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Mission: Impossible-Rogue Nation Reaction! (Patreon)

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2023-10-01 17:01:00
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2023-12
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Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)

Edited Reaction Alongside the regular multi-part full, you now have the option of watching an edited version of the full movie reaction with 10-15mins of Picture-in-Picture. You can watch this edit in the player, or alternatively you can download it to your computer using the button underneath each part.

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Ryan

Another week, another Alec Baldwin movie. And the second of so far four films in a row that became the new best of the series for me. Rebecca Ferguson is instantly a huge kick in the pants at a point where the formula was threatening to become stale, and the fans were very excited that by the film's end she's still alive and in a position to keep being the same wild card in the future. And then there's Christopher McQuarrie, the fifth director in as many movies, but he finally became the one that stuck as a consistent creative voice and will have officially helmed half of the films once Dead Reckoning Part 2 is finished. He'd been a script doctor on Ghost Protocol, and the producers were so impressed with his work, in particular his ability to distill thorny pieces of exposition down to something quick and easily understandable like "blue is glue, red is dead," that they gave him the big chair here, and it's quite easy to understand how he kept it afterwards with how well the movie turned out. In particular, the whole opera scene is one of the most flawlessly constructed suspense sequences in movie history, right up with the similarly set-up climax of The Man Who Knew Too Much, or the initial escape of the T-Rex in Jurassic Park, and the movie just builds from there. I also highly recommend his films The Way of the Gun and Jack Reacher, plus his script on The Usual Suspects.

Anonymous

To start with, I’m glad to hear you say you had a better day seeing this film than you did on the day of filming the last film. As to this film, it slid back into being a bit of a chore to get through. If I had to rank at the moment, this would be above the second one. The other three would be above this one. I’m really starting to think this series peaked with the third one. It’s at this point I feel like the series abandons all semblance of reality and just becomes pure fantasy. You made a comparison to Harry Potter. Yes, I do believe you speak the truth of Harry Potter being more realistic than these movies. A highlight of this reaction is your appreciation of Benji. I do share your frustration of everyone yelling at Benji. As you observed, it’s not his fault Ethan’s dumb ass decided to jump onto the airplane as it’s taking off. An act so absurdly stupid, I remember people in the news calling Tom Cruise out for his stupidity on that one, though to the film’s credit, they do start calling him out on his male macho bullshit. Your own commentary on that was quite lovely as well, Jess. Also, if I were Benji, and I got free tickets to the opera in Vienna, then to find out I got roped into a mission, I’d be obscenely PISSED OFF, especially if I had tickets to Don Giovanni; I would relish the opportunity to see that again. Benji does get some nice sartorial moments in this, I concur. A bit jarring revisiting Red October prior to seeing this, thus we get Alec Baldwin at the age I am now, then jump ahead twenty-five years to this. He’s great in both films. Concerning the villain. Maybe I’m just being too picky, but I felt like this film was trying a little too hard to sell Solomon Lane as Ethan’s Moriarty, especially after we already had Philip Seymour Hoffman as Davian in the third film. You yourself said it takes some doing to at least match Davian in the villainous front in this series, let alone be more impressive. Sean Harris was genuinely good as Lane, and Lane is a better villain than some of the more recent James Bond villains, so he does have that going for him. Nice to see Ving get a more substantial role as Luther again, likewise, good to see Jeremy Renner as Brandt again. Figured you’d be annoyed that Carter did not return. I was more annoyed by there not even being a mention of her. Thus, my view of Ilsa, engaging character though she is, is slightly dampened by the annoyance of these films employing the interchangeable woman trope. Again, Ilsa was interesting, I like you liked her. She is impressive with the leg gymnastics shit as you described it. You mentioned Ilsa kind of looks like Katherine Hepburn. Well, her cheekbones aren’t nearly sharp enough, but it’s not NOT there. I was particularly annoyed by the sever underutilization of Tom Hollander in this, Simon McBurney too. Since you mentioned about having a phobia or at least an aversion to deep water in the Red October reaction, once I saw the set-up for the one sequence, I said, “Oh, hell.” and you were on my mind that whole sequence. Similarly, you mentioned enclosed waterslides, I can see how those types of enclosed waterslides would bother you, likely as you said, they’d trigger the claustrophobia a mite. Also, I did read that someone from Stranger Things did pop up in the beginning of this, I believe you were correct on that. So, an occasion where you enjoyed the film more than I. Nonetheless, it was still nice to share it with you, Jess. Thanks for the fun reaction.

Anonymous
>>118797854

If I recall correctly, Jess has seen The Usual Suspects. Great movie, despite the now controversial figures involved in it. The Way of the Gun would make an interesting reaction, provided Jess has not seen it already. I’ve not seen Jack Reacher, nor do I have the strongest desire to, mainly because of Tom Cruise. Though some of the other cast that I know is in that might convince me otherwise. If Jess, you, or anyone else here really wants to watch it, I’ll give it a shot, but I’m not making any promises on how much, a lot or a little, I’d enjoy it.

Ryan
>>118828604

Apparently they very much wanted Paula Patton back for this one, but the schedules just could never work out. It's the same reason we haven't yet gotten an Edge of Tomorrow sequel despite everyone wanting to do it, as Emily Blunt is so unquestionably an equal partner to Cruise in it, and the logistics of both of them having enough of a simultaneous hole in their schedules is almost impossible. Meanwhile Carter was just another team member, and I'm sure her personal arc having been so neatly wrapped up by kicking her nemesis out a window helped in the feeling they could go on without her. Sean Harris is actually in kind of the same boat as Edward Norton in The Italian Job, where he didn't like doing the film at all and saw this kind of action movie as beneath him, but since he's playing the villain and is supposed to think of himself as smarter than everyone around him, that actually fits the performance perfectly. They actually got him to agree to it by saying that it would inevitably just be the one movie since of course the main villain would die...and then forgot all about that when they were actually writing the script, and Harris was not happy at all that he survived and could potentially be brought back.