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Besides the action scenes, my favorite part of this movie is Henry Czerny as Kittridge. Pretty much steals every scene he's in. The way he enunciates his words; he sounds like a sinister airline pilot. Haha.
+Good Clip Hahaha that's an unbelievably perfect description! I couldn't agree more about Henry as well.
ColdCutz "I want him manning a radar tower in Alaska by the end of the day. Just mail him his clothes." Haha, awesome line and delivery. There's also something amusing in the way he condescends to Barnes all the time. I didn't think anyone could talk to Dale Dye that way. Wish they would bring Kittridge back for a sequel.
Henry Czerny was great in Clear and Present Danger, another mid-1990s espionage thriller
David Curry A GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD
"if you want to shake hands with the devil that's fine with me I just want to make sure you do it in hell!"
As a child I was for whatever reason really spooked out by the beginning where all the characters get killed. Watching the film again I was really surprised by how haunting some of those scenes still are, with all the fog and good lighting. Brian De Palma really knows his shit when it comes to visuals.
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Gotta respect the amount of effort and research you put into these reviews!
hes amazing, best film account on yt, cheers to Oliver!
My voice may sound a bit more echoey than normal. The past week I've been house sitting a friends place. Their house used to be a chapel and all the rooms have large ceilings so the acoustics were a bit off.
Oliver Harper Hey Oliver, what do you think of the film Mullholand Drive and do you like the surrealist genre?
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Oliver Harper Hey Harper, what's the possibility of the following films getting covered:
Face/Off
Anaconda
Titanic
Good Will Hunting
Jackie Brown
Oliver Harper do you think you could review X men( 2000 film)?
You should have reviewed a horror at the time.
I'm going to see "MI: Fallout" tomorrow. I can't believe the series has been going strong for this long.
FALLOUT WAS AMAAZING
@@lukeschroter9389 yes
@@muhammadhilmiramadhan3556 Ghost protocol boring? What?
This movie sounds like it would be amazing now.
Definitely ahead of it's time.
For me it is the best MI of all Movies.
Agree totally. Feels like a team movie rather than just an Ethan Hunt movie. All the set-ups were great & direction was masterful. With each entry & in particular Rogue Nation onwards it has become more of a stunt/action oriented franchise rather than this intricate group adventure, which I particularly liked. So, the first movie is my favourite of all MI movies.
It’s is a crime, and such a shame this channel hasn’t exploded into stardom...it is now one of my top 5 channels...I truly love it sir! Thank you
The opening minutes of your retrospectives are better than most trailers.
I always wait to see how the intro is done to decide if I am going to stick around and watch the rest of the vid. I usually almost always hit like as the intro is done and watching the whole video as his outro is also fantastic. Feels like bookends that tell you the movie in a new way and giving just enough to want to watch it again or for the first time. Really well done videos.
Haven't watched this movie in nearly twenty years, and you've convinced me to check it out again Ollie. Well done!
Oliver, brilliant as always. Totally agree. The original will always be the best. De Palma is just amazing with artistic cinematography & camera work. It's modern day Hitchcock with him & always builds subtle suspense, without it looking too explosive & chaotic. I did like Rogue Nation though, because it seemed to go back to the original spy look. I await your Alien review.
+PAUL JAFFA
For me, it is Brian DePalmas Indiana Jones movie. To bad he didn't direct the other ones as well.
Not a fan of De Palma but this one is fine.
I think the last two MI has been really good action movies!
Old comments I know....
Having grown up a huge fan of this TV series, I was online to see the day it opened. Sadly, I could not bring myself to accept that Jim Phelps would turn traitor and that KILLED the film for me. I did not return to this franchise until Ghost Prtotocol.
glad to see someone with the same view as myself.
Just made a post before I saw your own comment.
Why destory established characters? Jim Phelps.. the original Jake Skywalker.
I wonder why Emilio Estevez never got screen credit for this film?
IDK but his death still gets to me 😖
EMILIO
EMILIO
Mighty Ducks guy, I swear to God.
Think it was like a returning the favour cameo, because cruise was uncredited in emelios film, young guns.
@@MrCharliesay ah, gotcha! Good point!
Great one, Oliver. I love the first Mission Impossible. The sequels have been okay, but Rogue Nation was better than the first movie or any of the sequels in my opinion, which I don't lightly. It was the culmination of everything good about sequels mixed heavily with most everything that was good about the original. Loved the retrospective! Much love! Much appreciation!
