do it against the odds!!
9:06 It’s amazing how many times companies are willing to spend Millions of dollars on a movie where they don’t even know what they’re going to film ahead of time. The amount of prep and work that just regular jobs sometimes require to come off properly and/or not get fired for lack of performance and these assholes get to make spend and make millions to make it up as they go. And if it underperforms their punishment is to do it again in two years. 🤦♂️
1. the villain doesnt make any sense. An AI is the villain now ?? i still dont know what's the story
2. Ethan choosing grace whom he just met over his love LISA ??? were the writers smoking??
3. the stunts were any special and were so forced
You were speaking nothing but facts. Mi7 dropped the ball so so hard that I only watched it once so far despite seeing the previous ones multiple times in a theater
D.R. was just an overall downgrade to the others. It shouldn't be compared to Fallout or Rogue Nation. It's a disjointed mess.
@@reesespieces8173 Both of those are average action movies at best.
I couldn't even finish it!
@@michaelkaniecki1998 I struggled to finish it & would rather get kicked in the nuts than have to sit through that again.
"The key could have been a jar of piss." LOL
When you get rid of a fan favorite character like Ilsa, fans like myself speak with their wallets. I have watched every MI at the theater and bought the disc copy when they came out. Knowing Ilsa was this disrespected I didn't go see it and I didn't buy the physical disc when it came out this month. Great characters die all the time, but the way they dispatched of Isla didn't match up with her skill set. She deserved a more epic death, or a ride off into the sunset if Rebecca needed to leave. Totally not interested if Isla is truly dead.
Agree, this was beyond frustrating.
They replaced a great character and fan favorite (Ilsa) with a terribly annoying nobody (Grace).
What where they thinking?
they'll bring her back dont worry
Rebecca Ferguson wanted out. She said so recently because she was busy with Dune and other movies already scheduled. She probably figured MI 8 will be the last anyway. I think killing the character by perhaps by having had an accident or something less morbid would have been better.
@gloriafalkson2363 Yes, they could have given her a better send-off. I do understand her being busy with other projects, but darn, they could have made her departure more respectful.
In the first half an hour of this movie I knew I’m gonna hate it and it’s gonna be a chore to sit through it. In the first half an hour of Fallout I knew it’s gonna be one of the best action movies ever for me.
Imo the best MI movie was actually Ghost Protocol. I never really cared about the emotion in any of the movies because all of the stakes were always very artificial. I don't think that the world is going to end in movie number 7, and I don't care if Tom Cruise's one-note girlfriend gets killed. I loved GP because the action there is the most entertaining. The action is built with either more realistic stakes (In the Kremlin sequence the consequence for failure wasn't the end of the world, but rather getting discovered, which while in theory meant the end of the world might be unavoidable, for the movie's purposes it meant an action sequence that the characters aren't interested in will happen) or with more relatable fears (The whole Dubai sequence is incredible at capturing the essence of fear of heights). In fallout, I didn't really care for any of the action sequences, except for maybe the skydiving one. The helicopter chase felt too disconnected from reality it was hard to feel any suspense for Tom Cruise. Personally I do think that MI7 is better than Fallout, mostly because of the final train sequence, but neither are anywhere as good in my opinion as GP.
Ghost protocol was also my fave. But I have really come to like Ilsa and was so mad at the way they threw her a way. Worst than how they got rid of Han solo in star wars. No send off or heroic struggle. Just toss her in the trash and keep going. Awful.
the AI, the godam key, weird romance with grace (btw her character reminds me of Kim Bauer in 24 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️) And what happened to the team deciding together on a plan? I agree, it was a major disappointment in comparison with the previous ones. Waste of money & time on both ends
I couldn't agree more with your review. I bought the film on Amazon Prime because I am a huge MI fan (I didn't want to go to the cinema to see it), especially from MI3 onwards, and Elsa's character was my favourite badass female character, since she was Ethan's equal. In this film, I felt as if her character was written in as an afterthought and not consistent with MI5 & 6 ie her female character was a great draw to female fans of the franchise. What a huge disappointment 😮💨
They could have cut down on the production cost even more if lockpicking lawyer was in it. ...and also on time
The release date of the movie kinda screwed it. I enjoyed the movie since I knew I was going into a 2 hour action movie with little to no plot. I also feel bad that Tom risked his life for a movie that flopped.
