Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird, 2011)
A big step up from the last film, Bird handles the direction with assured confidence that gives the film its own unique style which feels very cohesive and makes for an enjoyable and thrilling experience. There's a synthesis between the performances (mainly Cruise and his sunts), the cinematography from Elswit and the editing. It all works together, with a slightly more humourous script too.
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (Christopher McQuarrie, 2015)
McQuarrie carries on the good work from the last film and gives us plenty more of the good stuff. The action sequences in this film are for me the best of the series. Watching all six films in a row makes you realise just how laughable some of the plots are, especially when the same story is almost recycled six times, but when it's all filmed so well you don't really mind. The introduction of Rebecca Ferguson really helps in taking the film up a notch too, the balance feels spot on here with a mixture of characters old and new.
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie, 2018)
Another very strong film with many of the same strong qualities as the last film. My minor complaints would be that it does seem slightly overlong, and the attempts to bring some sort of emotional core with the reintroduction of his wife into the story is really, really weak.
The Godfather: Part III (Francis Ford Coppola, 1990)
I love the first two films but had put this off for ages and now I kind of wish I had never watched it. I knew it wasn't meant to be as strong as the first two but I was really disappointed by it. Almost everything about it seems off. Sofia Coppola gets a lot of stick and her performance is weak but the problems are much larger than that. I'd go as far as saying that the film is full of poor performances with the exception of Andy Garcia. Even Pacino isn't enjoyable on screen, and the script completely butchers his character. George Hamilton's casting is strange, the dialogue is so exposition-heavy, the plot is just the first film recycled with a bit of the second thrown in. It's as if a teenager watched the first two and had a go at writing a third. Some of the scenes and shots are really bizarre, the stroke, the shootout with the old man grabbing the coat. The editing of the film feels poor, some scenes (especially in the first half) move at a lightning pace which is really uncomfortable when coupled with the poor line delivery from everyone, then the second half of the film drags on forever.