Monday, January 9, 2012

Movie Review Monday #34: Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol

Thanks to some movie tickets from my parents and sister for Christmas and some babysitting from Jeff's mom, we got to go see the new Mission Impossible over Christmas break. I have now seen MI:2 and MI:4. I am totally into even numbered Missions Impossible. Honestly, I didn't really like the second one. I thought the "masks" were absolutely ridiculous. I am willing to suspend my disbelief when it comes to gadgets and technology, but they were just asking too much with that. But that's my thought on MI:2. This is a review of MI:4. Thoughts:

1. They used those masks again. Stupid. Masks. But only in a couple of scenes, and entire schemes didn't hinge on the use of them, so I forgive you, MI-makers.
2. There were some freaking cool action scenes in this. Tom Cruise's character is basically crazy. And awesome. And crazy awesome. I'm pretty sure unintentional giggles escaped my mouth when he flung himself off a huge building into an open window at one point. Whatever, I'm not ashamed.
3. So this has nothing to do with the film, but as the previews were playing, this lady with popcorn and a huge drink wanted to pass us to get to the center of our row. Usually I pull my knees in and turn to the side, but she was a bit rotund, so I stood for her. She proceeded to step on my feet, trip a bit, and dump a small part of her drink on me and a huge part of her drink on the lucky teenager in front of us. She said "I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry!" and my sister-in-law assured her it was okay, to which the woman replied "I'm not talking to you, I'm talking to the person in front of you!" Meanwhile, she was still standing on my feet. Eventually she moved, lucky teenager took off her drenched sweatshirt and moved to the end of the row, and the movie began. The moral of this point is that I still enjoyed the film, even with squished toes and coke on my shoes and pants. And I will never stand to let someone pass again.
4. Tom Cruise needs to tone down the cheese. I mean, there was good cheese throughout the film and bad cheese at the end. No one enjoys bad cheese, Tom.
Yeah, a lot of this was happening. It needed to stop.
5. The chick in this was pretty awesome. She was obviously all hot and everything, but I noticed her strength more than that. She made me want to go kick people in the face. In a good way though.
6. Simon Pegg was also in this. I've loved him since Hot Fuzz (two claws up for that one!) and continued to love him in Star Trek (another two claws up!). He's funny. I'd like to see him do something with Alan Tudyk. They remind me of each other.
7. Jeremy Renner was also good. I liked his work in this much better than The Hurt Locker, even though MI clearly isn't as important or Oscar worthy or blahblahblah snooty film buff pretension.


In conclusion, I give this two claws up. It wasn't anything profound, but it was so much fun! 

2 comments:

  1. I had never thought of Jeremy Renner as hot before this movie... holy hotness, batman.

    I was roundly booed by the group of gentlemen I saw this with when I mentioned that no part of the plot made sense. NOT EVEN ONE PART. I have no problem suspending belief (see Harry Potter, Twilight, Narnia, etc), but I cannot suspend logic.

    Are the Russians still our enemies? Are we still afraid of nuclear bombs? This part seemed like it was written in the 80s. Update our fears!

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  2. becca. there were things exploding and awesome fake gadgets and general quippiness in the face of imminent vague doom. why on earth would we need something like a plot in addition to all that?

    i do, however, totally agree about jeremy renner.

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