Yeah but it should've been an epic battle at the end. And dammit, I wanted it to be longer, with, as I said, more hair pulling, more clothes tearing, and more blood. And they should've developed that French chick as a major villain.
They could have, I suppose, but she remained simply a fringe character. I wasn't really impressed by the baddie, although he did go a number of rounds there at the end despite how old he looked.
I've never been impressed with chick fights in the cinema because they're treated so humanely. It pisses me off.
You should watch The Descent. It's a good nuanced look at tough female in a crappy situation; no long drawn out battles between the women themselves, but when they do happen, it's definitely ruthless.
Another thing I'll say about the movie is the villains were unspectacular.
Yes, like I said, I was bored by much of the movie. it didn't elevate above the level of average James Bond pics here.
But dammit, that fight in the parking garage was pretty frickin' creative!
It was interesting, and I liked the constantly changing environment (a more real-time version of the chase scenes in Dark City), and I also figured out what he'd do to reach the box in time. But really, I just felt I was watching a "paint by numbers" piece. I'm just surprised and disappointed. Cruise did fine in the role; it's just that the screenplay sucked and the directing seemed flat, big-picture wise. Uncompelling.
Seriously Rotten Tomatoes? 93%? It wasn't a bad movie, but it wasn't a good one either. The trailer didn't impress me and I should have trusted my gut. This will probably be the last MI that I see in theaters. The reason why I liked the first one so much is because it didn't seem like another James Bond movie and it had a suspenseful and intriguing plot. Highly stylized violence and unrealistic action sequences are overrated. Simon Pegg was funny in Shaun of the Dead, but he doesn't belong in Mission: Impossible.
He was in MI3 and did work there as comic relief, because he did not play a HUGE role in the picture... but here they seemed to rely on him to make all the scenes sparkle, and he's really a secondary character in terms of team role. It just got very old. (He's also playing Scotty in Star Trek Abram's style, and again plays a similar role there as well.)
I actually liked the trailer, but it was edited nicely from the boring flow. I would probably only give the movie a 70% on the tomato scale, max. the score in the 90's suggests it is far better than is. (Although remember that it's a thumbs up or thumbs down; all it's say is that 93% of people thought it wasn't bad; that doesn't say they thought it was good.)
Speaking of ridiculous action movies, looks like there's a sequel to GI Joe coming out and guess who's in it? No...not Jason Statham, but I understand why you would think that because he can't act for shit and plays the same hollow character in every movie. It's Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson, of course. He should've stuck with fake wrestling instead of fake acting.
Ha ha, I thought you were referring to yet ANOTHER famous action hero slammed into the end of the trailer for that movie. Like, wth is THAT about? He should just go back to his own series, I heard he's got #5 coming out this year.
Gotta say, I actually liked the first GI Joe for what it was, but the trailer here looked really boring... and is essentially the same overall schema as MI4. Like, you guys all get together and sit in a room and come up with the same plot for your movie studios? It's crazy.
