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They didn't know where it was. Hence why they couldn't start with that right away. Also needed to develop what was at stake prior to getting it all going.
Had the incredible experience of lightning striking twice. Believe I reported my story earlier on going to Dead Reckoning with the wife. Enjoying it up to the last 20 minutes with the train action--then there was a fire alarm that forced an evacuation of the theater and center. We didn't wait around and moved straight on to dinner at a nice restaurant. So I liked the movie but still haven't gotten around to seeing the ending.
Final Reckoning. Same theater. 20 minutes in this time, fire alarm, evacuation. Unbelievable. We stuck around, got back in, and enjoyed the rest of the film. (And I likely won't take that chance again in that venue.)
I thought it was great, didn't mind the slow talky portions as kind of a price to pay for the action. Or repeated dialog to drive points home. What I enjoyed most were the cast and characters not least the return of Kittridge (Ritter!), Donloe. And from more recent films. Also relished the General Sidney character for how he was resolved. So I bought what they were selling and had a fine time with it. MI theme could have kicked in more is my only other thought.
Won't watch it again any time soon, but when I do I'll be ticking off the Bond comparisons for story content. Cyanide. Tiny "radio". Action in a submarine. Moving around outside aircraft in flight. Other moments.
Credit to Mr. Cruise for doing it his way, I'm grateful he got this film made and it's available now for all time.
Final Reckoning is currently on track to make more money than Dead Reckoning, however it will be a miracle if it gets close to one billion. Be interesting to see if it comes close to NTTD box office. 774 million. I consider the James Bond franchise the best comparison. Same genre and appealing to the same demographic.
Trivia:
Tom Cruise put a pound coin in each shoe to maintain balance. 😊
I'm old enough to remember watching that in the cinema. My first time ever watching a film with others and...silence. Except for the occasional "wow" or "Oh my God." The decision to not have a soundtrack actually adds tension to this scene.
Related to pandemics effects I'm very forgiving of theaters and any incidental shortfalls, want them to succeed and endure. In these cases, I didn't take it as their fault really.
Same, I still remember the audience's collective gasp when Krieger drops the knife.
This latest movie was so compelling. What got to me especially was how desperate the situation was. AI manipulating information, making everyone paranoid and putting the world on the brink of war, along with radicalized people hoping for the end of civilization... it touches on some contemporary subjects and uses them in a plausible enough way. Then there are also the multiple times in the film when the success of Hunt and the others, and by extension the fate of the entire world, depend on multiple things and people coming together at just the right time (it's really putting the Impossible in Mission: Impossible). Nail-biting stuff, along with scenes like the submarine dive and the ones involving the US government. This movie reminded me of others like Fail-Safe and WarGames. I particularly liked the character of General Sidney and William Donloe's return. The reveal about Briggs felt superfluous and the one about the Rabbit's Foot didn't. I'd place this film above Dead Reckoning, and Dead Reckoning above Fallout.
I think Skyfall was basically about AI before we were talking about it so much. Note: in MI:FR they reference AI as having an effect in 2012.
I am waiting for Mr. Bond to get the ball moving again.
Yeah. This ain't it chief
Why? I mean of all the things mentioned which one matters to the movie going public?
I don't care if the studio loses money, I care about being entertained. This movie entertained me, there was no deeper meaning, it was escapist fun.
If the studio wants to put out a movie with a huge budget that is their issue not mine. If they want the films to be 3 hours that is their call not mine. If they can't or won't control the egos who make the film, again it doesn't really involve me. Except if the ego in question wishes to preach a message at me then I might have to not see the film.
It is like those who complain at the wages of professional athletes. If a baseball team wants to be $500 million to a ball player, I don't get my knickers in a knot.
I agree. Does @slide_99 work for the film industry? If so, such a comment is understandable. Otherwise, I feel inflated budgets are none of our business, unless of course one starts thinking that such matters are going to affect the kinds of movies we want to see get made, but even then, I don't really understand the inclination to think about how much movies cost. Surely there are other things in life to think about?
It looked great, some good performances, some great action.. yeah I'm happy with that. It absolutely could have been shorter, and it's not Fallout good, but still good.
Yeah I thought the callbacks worked surprisingly well. A couple of bits felt slightly recycled perhaps (the biplane climax is basically the same as Fallout, and the epilogue feels like the one from Ghost Protocol again) but the actual tying back with the history of the series added a fun flavour I thought. Donloe especially.
Yeah, agree with all this, although I think Gabriel is a decent villain.
Funny how the stuff about him killing Ethan's girlfriend before the IMF was moved on from; felt like that was going somewhere further in the previous film to me as we didn't really find out much about it, but seemed like it had nowhere to fit in this one.
I thought of this, too. I guess they figured what was there was enough. The only reference to it aside from the flashback was Briggs' somewhat snide remark about Hunt being framed.
In retrospect, the idea that the IMF recruits were criminals offered a "choice" didn't sit right with me when it was suggested in the prior film, so I can't say I missed the elaboration on it too much. It doesn't really vibe with how the agency presented itself in the prior entries, but I guess McQuarrie was literally throwing everything at these last two that it was inevitable for some of it not to stick.
If I remember the trailer correctly, there was a flashback/dream sequence of Ethan's deceased girlfriend locking lips with him under the ice. In the film, we just see Grace. Perhaps that subplot was originally more present and they trimmed it out for the reasons you suggest.
In TFR though we hear a bit about 'the choice' but it's treated a bit more of just an oath of signing up, and the stuff about them being criminals with no other way out doesn't get mentioned; maybe audiences didn't like that. It makes the whole IMF seem way more rogue than we've seen it be before.
One thing I didn't quite get:
If there’s actually gonna be more… please don’t bring back Christopher McQuarrie.
“Ethan I know you and what you need to do, and I’m gonna remind you of that and how much I cherish it, and how you’re never gonna stop because it’s in your nature to never stop, not just as an agent but AS A FRIEND. So please, as a friend, let me do the thing that I’m good at, what I was born to do. You don’t need to worry, I’m on the mother******.”
When they raise the price of tickets, it will be our business. ;)
A healthy industry is good for everyone. And if the movies we like make money, it's good for us too. We are going to have more.
Well I think (in amongst all of the other 'this must be connected to that, but not before this wire is pulled from here' technical exposition in this film) he's pretty done what he needs to do by the time they're talking, but when he disconnects the final detonator it will go off, and he obviously needs to do that before the timer ticks down. So it kind of works.
PS the listening station had a working VHF radio and the location of the sub was know (literlly on his wrist) and yet, they take a WW2 era DC3 to knock on his door?