MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - FINAL RECKONING PART 2 , impressions after viewing. Not for the faint of heart .....

[AudioLibertarian]

This movie has got to be the MOST crappy and over-hyped flick in my recent memory! Especially, the first hour ( that after having to endure 30 minutes of ads for future crap) almost made myself and wife nauseous from the primitiveness of script and lousy acting, not to mention other moments which I won't go into due to the regressive socio political developments that have been happening in Hollywood last 20 years...... This was the biggest waste of 3 hours of my life and almost $50 for two, in my recent memory. I would not watch this movie even it was free !!!!!

I wonder if its director , who has done some very good flicks in the past, was actually able to stomach watching this film from the beginning to the end. I thought the second MI in the series was bad , that flick's only noteworthy moment was Tom Cruise's new hair style (as per Siskel & Ebert)..... I hope they get a new director & script writers and shoot something far suitable to end this overall a very good franchise.
To add insult to the injury the movie is getting 80% positive reviews on major (corporate owned) review sites, which is even more disgusting!

My guess is, either the modern day Hollywood and most of the corporate world holds the viewing public in such a low esteem "intelligence" wise, (whether rightfully, or not is a different point) that this abomination of an "art form" is passing as something remarkable, or the Hollywood has degenerated to a point of no return talent wise, or a combo of thereof.....

@bonzo75 made comparative references to the Bollywood for the Part 1, I d say the Part 2 is between high budget, "well-made" Chinese Commie Propaganda "Sci-fi & Fantasy" films (which I presume would be plenty of fun if one had smoked good Sativa oil) and "films" produced by the North Korean film industry, and those are something else indeed .

Sad!

 

[SOS]

Thanks....I think you just saved me 3 hrs of my life !

 

[Steve williams]

Any comments about the stunts done by Cruise. He certainly has brass cajones

 

[Mobiusman]

This movie should be called Movie Impossible Because it needs to be redone

I needed to get out of the house after being house bound for 5 months recovering from a knee injury and thought going to see Mission Impossible Final Reckoning in IMAX and at my local IMAX theater where they just upgraded their already wonderful sound and I like the MI franchise.

I know this theater well and my favorite seat (dead center R/L and top to bottom) was available so I went to see what the latest offering from Cruise & McQuarrie. When the reviews came out, they were all essentially mixed, saying you tolerate the first hour and then the typical MI delivery manifested, AND then the predicable MI experience took over.

Well, my experience was not even close to what I anticipated!!! The sound was far and away the best I ever experienced and being a life long high end audiophile I have high standards. Even though the pre-feature trailers were amazing due to amazing sound movie and had some of the best the cinematography I have ever seen, I left the theater feeling I had just watched a movie with so much potential strike out!!!! In fact, I did something I never do-calling some friends to tell them to wait until it comes to Netflix.

As a shrink who has worked in the movie industry, I felt the need to figure out what going on, and it was easy to see their mistake—-they forgot that this type of movie has to provide some positive emotional return for viewers, rather than creating frustration because there were so many amazing stunts It is a shame since so much talent, money and effort went into creating this mess of a movie.

If they could create a V2 version with the simple transition fixes, I would go see it within 24 hours of release, because that would be a wonderful action flick, but I am dreaming.

 

[AudioLibertarian]

Any comments about the stunts done by Cruise. He certainly has brass cajones

Stunts with Tom Cruise at the end were superb, however as for the movie itself you have to judge for yourself.

 

[AudioLibertarian]

Overall WAAAAAY below the quality of the MI 1, 3,4, 5! Imho of course.

 

[bonzo75]

Overall WAAAAAY below the quality of the MI 1, 3,4, 5! Imho of course.

And I didn’t like any of them either

 

[AudioLibertarian]

And I didn’t like any of them either

At least the Kremlin was blown up in one of them

 

[Joe Whip]

The last film was too long and at 3 hours, so is this one. I will go see it but if you can’t tell your story in at most 2 and a half hours, you need to cut. Seems like recapping the prior films in the first hour was-a poor decision. The filmmaker should assume the fans of this franchise know that content already.

 

[PeterA]

It seems that all the hype about Tom Cruise‘s ability to do his own stunts at age 63 is simply a distraction. I could care less about who does the stunts if the movie is not engaging.

 

[Ron Resnick]

I remember thinking that the last MI one was not very engaging. I felt the last one was mainly a series of plot set-ups just to highlight the stunts -- that admittedly amazing motorcycle jump. (Was a motorcycle jump and parachute down really the only way to rendezvous with that train?)

I thought the most engaging part of the last MI was the sequence on the train car when it falls off the mountain or something. I thought this was more exciting than the motorcycle jump.

It seemed like the motorcycle jump would have been marketed more honestly as an Evil Knievel style discrete stunt or something. That's what it felt like to me. But as the main feature of the movie I found it anti-climatic, especially since we all saw clips of the preparation for the jump like 37 times before we actually watched the movie.

 

[PeterA]

I have not seen this latest film, but these fantastical stunts make it look like a Marvel comic movie. Bring back believable action, good acting and great story lines. I guess the 12 year old boys like this kind of stuff.

 

[still-one]

These are "check your brain at the door" movies.

 

[DasguteOhr]

I liked the first part, but part 2 is unworthy of a good Mission: Impossible film. You expect more from the finale, unexpected twists where you wouldn't expect them. Too much cyber stuff, not much good action. What really shocked me was how the actors have aged in two years, or were they digitally altered two years ago? Who knows.