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  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited May 13 Posts: 18,055
    Aha, there you go. That's great isn't it.



    Remember when they introduced a preview screening of Maverick with Tom on the planes from this film? And that came out three years ago, they've been making this forever.
  • bondywondybondywondy Uk
    edited May 13 Posts: 512
    So too F1 film!
    Filming for the Formula 1 (F1) movie, starring Brad Pitt, began in July 2023 at Silverstone Circuit

    Filming ended December 2024. It's out in June. F1 directed by Joseph Kosinski. He directed Top Gun Maverick.



  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 18,055
    Yeah, I guess with that one they had to wait two weeks every time they wanted to shoot a bit of race footage so I'll let them off that one! :D
  • bondywondybondywondy Uk
    Posts: 512
    mtm wrote: »
    Yeah, I guess with that one they had to wait two weeks every time they wanted to shoot a bit of race footage so I'll let them off that one! :D

    😂

    Good point!
  • patbpatb
    edited May 14 Posts: 4,732
    I watched the original on Monday and then DR last night. The contrast is huge in terms of what the core of the movies are. Possibly, because I'm an old git, I much prefer the older style of the original. A genuine plot with characters trying to outsmart each other and time for tension to build within a semi-reatistic centrol plot idea. DR, by contrast, is much longer but the plot is much simpler. Character developement is sacrificed for action scenes that , IMHO, are just too long. The original is a real gem...love it. I'm a big fan of McQ but, to be fair, De Palma is in a different league
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 18,055
    Review time:

    https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning/

    https://variety.com/2025/film/reviews/mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning-review-tom-cruise-1236396671/

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/may/14/mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning-review-tom-cruise-wildly-entertaining-adventure

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning-review-tom-cruise-christopher-mcquarrie-1236215149/

    https://www.ign.com/articles/mission-impossible-final-reckoning-review-tom-cruise

  • Jordo007Jordo007 Merseyside
    Posts: 2,777
    So excited to see this film. I'm going to watch 5,6 and 7 over the next few days before with the Mrs, before we see it next week.

    Have they brought the release day forwards? I thought it was the 21st May? My local cinemas have got screenings for Monday and Tuesday next week?
  • meshypushymeshypushy Ireland
    Posts: 182
    Massively looking forward to this after the misfire of DR and hoping to stay spoiler free before opening night. It has been a great run for the franchise since ‘96, with more consistently high quality output than Bond during the period.
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
    Posts: 15,402
    Just on my way to see TFR.
    Very excited to see how it pans out, hopefully an improvement on DR.

    Review to follow later.
  • Mendes4LyfeMendes4Lyfe The long road ahead
    Posts: 8,912
    Benny wrote: »
    Just on my way to see TFR.
    Very excited to see how it pans out, hopefully an improvement on DR.

    Review to follow later.

