Agreed.

Saw yesterday. INSANELY good. Only thing for me is Cavill. Yeah he's a handsome guy but a bit of a wooden actor. Not trying to really bag on him too much. Thats really the only gripe.

Most of the time when the bad guy is somewhat weak it brings the film down; but in Fallout, Lane was SO SO good.

Terrific film. Can't wait to own on 4K-UHD.

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The smart ass aspect makes sense for me because that's Cavill's way of acknowledging without acknowledging that he was unconscious during the skydive. If Cavill's serious, he's not acknowledging in any way that he was unconscious and then suddenly/miraculously awake on the roof of their target.

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Maybe he's serious because he's so arrogant. He knows he passed out but doesn't want to look weak in front of Ethan. He knows he passed out but has no clue he lost his oxygen.

Just got back. I enjoyed it, but I think I shouldn't have read any reviews before hand. My expectations were high, and weren't really met. Good movie. Not great. I thought the car chase was fantastic. Best part of the movie. I didn't understand the need for a halo jump into the Louve. Why not just take regular plane to France and then drive there?

MI3 and MI4 tonight.

MI3 was better than I remember. A really great more intellectual villain in Phillip Seymour Hoffman, the introduction of a love interest and it's complications, and some solid action sequences with the added personal drama makes for a really engaging film.

Ghost Protcol on now and I sometimes forget just how damn good this film is. It might even rival Fallout for sheer quality of action sequences, consider
(SPOILERS BUT YOU REALLY SHOULD HAVE SEEN THIS BY NOW):

- the prologue chase sequence in Budapest
- the Russian prison escape
- the Kremlin infiltration and projection screen sequence
- the Russian hospital escape
- the Dubai climb
- the Dubai switcheroo and hotel fight
- the Dubai sand chase
- the Brandt twist
- the Mumbai party sequence/satellite rover
- the car park fight/satellite disarm
- the Julia reveal

Just ridiculously engaging end to end.

Agree! Ghost Proticol needs more love.. the car park scene was awesome.. never seen that before and totally perfect ending

5 was even better and 6 was even better but those 3 are all time bests! (And 3 not far behind)

i'm not sure what they'll do next to try and "one up" the stunts from fallout, but i feel reasonably certain we're going to see tom cruise strapped to a rocket and launched into space at some point in the next 10 years

I watched it last night and haven't ready through this film.

First off - Christopher McQuarrie is an action genius, and I can't wait to see what he does next. I've said this about MI:Rogue Nation, and it holds true to this film, too, but the ability to not follow the standard talking scene progressing plot and building up to a big action set piece, but instead relying on the action set pieces to progress the plot is something that doesn't shine as brightly in any other film franchise.




****** Spoilers ahead... probably ******

The attention to detail really stood out in this movie, too, specifically with the sound editing/mixing in the chase scenes in Paris - there was a point where you can't see his hand, but Hunt pulls the hand brake, and it cuts to the exterior of the car drifting, and the whole sound of the brake getting pulled, wheels screeching, was so excellently done, only to be quickly followed by intense whoosh-whoosh sounds of the pillars passing by. Just perfectly executed. It's small, and maybe this was actually more of a fashion thing, but I liked how the suits weren't all bespoke - Cavil's suit was a bit b****, so was Rebecca Ferguson's. Ohh, and Cavil was a great villain, and Sean Harris' Solomon Lane continued to be this intense, yet still, evil presence. When they showed Cavil's face burnt a-la two-face, I was hoping that they were setting him up to be the villain in the next film. Ohh and the tracer fire! (I keep remembering little bits here and there)

Maybe the only thing, and I'll have to read through to see others' thoughts on this, but was the HALO into Paris necessary? I mean it's Paris... it's not Pyonyang. Either way, great stunt, was intense, and was pieced so well together.

There were three clear faints in the film that stuck with me too: the first being the Wolf Blitzer fake (which I'm sure most of us saw coming), the second being Hunt playing the kidnapping in Paris in his head where he has to kill a cop, and the third with the sun-setting that made it appear that the bombs went off. Those were a little annoying at first, not because I felt duped, but because the thought of what that movie would have been if those all happened was so intriguing. I want to see the three alternate timelines where those things did actually go bad. Particularly, the one where Hunt has to kill the cop - that scene was so excellently done, with only music playing and no sound effects where at first you're wondering why, and then you realize "ohh, Hunt is being complicit in cop-killing", and then it progresses to Hunt killing a cop himself and you realize how important of an editing/directorial choice it was to cut the sound effects. Can someone make a comic of that, and show how Hunt breaks down and becomes unraveled as a result?

That being said about the faints, they all served the purpose of highlighting that Hunt is the anti-Spock: he does not subscribe to "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." He's basically a Neo in the Architect scene.

In summation: Great movie. Will watch again.

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I didn't understand the need for a halo jump into the Louve. Why not just take regular plane to France and then drive there?

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Lots of people asked this, there was a serious time crunch to get there by midnight. Quickest way in was to fly over disguised as a commercial airliner and jump in.

I would say that's preferable versus saying he traveled from Berlin to Paris via plane and then drove to the Grand Palais in whatever number of hours he had.

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There were three clear faints in the film that stuck with me too: the first being the Wolf Blitzer fake (which I'm sure most of us saw coming)

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Honestly? I didn't. I really thought they had gone way dark and it caught me totally off-guard. When Ethan says the "What's done is done when we say it's done" line and the MI theme kicked in, the awesomeness was exponentially better having felt that surprise.

Yep. As much as I loved the action, that was honestly my favorite moment of the movie - the reveal (fake Blitzer) + Cruise's line / theme kicks in. That got me SO amped.

Second favorite non-action moment was Cavill's character being duped by the Lane mask. It was so perfectly set up earlier in the movie when he mockingly said, "People actually fall for those things?" - and then he fell for it himself. Simple, but such a fantastically well-done and executed moment.

Anyone else immediately know the interrogation of Nils showing a nuclear blast wasn't real because it was on CNN? Someone yelled out "Fake News" when they had Wolf Blitzer talking about the nuclear detonations and the audience rolled when it turned out to be a set.

Ha, yeah, that probably wasn't the smartest play by CNN/Blitzer. To literally play right into the whole "fake news" thing.

Then again, I found this hilarious too...

That was an excellent action flick. Helicopter scene was intense along with Hunt on the motorcycle. I rarely make it to the theater but this one makes me want to go back and watch it again. Rebecca Ferguson is easy on the eyes, as well.