Update: The soundtrack is getting an expanded and re-mastered re-release! In the words of Stimpy: "SCREAM LIKE A GIRL!".
It kills me how many movie plots revolve around lists of covert assets being compromised. Speaking as an intelligence officer we don't really has lists floating about... Good movie but silly premise.
'Plenty of doves' Shows pigeons.
Made me chuckle.
Above all the MI franchise has proven how absolutely adept Cruise is as a producer, how completely he understand his own limitations, his strengths and his image. The fact that such a hoary formula is still going very strong indeed (has survived and outlasted Damon's Bourne and Craig's Bond) show's how well he grasps his audience.
By the time the next Cold War starts (if it hasn't started already) the MI franchise will be totally fashionable again.
Survived and outlasted Craig's Bond?. What?. You can just say you prefer the MI films to the Bond films but outlasting isn't the right term for what you're trying to say.
Craig's Bond is still going. Well until get gets killed off in No Time To Die and has a kid in it too!! The lefty cucks have finally de-manned 007 and about to kill the franchise.
I did a video on it at my channel The James Bond Show, if you or anyone cares to come TAKE a look 😊
I hate Craig's Bond as much as he does and even Sam Mendes can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Bond has been laughably obsolete for decades. The hero of sixty-year-old littler Englander wobblebottoms.
Another stellar video Oliver.. Keep up the good work..
+paul Z Thanks Paul!
Please do mr and Mrs smith 2005 movie.
Excellent review. You always deliver. The first film is my favorite as well, but I do believe that turning Phelps into the bad guy was wrong. When I first saw the movie I expected Jim would would be revealed as an impostor, but no such luck. They really put the TV show to bed with that move.
My folks felt the same as they were fans of the TV series. If I was invested in the original series I bet i would have felt the same when Phelps turned out to be the bad guy.
@@redkommie80 just imagine if someone turned Kirk or Spock into a badguy in a Star Trek and imagine the amount backlash that would get
@@Elementa2006 oh i would be passed. Reninds me of a reboot G.I. Joe comic from over 15 years ago. They made Duke a bad guy working for Cobra. Hated it.
So I knew how they felt.
@@redkommie80 Seriously? How? Why? First they try to kill him in the 80s movie and then that and actually gets killed in one of the live action GI Joe films. Poor Duke.
@@Elementa2006 G.I. Joe reloaded. By Devil's Due comics (I think). Took a modern/updated look and telling. Snake Eyes was related to Storm Shadow (cousins i think) who wasn't in it much, as he was also a former agent of Cobra who would be the Steps in to save the day thing. Doc was a woman.. though that didn't bother me as much. I think they wanted a small team, and while I was sure Scarlet had a big part, I couldn't remember if they had any other female characters outside of Baroness (edit here)
But yeah, I think it ran less than 20 issues cause of the backlash to turning Duke.
Yeah, he always getting a raw deal.
My mom was a huge fan of the original 60's series, and then the remake. She never forgave this movie for ruining the Jim Phelps character.
Oddly enough, I'm a fan of both MI 1 and 2, but I just don't like Abram's poor storytelling style. I mean, ANOTHER MI traitor? I can totally understand why they shut down the MI program in the forth movie, it had more moles and traitors then 24's CTU.
Mission: Impossible II didn't feel like a Mission: Impossible film at all, but more of the lines of a James Bond film from the Brosnan era and since that is considered to be one of the weaker eras of that franchise, that is saying something.
For me personally, I loved the second movie as much as the first. Granted, the second movie didn't have much of a plot. But the action scenes did create a sense of tension. The main issue I have, is the overuse of slow motion. Those slow motions scenes, where Tom and Thandie's characters are gazing into each other eyes were hilarious.
For me, the weakest was the 3rd movie. Mainly because it just seemed to be a fan service reboot. And the whole idea of the Rabit's Foot, was annoying. Hoffman's part, however, was outstanding.
Ghost protocol was awesome! Larry Bird is a brilliant director. The actions scenes were amazing, and weren't over the top at all. The humour was the perfect amount. It is hilariously ironic, how much he paid homage to the movie series in The Incredibles, and ended up directing one.
Justin McVicar Larry Bird? NBA on the brain?
2 WAS THE WORST!!!! The motorcycle duel smh...
I guess I'm too big a fan of the show to accept Phelps as the bad guy. It turned me off and ruined the viewing experience for me. IMHO, one of the cheapest plot twists in cinema history.
