FuzzyTagz
If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
cmayerle-41064
Probably because the other MIs were so good (except for 3, which was just awful), this movie seemed like it was rehashing old ideas and trying to tie up too many loose ends from the whole franchise. Sometimes it's better just to let characters and old plot lines fade into memory.Not that Alec Baldwin was a bad choice to play the bureaucrat, but McQuarrie went too far in trying to make him a badass fighter. Ving Rhames, at times, just seemed like he was trying to get over with his scenes. Pegg and Monaghan overacted while Cavill tried too hard to underact his role as superspy colossus. Vanessa Kirby made a great addition as the White Widow and pretty much stole every scene she was in. Angela Bassett, likewise, makes a much better hardened bureaucrat than Alec Baldwin. And Tom Cruise was Tom Cruise (not an insult or compliment, you either like him or not).
troestrup
I was very fortunate to see this movie at a discounted ticket price for only about 8 bucks, which in this case was an extremely good deal, since it would have been very much worth the normal price of 16 bucks (yes, tickets are usually expensive in Denmark).Tom Cruise has once again found a new way to fascinate and amaze us with the same, good old, intriguing spy story, we all love.Now, because of the standard format of this movie, which has been the template for all the MI movies over the years, I nearly rated it 8 only. But after watching and reading some of the "Behind the scenes" features, which is actually just as exhilarating and entertaining as the movie itself, I realized that the the three latest MI movies simply are on a whole new, advanced level:Not only do we get to see a lot of cool action scenes, ie. car chases, well-choreographed fist fights and the usual bomb defusing scene, which you should expect from a MI movie, but because of the fact that we know about Mr. Cruise´s aversion towards a green screen, this movie reaches entirely new heights.Just now, it is dawning on me, how much more effort and real life heroism went into making the later MI movies over the older ones.To bring this short review down to earth again, I can only submit it with the following statement: Tom Cruise´s movie career, like his looks, ages like fine wine. It simply gets better each time, which absolutely amazes me. What a unique actor indeed. However, of course I should not forget to mention the great job all the co-stars also do, because one man shouldn´t steal the focus for an entire movie, but since Tom + director, crew, countless instructors and stunt choreographers have put so much off-screen effort into it, I am going to make an exception in order to really highlight the hundreds and hundreds of hours of practise and preparation, which we don´t see. Because it seems to me that, in the case of Tom Cruise and his MI movies, the billable hours might just be much more numerous than most other movies.
iamkcutepoisonx
Great film. Another epic from Tom Cruise. Stunts were amazing. Loved the chemistry among Ethan, Julia & Ilsa. Everyone did amazing job. Story of Cavill as Walker - worth having that moustache.
