Just saw it. Ignore any negative reviews. Another great MI.

Aggies76 said:

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Buckle up!

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Welp. Thst as fun. A lot going on. Over to spoiler thread.

Wife and I saw it on IMAX last night! We loved it!!!

I'm a simple guy, yes, but I thought it was a **** show. They could have cut 45 minutes out and not lost a thing. The dialog was shallow and often times cheesey. It didn't flow well, especially the first 30 minutes.

Wait until it comes out on Netflix.

Eta, it was also woke. Female black prez, shrieking white male subordinates, female air craft carrier commander, black sub captain (I did like his character though), bad ass female seal team member, etc.

So a black guy can't be a captain, and there are no female badasses in the military? That's "woke"?

In a series that's had female spies come to Ethan Hunt's rescue since 1996?

OK.

Yeah, that's dumb. One of those white subordinates gets a hero moment and most of the good guys trying to save the world are white. Don't fear the woke boogeyman, people.

20ag07 said:

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So a black guy can't be a captain, and there are no female badasses in the military? That's "woke"?

In a series that's had female spies come to Ethan Hunt's rescue since 1996?

OK.

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Strawmen.

Logos Stick said:

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I'm a simple guy, yes, but I thought it was a **** show. They could have cut 45 minutes out and not lost a thing. The dialog was shallow and often times cheesey. It didn't flow well, especially the first 30 minutes.

Wait until it comes out on Netflix.

Eta, it was also woke. Female black prez, shrieking white male subordinates, female air craft carrier commander, black sub captain (I did like his character though), bad ass female seal team member, etc.

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Conservatives support qualified people regardless of sex or race

And the President and the captains were awesome - nothing like that awful woman commander in Star Wars - THAT was woke

There was no woke dialog or policy - yours is a bad take

Good lord, shut up

Tobias Funke said:

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Good lord, shut up

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If you can't have fun with this movie, or think it's genuinely bad, I don't know what to tell you, other than you're probably joyless inside and might want to ask your few remaining friends if you're rough a hang because, if they're honest, they'll probably say yes.

I'm kidding.

Kind of.

Is it the worst of the McQuarrie M:I movies? Yes. Do they spend WAY too much time recapping the last movie, regurgitating the stakes, over-explaining the plot, and dialing Ethan's savior complex up to 11, without the winking nature of the last few entires? No doubt. But none of that detracts from the sheer exhilaration of the second half, never mind that the first half isn't even that bad to begin with. Sure, it's a little sloppy, needlessly confusing at times, and overly nostalgic. Overall, though, this movie is a ton of fun, more emotional than it has any right to be, genuinely awe-inspiring on multiple occasions, and features two of the greatest action sequences ever put to film. To the point where our audience broke out into enthusiastic pause the second the end credits came up.

In other words, sure it's flawed, but also absolutely worth the price of admission and I'd watch it again in a heartbeat.

I didn't see those roles as woke. The sub commander was probably the best character after the primary cast. He was great. I will admit that I had a thought upon seeing the woman captain of the GHW Bush that harkened back to a time when DEI was not a known thing but was likely something being promoted under a different name, 1994's Clear and Present Danger.

They took a gruff old white Coast Guard captain from Clancy's book and made him a young white female. The actress didn't look like she could have possibly attained such a position in a military organization. The gal in MI:FR was more age appropriate and didn't come across as some DEI hack.

Logos Stick said:

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I'm a simple guy, yes, but I thought it was a **** show. They could have cut 45 minutes out and not lost a thing. The dialog was shallow and often times cheesey. It didn't flow well, especially the first 30 minutes.

Wait until it comes out on Netflix.

Eta, it was also woke. Female black prez, shrieking white male subordinates, female air craft carrier commander, black sub captain (I did like his character though), bad ass female seal team member, etc.

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A black man and a woman as military leaders is too much for you? Okay, grandpa.

Logos Stick said:

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I'm a simple guy, yes, but I thought it was a **** show. They could have cut 45 minutes out and not lost a thing. The dialog was shallow and often times cheesey. It didn't flow well, especially the first 30 minutes.

Wait until it comes out on Netflix.

Eta, it was also woke. Female black prez, shrieking white male subordinates, female air craft carrier commander, black sub captain (I did like his character though), bad ass female seal team member, etc.

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I know it took me completely out of the movie to believe that a former head of the CIA could ever be President.

I am one of the biggest Mission Impossible fans of all my friends and always the defender of a good romp regardless of any deficiencies.

This was awful. Things people love about MI:

1) great action and stunts: none in the first 2 hours
2) characters we know and care about: barely at play. For example we had as much or more of the Asian French girl who doesn't speak than we did Simon Pegg

In addition to the random addition of old characters, really bad Angela bassit, much of the plot just made no sense. It felt more like a new Bond (in a bad way) than anything else where they tried to make us care about a character for no reason.

Big thumbs down from a huge MI fan.

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Ol_Ag_02 said:

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Logos Stick said:

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I'm a simple guy, yes, but I thought it was a **** show. They could have cut 45 minutes out and not lost a thing. The dialog was shallow and often times cheesey. It didn't flow well, especially the first 30 minutes.

Wait until it comes out on Netflix.

Eta, it was also woke. Female black prez, shrieking white male subordinates, female air craft carrier commander, black sub captain (I did like his character though), bad ass female seal team member, etc.

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I know it took me completely out of the movie to believe that a former head of the CIA could ever be President.

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Bush 41 was CIA Director

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Another voice of reason about this film. It will not age well, everyone in this forum is high on the hype and "stunts".
I agree with TCTTS on 96% of his comments here, but he is dead wrong with his last comment.
TC- You literally take a whole paragraph admitting and outlining all the flaws with this film...and there are MANY reason to not like it. The next thing you say is "but, it's a fun time and you're dead inside if you didn't love it". I mean....come on, really?? The two BEST action scenes every put to film. Don't be ridiculous. That may be the craziest thing you've said in a long while. Great stunt- YES. How they filmed it- super impressive. Maybe the most daring and dangerous ever done, no doubt...but, neither of them were good scenes. You have to care and understand what's happening and have 'some' small doubt about how it will end for it to be a great action scene. You all are saying that you were on the edge of your seat. Why? Where was the suspense? Ethan Hunt has the thickest and most unbelievable plot armor of ANY character, EVER. Both scenes are basically meh mcguffins. Rolling subs on the ocean floor....bi-planes?? I mean, so silly. I still don't understand how or why there would be bi-planes sitting around...I even googled "are there still a lot of bi-planes in Africa" after I saw the movie. The answer is no. lol I have zero doubt that those two scenes were set before they even started a script. In a year, not one of you that liked this film will be able to remember or explain the plot of these last 2 MI's at all. They are both nonsensical money grabs.

For reference: films I have liked in 2025...

Top tier:
Sinners- will probably end up being the best of the year
Warfare- super tight and barebones script, great suspense and action, extremely well shot...among the 'realest' war films you'll see.

Big dropoff, but still more "fun" and enjoyable than MI8:
Companion, Mickey 17, Minecraft, and Black Bag

tbh, both Novocaine and Final Destination were also more fun and believable than MI.

I really hated this movie AND I'm happy and fun to be around. Go figure, Gig'em.

This film will age about as well as the other Mission Impossibles.

Nah.. just have fun and don't overthink it

Note - Gabriel said he had a plane waiting and even a backup plane just in case