Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible 3
Mission: Impossible 2
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation
- The first one is classic M:I stuff. When I first watched it, I had absolutely no idea what was going on. The story is tight with Ethan being set up, the action is perfect. I wasn't bothered by the thing with Jim (Voight) going rogue, as I never watched the original show. Plus, it ends with what is now the classic train/copter sequence.
- The 3rd movie is a solid actioner, and has some cool set pieces, and doesn't overstretch itself with loads of massive stunts and scenes. It plays it calm, with a huge rescue at the start, then goes into full story mode. I also like how the Rabbit's Foot is never explained.
- 2 is at least exciting in the action stakes, too much slow motion set pieces though from Woo. The story was cool though, a disease that can wipe out humanity, and I like how it's kept small scale between the good guys and the bad guys the same way that the 1st and 3rd movies were. It gives it a proper feel of being shadowy organisations, doing shadowy missions while the whole world just goes about its business in ignorant bliss.
I don't know why, but the 2 newer ones, Ghost and Rogue, just aren't on the same level as the first movies.
- Ghost Protocol... the Kremlin bomb, the Burj Khalifa scene and the auto-carpark at the end. It just seemed as though they were going for as many big scenes as possible with a briefcase that holds a nuclear button as the Macguffin
- Rogue Nation for me was kinda boring. I liked how they had The Syndicate involved, but overall the movie seemed to drag. Sitting here typing, I'm actually struggling to remember what was in the film... and
I've actually watched it twice