I think the Mission Impossible films get better the more frustrated Tom Cruise's character gets. When all the gadgets malfunction, when Benji misdirects him out a window without seeing how high it is, when Ethan has to improvise--that's when the movies are great. Final Reckoning doesn't have enough of that. It's mostly three hours of exposition laid over montages from the previous films. I couldn't believe how badly they bungled it.
You know, I hadn't thought about that, but you're right--those moments humanized Hunt as a character, and were necessary to the tone and energy of the movies. Good note!
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I think the Mission Impossible films get better the more frustrated Tom Cruise's character gets. When all the gadgets malfunction, when Benji misdirects him out a window without seeing how high it is, when Ethan has to improvise--that's when the movies are great. Final Reckoning doesn't have enough of that. It's mostly three hours of exposition laid over montages from the previous films. I couldn't believe how badly they bungled it.
You know, I hadn't thought about that, but you're right--those moments humanized Hunt as a character, and were necessary to the tone and energy of the movies. Good note!