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That made me smile. Very cool.
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Almost all of the say.
That was very cool! :-bd
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I'm sure Christopher Nolan, Tarantino, Jordan Peele or any other number of hot directors would like to work with him.
It’s a brilliant film, but it does seem like a one-shot idea: how will they do a sequel?
That's why I was happy to recently see him in something like American Made. Something different from his bread and butter action roles.
It´s about time jumps, so who cares about the gap ;-)?
Well, that´s easy: Didn´t get the two protagonists exposed to the alien creature´s blood or something? So, now, with their alien-altered DNA, their having their baby, and try to imagine what that little bastard will be like ;-).
In fact, it feels like a very conscious choice by McQuarrie to channel his inner Christopher Nolan and make a darker, more dour and grim film. Which I personally love. I think Rob Hardy's visuals are stunning. I adore that crisp winter-sun aesthetic:
Henry Cavill's performance was better than I remembered. But the action scenes are jaw-dropping. Tom Cruise is still the best 'visual effect' in the business. The third act is unbelievably engrossing and an example of cinema in its purest form. The helicopter stunts and the final fight are some of the best staged action sequences in modern filmmaking.
Paris and London are also stellar. There are a lot of smaller grace notes in the film that are overlooked, such as the moment with the female police officer and the coquettish scenes with White Widow.
But there is no denying that the plot is convoluted and confusing. There are way too many characters and the film is about as deep as a puddle. I spent most of the time (even on my second viewing) confused and a little lost. McQuarrie's script is laden was dodgy exposition.
Despite being a very 'empty calories' film, it has a grim and portenous tone which is seemingly saying 'take me seriously.' Which is kinda difficult to do.
The real trick would have been to place the focus on Ethan and Ilsa. They are the most interesting characters.
McQuarrie really needs a writer. He can clearly film action and can do plot. But he needs sometime to make his ideas more concise. Nonetheless, Fallout is one of the best action films ever. I mean, it has real action. This film is a seriously unbelievable feat in many technical respects.
Ethan Hunt rocks. I LOVE these films!
Excellent review!
But did it much better. 😉
Please, someone has to show that to the real Tom Cruise. :))
I'm impressed he does that all in one shot and is running at a decent speed!
There's another Cruise impressionist (they did that deepfake video with him a couple of months ago) who's really good though: he literally sounds exactly the same to me! :) Is he called 'Not Tom Cruise'?
Tom Cruise reacting to "Tom Cruise" reacting to "Tom Cruise."
I don't think it's that Hollywood isn't interested in those sorts of films anymore. Think it's more a combination of those sorts of films not being able to afford him (and him not willing to lower his salary for them I guess) and him genuinely just really enjoying doing action films. He is basically as much of a stuntman as he is an actor now and he seems to love it, plus it's given him a real career renaissance, he's a lot more popular again now after a few years where people seemed to be going off him.
It is sort of a mini trend I've noticed with actors. They get to a certain age and decide to do action films because it's fun. Liam Neeson was never an action star until Taken but now that's pretty much all he does. Colin Firth got to his 50s before Kingsman came along. It is interesting. I guess when you start out you really want to be recognised for your talent and get awards and credibility and all that, and would be worried about that sort of work damaging that rep, but as you get older and more comfortable you decide to want to have fun and indulge your childhood playground fantasies a bit. After all, if you wanted to act since you were a kid, it wouldn't have been because of a film like Rain Man or Schindler's List at first would it. It would have been because you wanted to be Bond or Arnie or whoever else.
You can probably apply the same to John Hurt being Doctor Who or thespians like Ian Mckellen and Patrick Stewart doing blockbusters. Once they've been recognised and got that respect and credibility they probably loosen up a bit and decide to take more roles for the fun of them.
I think that's awesome you are sharing your interests with your daughter. While mine doesn't get into Bond, we've shared the fun of the MI films. A special memory is going to see GP while it was still in the cinema as a chance to escape the emotional distress of my dad being in hospice for a couple of hours. When Hunt says "Light the fuse" leading to the credits it just transported me to a different world, which was welcome at that time.
We've since gone to RN and Fallout with her fiancé. I'm hoping we can all go to the next chapters in the upcoming years.