    Let us know what you think.
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
    Posts: 15,402
    As the film hasn't been released, worldwide yet I'll post the following as a spoiler.
    If you weren't a fan of Dead Reckoning, then I'm not sure you'll be a fan of The Final Reckoning. It's certainly not a bad film at all. The biggest problem it has, is the films length. You could cut 40-50 minutes from the run time, and I don't think it would make any difference. Some scenes go on for way longer than needed, and the scene itself could easily be shortened or eliminated altogether.
    A character reveal takes too long, with no real payoff.
    The biggest thing I took away from it, was how action light it was. That's not to say there aren't action scenes. But there are only two action set pieces of note. I'll come back to that later.
    The film feels quite closely shot, in one of the fight scenes Ethan is taking on a couple of brutes, but it's shot very close and at times from the perspective of another character.
    In older films in the series, these were shot so we could see Tom Cruise doing all the stunts and showing how incredibly fit he is. Don't get me wrong, Cruise is still awesome in the role. But it was a little thing I noted as being not quite up to the standards that we might be used to.
    Even though it can get quite convoluted at times, the story does at least make sense. There's a reason for what we're seeing. I think the biggest problem the film has, as I've said before is that it takes a longtime to get to that reason.
    The cast as before are all fine, with a couple of new characters brought in.
    The best inclusion for me being the return of William Donloe from the first movie. He's very cleverly brought back into the mix and does serve a purpose.
    The two action scenes of the film are the underwater scene where Ethan retrieves something from the sunken submarine established in DR. It's quite long and although exciting it didn't really work for me. It's just Ethan alone in a submarine facing hurdles of debris falling around and on him. The end of this sequence left me scratching my head.
    It's all set within the film beforehand what he intends to do, but after this part of the mission has been completed, I was left scratching my head as to what happened.
    The second and by far the better action scene is the aerial scenes with the biplanes.
    This sequence is truly jaw dropping. There were a couple of times I let out a 'F*ck me! in the cinema. I'd have to say it's the most amazing aerial action committed to celluloid.
    Cruise deserves full credit here, as it's clearly him performing these insane stunts. This 20 minute set piece is worth the admission alone. But to be fair, the film as a whole is worth the admission price. On reflection it's probably more akin to the first movie in a lot of ways than to the films like GP, RN and Fallout.
    I think this film could be quite divisive with the fans.
  • goldenswissroyalegoldenswissroyale Switzerland
    Posts: 4,569
    Thanks for your thoughts @Benny
    Interesting...
  • UnivexUnivex
    Posts: 6,847
    Loved it. Had a real blast, start to finish. And I didn't really love the last one. Is it a good film? Nah. Is it a good M:I film? Yes, IMO. But as far as I'm concerned there are only two really good films in the franchise, the first and Fallout. The others are all fantastic, as far as I'm concerned, I even like M:I2. And I love Ghost Protocol and Rogue Nation. This last one was a real nail bitter. A rollercoaster of a film. And let's just say that Cruise knows how to handle his audience, unlike some producers who decided to shock us all with differentiated content and anti-formula nonsense. Now, now, take it easy, this is all IMHO, of course, but the M:I franchise has been a hoot, a joy. And I must say that in the fictional universe of espionage, nowadays, I'd trust Ethan Hunt to save us all more than I would trust Mr. Bond, and personally, that's a sad thing for a lifelong Bond fan. Don't shoot me for saying it, but Cruise is the man. Kudos for him.
  • fjdinardofjdinardo
    edited May 20 Posts: 2,106
    I plan on seeing MI8 this weekend. I am so excited for this movie. MI7 was IMO the best of thee series. This one can top it
  • ProfJoeButcherProfJoeButcher Bless your heart
    Posts: 1,732
    Saw it the other day, and I had modest expectations, but...yeah, it's pretty rough. No spoilers: it does some things extraordinarily well, and I don't just mean the action, but some aspects are so inexplicably bad, I just don't understand how it happened. It's the kind of movie that feels like a fascinating book could be written about its production.
  • bondywondybondywondy Uk
    edited 12:34am Posts: 512
    The negative reviews are starting to appear on IMDB. Too long, too much exposition, not enough action, silly villain.

    Paramount better pray this makes big money because it needs to hit one billion dollars to break even (based on the 2.5 ratio). 400 million x 2.5 is 1 billion.

    Getting this film to make profit may be Mission Impossible.

    ;))

  • Last_Rat_StandingLast_Rat_Standing Long Neck Ice Cold Beer Never Broke My Heart
    edited 1:25am Posts: 4,706
    I still look forward to seeing it this weekend. Like Bond, MI is must see in the cinemas no matter the reviews
  • bondywondybondywondy Uk
    edited 1:39am Posts: 512
    Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to view the latest Mission Impossible film on the largest cinema screen possible. This message will not self destruct as it's bad for the environment. ;))