It's a hugely fascinating series. MI1 is a lot like the tv series, MI2 is absurdly overstylized, MI3 is super serious but introduced the best iteration, and 4-6 are beautiful blends of all three. Fallout was a masterpiece of time-ticking fun.
Another fantastic retrospective Oliver Harper .
Luckly for me, I tend to agree on all the more personal opinions that seep through your reviews, which makes your retrospectives all the more enjoyable to listen to. Plus, being probably the same age as you, I can often relate to many similar experiences of when certain movies and games came out.
I still have Mission Impossible for N64 and what a let down that game was!
"thanx to J.J. Abrams"... I never thought I'd hear that. Usually Abrams is the Grim Reaper, he kills franchises not help it
My god, you have perfected the retrospective review into its own art form. Bravo.
Πολυ ενδιαφερον αφιερωμα,σχετικα με μια απο τις καλυτερες ταινιες του σκηνοθετη Μπραιαν Ντε Παλμα,η"Επικυνδινη Αποστολη"του 1996,με τον Τομ Κρουζ,σε μια απο τις καλυτερες του ερμηνειες,βασισμενη στην ομωνυμη σειρα κατασκοπειας της δεκαετιας του 60.Παρολου που ακολουθησαν αλλες...5 συνεχειες σε οτι αφορα την ταινια του Ντε Παλμα,η πρωτοτυπη παντοντε θα παραμενει η καλυτερη...
Based on sales adjusted for inflation, the first movie is still the most successful. All of the sequels, continue to decline in ticket sales. Part of that is over saturation of the market and also the theater business in general.
I think all the mission impossibles are great , Cruise is a hell of a actor
I think you're exactly right about Tom Cruise - even when he's putting in a great performance, it's still just Tom Cruise. He's made such a name of himself (negatively as much as positively with his maniac period and Scientology) that people only see the actor. For example I love War of the Worlds, but Cruise is such a big name that it was difficult to get invested in his character. Many actors have fallen into the pattern of being so huge it doesn't really matter what film they're in - such as Cruise, Will Smith, and Nicole Kidman among others. Other, better actors can cut through their star-name pull and actually show their true acting ability (George Clooney has been in this bracket for a number of years by carefully choosing what he's in).
MI2 made me feel embarrassed
Love this movie but Phelps would NEVER betray the IMF.
Love M:I 2. Hated 3. 1 ok. 4-5 are excellent with Brad Bird.
Was that Emilio Estevez line, *Hasta lasagna, don't get any on y'ah* improvised?
I always liked the first one the most. Brian De Palma is a great director. He was always great at creating atmosphere and suspense. And I always felt cheated by not been able to see the love scene between Cruise and Emmanuelle Béart. It would be terrific if they could realease a longer version on DVD or Blu-Ray.
JD SANTIBÁÑEZ The blu-ray release would've benefited from having the deleted scenes, its pretty slim on extras.
Those French boobs are worth atleast 2 thumbs up
I'm glad they didn't show it! I would have flipped out in a fit of jealous rage!
Mission: Impossible II & Rogue Nation are my favorites of the series so far. I'm very interested in seeing what "M:I - Fallout" brings to the franchise.
It brings in Superman
@@falkenvir It was pretty rad lol. Can't wait for M:I VII and VIII.
This is by far the best TH-cam page, keep up the great work Oliver Harper
Truth be told, the first Mission Impossible film is my second favourite of the series, with Ghost Protocol as my personal fave. It always irks me how often I see this film ranked just above M:I:2, when the quality difference between the two is enormous. Once again, great review, Oliver! :)
Superb movie.. another de Palma classic
The first one is still the best. Though Ghost Protocol and Fallout are awesome.
Could you please do Men In Black? It's such a great movie and a classic!
Ollie, Imma say this. Your ability to edit intros the way you do is amazing. You do it so well that I sometimes want to watch films I'm not particularly fond of just because of the way you highlight them. You should be doing this for a living man.
It's really one movie I love, I kept watching it over and over again growing up.
Brilliant film. Soundtrack is fantastic and that train sequence is still one of my favorites! I enjoy the sequels a lot (aside from MI2) but this one is special.
Stellar retrospective.
I was originally negative toward the film as I am a fan of the TV series. However, if I look at it as a stand alone thriller, it's quite good...excellent in fact. I thoroughly enjoyed all the MI films except MI 2.
My God that actor or actress taking up a poster needs to end
Mission Impossible seems to get better with each movie.
Will you ever get to James Bond sir?
Once again you deliver a great review to a great movie.