Fallout was also the best in the franchise by far. I agree with you there
grace is this weird tumor that the movie revolves around, and i do not understand why ethan treats her like the most important person in it
You’re absolutely right. The female characters are terribly written in this one, really took me out of the movie, and the lack of jaw dropping scenes just compound the feeling.
I think they won a lawsuit or something with insurance to where the budget was dropped down to $220 million. The turnout is still terrible, but at least there’s that.
The macguffin key in this one was unfortunate, BUT, the BEST Mission Impossible of all, MI:3, also had the most useless Macguffin of all, the rabbit's foot, and yet, they made it work, because the movie was deeply character driven, it wasn't "about" the mission, it was about Ethan's love for his wife, where the rabbit's foot was just the backdrop. So, there's nothing wrong with the key necessarily, it's just that MI:7 didn't pull it off like MI:3 did. MI:7 didn't have a compelling enough character story to make us forget about the key, they focused too much on the key.
Lol. I do love the skyscraper jump but imho mi4 is hard to beat. Not because of the stunts but because they were always one step behind and things didn’t work. The car parking structure scene was very creative
@@lexi-conby MI:4 is great, they're all great, but it is the worst of the whole series. MI:4 has great individual stunts and set pieces if you chop it up into small parts and watch them without context, but when taken together as a whole, the story of MI:4 is an absolute dumpsterfire that makes zero sense, and has the most shallow unmemorable villain Ethan has ever faced. If you enjoy the IMF team struggling and being "one step behind", well, that's best done in MI:3, as we see their triumphs and many failures despite their best efforts. MI:4, however, just makes the team look like incompetent bumbling fools, really taking them out of character, and making the team look stupid, like they only won by sheer luck.
The fight in the car factory is creative, yes, but like all the scenes in MI:4, it lacks substance and makes no sense. Why would a car factory just be operating at full capacity with no employees in sight? Because the writers wanted to make a cool looking scene. And they did. But story-wise, it's junk.
Honestly, the whole exposition scene where 4 people literally had lines in an exact sequence one after the other had me laughing because it didn't feel organic as a discussion at all. The script was prolly like
Question XYZ:
Person A:
Person B:
Person C:
Person D:
And copy pasted until the Kittridge spoke. Had me frustrated to the point of laughter
And yes, completely agree with every point made. Can't believe the story we got after Rogue Nation and Fallout which handled storylines and characters better. (Ilsa's death is the biggest crime in the franchise or maybe of all movies this year bye)
This movie was so confusing and even with 20 minutes of exposition it still didn’t explain why the submarine mattered or why the Buy had to happen on a train or why Ilsa showed back up at all…
So you're an idiot who can't follow a plot, got it...
When Bengy put the car in auto-drive did anyone expect the AI to take it over and cause the car to crash. Killing Bengy? Missed opportunity (even though I like Bengy).
Jon snow: " I don't want it"
Ethan hunt:"Grace...Grace"
😂😂stop it!
The AI build up in the beginning was so cool but then nothing was made of it other than tons of highly unlikely predictions.
I understand the producers have to push the big stuns as this is Tom Cruise superhero flick, but damn, nobody can convince me that Tom Cruise jumping from the ramp with motorcycle is cool or hard to do.
W/regards to Gabriel, they should've written him as someone who pulling the strings for Syndicate or the apostles on Fallout and Solomon Lane was his henchman or partner, and now that Solomon Lane is gone he's forced to come out of the shadows in search for the 🔑 as an opening scene/sequence of events at the beginning of the movie. Make him be on the hunt for the key at the beginning of the movie before Ethan Hunt gets his mission.