  • patbpatb
    Posts: 4,732
    saw it last night, strange addition to the series...bottom line IMHO is that the script is weak
  • Bernie99Bernie99
    Posts: 272
    I'm also disappointed with the new entry of the Franchise
    I'm a big fan of Rogue Nation, Fallout and DR. But this one, way to much exposition. The Score is not good, sadly Lorne Balfe was not available
  • patbpatb
    Posts: 4,732
    Yes, I find it strange that there is so much expertise and talent on show throughout the movie but it's all about the script, it's all over the place. Without a cohesive and compelling story, the stunts become just circus acts. Despite best efforts, "the entity" is still just a bit of software. Evil needs to have a face (like Skynet without the Terminator)
  • SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
    Posts: 2,583
    It's looking like audiences are getting tired of the stunt-driven Tom Cruise MI films. This happened to Michael Bay's Transformers and Marvel too, at some point. The James Bond franchise is truly extraordinary....no matter what, people just can't seem to get enough of James Bond.
    I hope for their hard work, the latest Mission Impossible film makes money, but it's hard to imagine it making a billion dollars.
  • patbpatb
    edited 1:20pm Posts: 4,732
    I don't think audiences will ever get tired of good stories, it's all about getting the balance right. Fallout was a good balance between action and character with space to let the characters breath. Like one of those giant foot tall burgers, sometimes, bigger is not necessarily better.
    PS the obvious way to go woud have been to explore the passage of time, Ethan's age, the meaning of friendship, the loss of Ilsa etc etc. For the audience, these are more compelling themes. It had huge potential and IMHO, they blew it.
  • 007HallY007HallY
    edited 1:20pm Posts: 5,249
    So from what I gather the general consensus is that the film is generally fine - good even - but far from great and a bit of a disappointment for many? For what it’s worth that’s only my perception as a whole and I can’t speak to the quality of the film. But it’ll be interesting seeing how that word of mouth impacts this film’s run, if at all.
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
    Posts: 15,402
    I saw it on opening day here in Australia with my son. The 6pm screening we saw we walked straight in, no queues. The cinema wasn’t even a quarter full.
    I don’t know if the run time is a factor, or what it is. But it was unusual for a big movie like this to be so empty.
  • patbpatb
    Posts: 4,732
    I just get the feeling that there is a lack of "buzz", 24 in my 7.45 screening last night
  • SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
    Posts: 2,583
    Does anyone think there's a current dislike towards Tom Cruise? Because prior to when DR came out, there was a leaked audio or something where he was very verbally insulting the crew members. I don't know if that audio leak has affected his heroic status on screen. Or what do we think? I don't know.
  • DEKE_RIVERSDEKE_RIVERS
    Posts: 1,978
    SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: »
    Does anyone think there's a current dislike towards Tom Cruise? Because prior to when DR came out, there was a leaked audio or something where he was very verbally insulting the crew members. I don't know if that audio leak has affected his heroic status on screen. Or what do we think? I don't know.

    I don't think so. He was right after all.
  • 007HallY007HallY
    edited 2:10pm Posts: 5,249
    I mean, I’m not the biggest fan of this franchise anyway, but speaking for myself I didn’t see the last one (even though I really enjoyed Fallout). This was because a) it passed me by during that summer between life and of course ‘Barbenheimer’, both of which I watched instead as those were the big movies being talked about, and b) I knew it was part 1 of 2 and didn’t feel the need to go and see it because I felt I could catch up with it later.

    Flash forward to now, and I still haven’t seen the 7th one, and I have no incentive to go and catch up on it and see this one either (ie. I really don’t care that it’s apparently Tom Cruise’s last MI film, if it even is, and I don’t get a general hype for this film that would spur me to watch it in order to talk about it with others). There’s also the word of mouth as I said which gives me the impression I really don’t need to buy a ticket to see this film and am probably better off waiting after. The run time I don’t mind in itself - plenty of successful modern films are about 3 hours long - but I simply don’t have a reason to sit through this particular film at the current time.

    Not sure if that’s everyone’s experience, and of course it’s early days. But I still maintain MI’s fanbase/viewership is quite soft compared to Bond, and its ceiling has its limits unfortunately.
    DEKE_RIVERS wrote: »
    SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: »
    Does anyone think there's a current dislike towards Tom Cruise? Because prior to when DR came out, there was a leaked audio or something where he was very verbally insulting the crew members. I don't know if that audio leak has affected his heroic status on screen. Or what do we think? I don't know.

    I don't think so. He was right after all.

    I don’t think it had anything to do with it either. In fact I find it quite strange that Cruise is as liked as he is, haha.
  • SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
    Posts: 2,583
    DEKE_RIVERS wrote: »
    SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: »
    Does anyone think there's a current dislike towards Tom Cruise? Because prior to when DR came out, there was a leaked audio or something where he was very verbally insulting the crew members. I don't know if that audio leak has affected his heroic status on screen. Or what do we think? I don't know.

    I don't think so. He was right after all.

    Well, it's just strange how his films have struggled since Top Gun: Maverick.
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