THANK YOU!!! Finally somebody who reveres this movie as much as I do!! And ESPECIALLY as it relates to the sequels. Nice job bro, great quality video. Subbed.
Just wish the first 3 Mission: Impossible movies would get 4K remasters and all the extras for Blu-ray or UHD Blu-ray. Seen all 5 M:I films in cinemas and a huge fan of the Original including 1980's TV show. Also the rumored 3 1/2 hour cut for Mission: Impossible 2.
NGL I actually like the N64 MI game just as much if not more than Goldeneye. I actually LIKED its focus on stealth and weird mix of mechanics even if as you said a bit clunky.
My favourite film of all the Mission: Impossible films is Mission: Impossible II. I still like Mission: Impossible 1996. Great movie. I disliked Mission: Impossible III and Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol. 3 and 4 really sucked.
One thing I can never figure out is did Claire actually kill Hannah? And did Claire only go along with Jim because he was her husband? It's obvious that she didn't won't to kill Ethan because she told her husband " don't Jim" when he pointed the gun at Ethan.
Great video Oliver. I always look forward to your next upload.
hm, Jack Ryan films with Harrison Ford also have that 90s vibe in terms of visuals and grounded story.
Oliver, plan on doing another Tom Cruise movie sometime? Might I suggest Interview with the Vampire or War of the Worlds?
As a huge fan of the original series, I was pretty unimpressed with the first Mission Impossible. I liked the other ones though.
very very good!I'm amazed at how so many times I completely agree with your opinion and review!
The Mission Impossible theme always reminds me of the classic 80's Carling Black Label tv advert with the squirrel.
We don’t talk enough about how odd this movie actually is in its production. Okay, Tom Cruise as star and producer. Makes sense. Adaptation of a semi-popular IP. Makes sense. The original main character “dies” early on and is also the villain? Okay… directed by Brian De Palma of Carrie and Blow Out? Also odd, but I suppose The Untouchables had come out, he can do action. Written by David Koepp (Jurassic Park), Steven Zaillian (Schindler’s List) and Robert Towne (Chinatown). Um, huh? And the main action set piece is a mostly silent scene in which Tom Cruise dangles from the ceiling on a wire. Like, what is this movie? And why is it the best Mission: Impossible?
Mission Inpossible is such a great film.I loved the villains' theme in MI:2. Definitely a John Woo film.MI:3 is my favorite. It was more of a team film and Philip Seymour Hoffman's villain is still unmatched in my opinion. Admittedly the film is missing something that the first film has.
I agree, oliver. The first is still the best, and it is because of the plot which is one of the best seen in a spy films. Part two is the weakest, I was very disappointed when I saw it. Other parts then were good entertainment, but far from the first plot. It is true that Tom Cruise's role in the film industry is already so iconic that he has become a man, who plays Cruise. But he is, however, really always a pleasure to watch. And can expect that there will be good entertainment.
Thank you again for the excellent job, Oliver.
I finally gave this one a full watch through in doing my franchise re-watch ahead of Dead Reckoning Part One, and it was very impressive. The 4K does a great amount of justice. It might feel a little 90's at times, but despite the conflicts on set, De Palma delivers the most paranoid thriller of the franchise. It does require tight attention to weave through the plot, and the point where Hunt is thinking one thing but saying another took a rewind to start grasping the filmmaking intentions there. So, maybe on a first watch it gets a little tangled, but it's truly a superb thriller with smart sequences and clever storytelling to make it feel like a noir espionage mystery. I need more De Palma in my life! I believe he did speak more in-depth in his "De Palma" documentary a few years ago about the problems on this film. I'll have to watch that full doc eventually.
Ghost Protocol is the best one
Your finally paragraph sums it all up. This first "bland" movie is much closer to the series, and that´s why it´s so good.. (For me at least!) Keep up the good work, Oliver!
My favorite movie of all time. So many twists and turns, great action, and perfect pacing and directing.
Good movie, but the original tv show is brilliant. Sure it didn't even have a third of the budget of the Tom Cruise movies, but it made up for it with amazing intricate plots and a really strong cast -- particularly in the first three seasons. The series was created by a real ex-intelligence agent, so it revolved around mind game operations "brains over brawn" which is the polar opposite of the movies... with the 1996 movie being an exception in some ways.
MI one and four for the win.
Simon Pegg wasn't the original casting choice for MI:III. Ricky Gervais had been cast for the role due to him just hitting it big in the US and coming to the attention of Cruise. Because of significant delays due to script problems Gervais dropped out, along with Kenneth Branagh, Carrie-Anne Moss, Scarlett Johansson, and director Joe Carnahan.