Make Ethan Hunt learn about Gabriel and the key during his mission debrief should he choose to accept it and he needs to learn from Solomon Lane what the key is about and why is Gabriel looking for the key.
I wish they had the final two films being about The Syndicate. An A.I as the villian is dumb and something from a sequel to Die Another Day.
Waiting for what hell you'll rain for the marvels
He probably doesn't need to do a review for that film (if he didn't care about the money) because the MCU has shown it's inner problems so many times that we already know why the Marvels is so bad
Yeah, the Ilsa thing was my biggest issue. It felt incredibly lazy and cliche to fridge her. All the more surprising coming from someone like McQuarrie who likes to subvert expectations and tropes and who handled the female characters so well in previous screenplays.
Worse is that the entire movie is structured to be a "meet cute" between Cruise and Atwell, to the point that it's the overarching B-Plot. That would be fine if it were the first film in a franchise, but since it's the seventh and Ethan is already attached, disposing of Ilsa felt especially manufactured and cynical. And the way that they got rid of Ilsa was comically meaningless. She didn't go out like a bad-ass; she was protecting a largely useless character who didn't even need to be on that bridge in the first place. Everything after that (especially the enemies-to-lovers flirting between Ethan and Grace) just didn't sit right.
With like 2/3 of the movie's runtime being tainted with that bit of laziness, a lot of the smaller things started bothering me as well. Like how the White Widow--who was so cool and intelligent in Fallout--was now being played like a cartoony Harry Potter villain. ... Or how the bad guy knew precisely when to drop off the train to fall into the truck. Yes, I know he's connected to the Entity, but there is still no possible way either of them could've predicted there would be that fight with Ethan on that specific spot on the train. ... Also, did I miss something? How did Ethan even know that the bridge was going to be blown up in the first place?
Until I saw this film I thought that it was only complaining feminists who talked about a female character being "fridged", but with the whole way Ilsa's death was handled, the only way I could describe it was that she got fridged. The whole setup in which she and Ethan have a pseudo-romantic evening together in Venice just seemed so crowbarred in to raise the stakes so that she can be killed and Ethan will be pissed about it. The worst part is that it didn't even matter. If there were consequences such as Ethan actually killing Gabriel for revenge, which meant that they lost track of the AI, then her death would have served some purpose in the plot. But as it happened, Ethan tried to kill him but failed (as he was stopped by the American agents), and then Gabriel escaped anyway. So in the end, Ilsa just got killed off for dramatics and it had no actual consequences.
One thing i don't understand is, why don't they just destroy the key, Or throw it in a volcano? Who cares what it unlocks? Also who got the keys from the original Sevastopol wreck?
Honestly I don’t think the flop comes from the movie nor looping technique of the plot it’s more about the audience and the time frame between Oppenheimer/Barbie and the marvels that everybody were waiting to laugh at
Absolutely spot on. Granted, the length and overall quality of this movie didn’t help it, but it would’ve done MUCH better had it not been released just 12 days before that stupid Barbie Oppenheimer nonsense (still haven’t understood the hype for either movie). Whoever thought to release MI when they did needs to be slapped.
Killing Ilsa is one of the biggest problem of the movie, yet it's just the tip of the iceberg. Ilsa became another female protagonist killed in the fridge. Throughout the story, Ethan's team hardly gained upper hand yet we are not shown how they lost control. Remember the time when Ethan Hunt encountered a trouble and always came up on top? That is gone.
edit: due to this movie being so incompetent compared to fallout, I now consider it to be a spin-off
I wouldn't say she got fridged, we spend the opening with her character, and while it sucks that she's gone, they used her death as the emotional punch the movie needed. Hunley dies around the same time, and with even less screentime in fallout but no one says he got fridged.
@@aidanfrancis2193 i see, but any leaders who show willingness to help Ethan always dies😂, in ghost protocol, secretary died. I know this is an emotional punch , still it doesn’t feel right
No, if we're being totally practical, the biggest problem with the movie was how much it cost to make. Its budget was so large it left itself next to rational means of turning a meaningful profit unless everybody went to see it like ten times each.
@@aidanfrancis2193 Thats because Hunley was unexpected. He was also sort of a divisive figure, kinda playing for MI, kinda playing to the CIA... he comes good in the end and commits to Ethan and the team's plan by sacrificing himself. Its a hell of a move that pins his colours to the flag. Ilsa on the other hand... she's cool, shes a badass, she's Ethan's contemporary in many ways but thats kinda the problem. Shes a tier 1 assassin/ spy. Ilsa has done her fair share of questionable things for MI6 and then later the highest bidder but she knows the game. Her death is a sad thing but its not motivating. She fights a fight, warrior to warrior, and comes off second best. Its not a tragedy or an injustice and so the scene was just empty. If they'd killed Benji instead, well now that would have been brave and emotionally charged - but no, they went the boring predictable route.
I struggled to stay awake during this exposition-the-movie
Agree 100%, came out of the cinema very frustrated as I also love Fallout which for me is the best action film since Mad Max Fury Road.
MI7 was a major letdown and a frustrating experience on many levels.
It ranks as one of the lesser MI films for me and I love this franchise.
fake killing ilsa in the beginning of the movie just made me think that the second time was also fake and wait for a reveal later on. It didn't help me cope with the idea of her death like you said. It would have been more impactful if we didn't have that first time. Other than that, great video, i totally agree that fallout was waaaaay better :-)
What got me, was that everyone just knew where to turn up, police in the chases would be lost and then all 8 units traveling together would be right there, Ethan got lost in Venice by the AI but got to the bridge that just happened to have the fight on it, then side kick turns up with the boat at same spot, he jumps off cliff and just happens to come through the one window, in the one carriage where she is, he jumps out of the train and just happens to end up where the side kick is with a car in the middle of nowhere, maybe allude to this as part of the dialog.
biggest turn off for me is making brain dead action movies into 2 parter. spiderman animated movie was smart in not advertising it as 2 part movie lot of us were so disappointed when they abruptly ended that movie. whole theatre moaned when that movie ended. this movie was bloated for no good reason just to drag into 2 movies. action scenes were great but had ton of pacing issues. they should learn from john wick series. imagine they setup that whole duel and cut it off at the end and said wait a year for next movie.
There was a point while watching this movie where I remember thinking: "If I was this Entity of theirs, I'd simply create myself an avatar of the most gorgeous woman in existence, cry in front of the IMF about how I don't wanna die nor be the slave of some nation and BOOM. Not only would Ethan Hunt not kill me, he'd probably overthrow some goverment for me"
My biggest problem was Ethan crashing into the train car at the perfect time. That was too much.
More minor problems were how the females fought. Weapons are made to be felt, not seen, so it made no sense for Grace to show the first knife to Gabriel, and it was incredibly stupid to show him the second knife. But the much bigger problem was Ilsa fighting with the sword. She had the much greater reach advantage over Gabriel's knife, but she kept doing the fighting up close as she did in Fallout. I could understand McQuarrie wanting to write it that way for the kinetic action, but Ilsa never would have fought like that because that not only nullified her big advantage but it also minimized the usefulness of the sword. Another problem was when the operative chasing Ethan and Grace were fighting Paris. Paris was shooting from behind the vehicle's door, but her legs were completely exposed. The average cop may not notice that, but the operatives chasing Ethan should have noticed.
Gabriel's arrival in a box could be explained as that was the greatest probability The Entity saw for success. As for the choice, I guess that was Ilsa showing up before he killed Grace.
I also didn't like how they turned every IMF operative into a criminal rather than a volunteer.
It was literally the same movie we've seen in the series almost three or four times. Tom Cruise. As much as I like him, he continues to make the same types of movies. It's almost like he is so comfortable in his comfortable zone and is scared to try something different not to mention he is said that he wants to do even more Mission Impossible movies🙄 I think the series is on life support right now.