Now that would've been an interesting film, but nevertheless a very lucky break for Pegg.
I kinda like MI2. It’s just John Woo distilled, and it didn’t bore me in the slightest. J.J. Abrams is a terrible director imo, and I always hated the casting of Simon Pegg. He’s just there for bathos - not clever wit. Phillip S. Hoffman is incredible, though. What a giant he was. Rip.
I feel these MI franchies should also be have been named as BOND sequels,,because thrse also deal with mystery ,thrill,action,,suspense criminal activities of villians& cracking them by EthunHunt ( cruise) with tram's help ,Bond does with police & militaries of different nations..
i watched it, and haven't watched another in the franchise.
It was a good film BUT, it's funny how all those who complain about the destruction of the character of Luke Skywalker in the sequel Star Wars films never said a peep about how this film sh*ts all over the character of Jim Phelps.
Jim Phelps who was 100% loyal to his team, and they were to him.
In one episode one of the team is captured, and he develops an off the cuff plan to rescue her, which the rest of the team had faith in.
He was late arriving at an off-mission get together, and out of concern the team tracked him down, and developed plan to rescue him.
Heck.. he even came out of retirement to put together a team after his friend and protégé was killed.
Sorry, but making Jim Phelps the villain was an unnecessary twist of expectations. [They could have had a different set up, where Jim was a double-double agent, and at the end he gets seriously injured, forcing him to retire, and Nathan Hunt 'fiddles' the bad guy computer to sequester funds to a black list account that Jim could then access.
Instead they went for character assassination.
What next, George Smiley turning out to be actual control of Gerald????
as I said, if it hadn't been Mission: Impossible I'd have no qualms. if Jim Phelps had been a different character, no problem. But for me personally, what they did killed the concept for me.
And please, this is my PERSONAL view and fully appreciate that others think changing the tone of an established franchise is acceptable, just allow me to prefer consistency in what I enjoy.
MI2 is considered the worst in the series? REALLY? Humm, honestly that's the one I liked the best. But perhaps that's because that's when I was riding motorcycles a lot & was influenced by the Hans Zimmer score & all of those 'evil 2 wheel death machines' & seeing all of that on the big screen was an exciting thing- lol. I have fond memories of MI2-
Could you retrospect, "The Land Before Time?"
YESS! @Oliver Harper that would be brilliant!
I’ve always enjoyed Hong Kong movies, and liked MI2 more than MI3 at the time. Could the reaction to MI2 simply be different attitudes to cinema in the west? No HK director has been more than a few-films successful in Hollywood, have they?
I never got into the Mission Impossible films until Ghost Protocol, the first three films didn't do it for me but the current films since GP have been great and fully captured what gave the show its identity, the "team dynamic", which has been less emphasized in the earlier films especially 2 that it became more about Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt instead of the IMF team.
The first film isn't bad but that moment when they turned the Jim Phelps character from the TV series into a villain was unnecessary, they could have used a different character but instead they decided to spit in the face of fans of the TV series who were excited for a MI movie. You might be thinking that I'm taking this too seriously, well imagine if they made a Star Trek movie and they revealed that Kirk or Spock was the villain in order to push the character created for the movie as the main star of the franchise, yeah I doubt people would give him a pass and don't me the "but nobody care about the MI TV show", well people cared enough to attempt an 80's revival series and an actual movie based on the show. Seriously if the original actor who played the character felt this was the betrayal of the character then that should be a sign that this was a bad idea that's even worse than some fanfiction.
Personally, my headcanon is that this Jim Phelps wasn't the same Phelps but possibly a replacement using his name as a codename or the films take place in a separate continuity from the show.
Kitteridge's mole hunt works thank to Ethan
" Morning Mr. Phelps."
Brilliant Movie
Great review as always, the only thing I disagree is that I love more the sequels from 3 to 5 (Ghost Protocol been my favorite of all) way more than this film, I kinda hate this one as a kid because the same reasons of the actors and fans of the old show, the treatment of Jim Phelps make me hate this movie the first time I watched and the complicate plot was too much for my little mind back them, I watched then again more grow up and I enjoy it way better, able to see all the details in the big plot and I realize how great this movie really was, I still today like this film a lot, but it's not nearly as fun as 3,4 or 5 in my humble opinion, anyway still agree with this review a lot, love the effort you always put in gain all the technical details of the production and reception of the film.