Glad someone thinks the same
@@fabooshka Yeah, it wasn't a bad movie by any means but it's a movie I've seen 100 times in terms of plot action, tropes and cliches. Never not once that. I feel that Ethan Hunt and his team was ever in any danger of not completing their mission or getting killed.
I was bored as hell in the theater throughout the whole movie because it was just too predictable.
The main stunt felt flat on screen and felt forced, 40mins was spent on the same scrpit repeated three times. Seriously how many times can your script involve Hunt finding Grace, Grace runs away. It was an ok film but MI3 MI4 MI5 and MI6 are way better.
I honestly thought I was losing my mind, reading all of these raving reviews for this movie. Imho, it's even worse than MI2.
Killing Ilsa, and especially doing it like that? Unforgivable. Absolutely lost any interest in the moive after that, I almost walked out of the screening. And Grace was so freaking annoying, which in turn made Ethan look so bloody dumb, going after her again and again and again. I have sooo many issues with this movie, man. And I am so disappointed and heartbroken, because I absolutely loved RN and Fallout.
I won't even bother going to see MI8. I'm done with this franchise.
Honestly this "AI has an evil henchman" reminded me a lot of Person of Interest show. Actually I wonder why it has only one, while I could've just stole some funds and hire a PMC to overwhelm the protags with the sheer force. Maybe it would be too similar to Rogue Nation?
re: "Honestly" = when you are "dishonest" ... will you let us know ?!?
Excellent analysis. The second time that wench betrayed me she would have been taking a dirt nap.
This is the first time Mapother Cruise's age has ever been noticeable on screen to me. I doubt things will ever get better from here.
when he jumped off the cliff he was like "no one can do this" i hated that so much. everyone can do it, i can do it too. he got paid so much money to doing it
I don't think this was awful. But I was underwhelmed by this.
Honestly, as somebody who found Fallout underwhelming, this movie was frustrating because it doubled down on the issues that movie had, underwhelming villains and a focus on Ethan's love life. Walker and Lane were barely a threat (still can't get over the fact Walker got his ass kicked by Alec Baldwin), so the A.I. (hyped up as being able to alter reality, only to pull the same hacking shit every villain does), Gabriel (teases a connection with Ethan that goes nowhere, falls for the oldest trick in the book in the finale, like, he and the A.I. didn't take pickpocketing into account?! Oh, and if this is "all part of the plan" in part 2 it just makes Gabriel's presence in the finale pointless) and Paris (lost the fight in her first direct confrontation with Ethan despite being armed and having a numbers advantage, and don't even get me started about her "redemption", Ethan sparing her felt like it was more because he had to rush to get to Ilsa) were reduced to being complete jokes. Fallout's finale reduced Ilsa into being a love interest, and not only do they double down on that we now we have a second one in Grace to make proceedings even more insufferable.
Fallout didn’t reduce Ilsa to a love interest at all. It specifically subverts that trope. She’s there for her reasons & trying to get her life back. They didn’t have a kissing scene specifically here cause Rebecca Ferguson made it clear she’d rather die than be the love interest. Like if you found Fallout underwhelming I don’t know how to help you lmao.
Just zero appreciation for actual craft? Watch the blocking & composition. Look at the sound design. It’s use of light & shadows. It’s masterful.
It's good movie and record for all MI movie in Asia but sad domestic results
They spent like 20 minutes running around an airport chasing each other.... not the height of MI.
It was so annoying to watch the girl run away and have tom cruise go save her AGAIN
The first DePalma Mission Impossible is still the gold standard in my opinion. The true thinking man's action film, and spawned a hundred copycats with all their incredible set pieces
Couldn't agree more 👍
In my opinion this film only surpasses MI2 & MI3.
Ilsa’s dead did it for me. No pay off, no reason why he’d choose grace over ilsa. My friend and I who are ilsa’s simp just sat there in silence until the movie ends after that, in our own room too. Agree with everything in this vid.
This might be my most enjoyable and most relatable movie review breakdown ever, I was so disappointed in this movie that I didn't want to watch climax