I am with you on the charm of the 1st movie. I was amazed back in 96 watching this on big screen. I watched the tv series after that and that feels totally different. I can however understand the show fans being annoyed with Jim Phelps being the bad guy. I also hated MI2 and loved MI3 mainly as that also operated as a team movie as opposed to Tom doing his magic. MI4 had one amazing scene in Dubai but I did not care for the bad guy. MI5 was better and MI6 was even better due to Cavill. But overall I am nostalgic for the 1st movie more than others. Nice Retrospective/Review.
I hated what Tom Cruise did with the first film by making Jim Phelps the bad guy. It's the equivalent of making Indiana Jones a Nazi or Captain Kirk a Klingon. It just shouldn't be done. It's very obvious why he did it. He took a well known spy property with name recognition and an awesome theme song and turned it into his own James Bond series. Which was all but confirmed with the sequel. M:I-2 is just a blatant ripoff of Bond and even steals a car chase from GoldenEye. After the 2nd film I was done with the franchise. Thankfully J.J. Abrams rescued the series and the last three films have all been excellent and redeemed the series in my eyes. Now if they could only retcon out Jim as a villain and restore his good name.
Excited for Dead Reckoning. Fallout was one of the best action movies in recent years. I didn't think they could top Rogue Nation but they did. Wouldn't put it past Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise to knock it out of the park again.
Wait, in the De Palma movie IMF is the International Monetary Fund. You know De Palma always political
Those aren't doves, they're pigeons.
When Cruise kicks the guy in the face on the beach he actually kicks him in the face. You can see Cruise going "Oh shit" at the end of the shot if you watch him.
Initially M:I-2 received better reviews than the first. Ebert said it was "much better than the first one" and critics like Mick LaSalle (who trashed the first one) and James Berardinelli gave it positive reviews.
The switch of directors and styles is one of the series's strengths. Cruise is someone who values what a director brings to films (having worked with many of the modern greats) and wants each of them to put their stamp on the film, unlike a MacDonald's francise of films like Marvel.
Surprised by this movie.
Looks so fresh in 2021 which you can't say about many of old movies., they tend to look kinda cringe but not this one.
And I'm nostalgic about the way they presented internet😂
Haven't watched this ep yet... but I hope you talk about him GUESSING an email address with SPACES in it
I think the main problem with M:I-2 is that John Woo doesn't direct sequals so he was given opportunity to direct it as a stand alone film called Mission: Impossible 2. And so it feels like it has nothing to do with the original movie. Stupid decision although John Woo made a good film. It just doesn't feel like a Mission: Impossible movie.
I had the n64 version of mission impossible
Didn't understand why the Russian embassy had a lower-level dungeon filled with acid pools and platforms.
And i've seen mission impossible 2 in theaters; lets, collectively, disavow this movie from the mission impossible franchise.
'Awful Limp biscuit version' - that was the best version of the tune and probably the best thing they ever made! It was much better without the lyrics though and really ought to have had a guitar solo (something which none of Limp Biscuit's stuff had).
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Mission Incomprehensible. Great movie, with stylish action set pieces, but a plot that took many rewatches to fully understand.
I shall forever condemn (and perhaps even curse) this film for its defamatory portrayal of Jim Phelps!!
{Another character could have been created from scratch - rather than desecrating a long-established one}
I would have love to seen SNES Mission Impossible.
I can believe it got cancelled
It would have been ages better than this mess we got.
I went to see the film at the cinema and I tend to agree with Martin Landau when he said that it was a great film but it's not Mission Impossible. It's as if they took a typical spy/action thriller and added just enough to make it look like it was a tie in to the original series but it doesn't feel anything like it to me.
For me the best movie version of the Mission Impossible tv series was Chris Nolan's Inception, which got the concept right and added a few layers but the foundation of it was very much akin to a Mission Impossible episode.
Yea, MI2 is utterly shit, still better than thise GOD AWFUL Star Wars prequels though 😉
I wish I could like these movies, I do, but I just cannot. The first was boring, the second was the same, third showed possibilities, but is still forgettable. Fourth...for all the set pieces, I just didn't care.
I was a fan of the TV show, even the rebooted series was fun. I just felt that the IMF team, in the first movie, would not have fallen for such an easy mole job, that they team do in the film.
People say Tom Cruise was too small to play Jack Reacher and Hugh Jackman was too tall to play Wolverine so imagine if they had swapped roles as in if Jack Reacher had come out at the same time as the First X-Men.
I'm sure there's an alternate reality where that happened.