Underwhelmed by Mission Impossible movies besides the first one. Am I missing something?

[Space Cowboy]

Been going through the Mission Impossible movies. I think it’s a fairly alright franchise.

The movies are solid and have good stunts and set pieces but the story is so light and one-dimensional that I don’t remember any of them besides the first one (which is easily the best so far). For all the clamor for these movies I don’t think a single one has managed to be in the same league as something like Casino Royale or Raiders of the Lost Ark or The Dark Knight in terms of direction, acting, or storytelling. Besides the original every movie leaves me with a “that was okay but that’s it?” I’m up to Rogue Nation and I'll be watching it today.

I like Top Gun and Top Gun Maverick better than every single MI movie so far. And for the talk about the stunts and I respect Tom’s craft his character Ethan Hunt has the personality of dry paint. Jackie Chan is my favorite actor and he’s famous for stunts but his characters are charismatic and fun. It feels like despite having all this budget and stunt work and set pieces these movies feel soulless in comparison.

I mean look at this shyt.



Has more personality than all the minutes of screen time of Ethan Hunt combined so far in one fight sequence.

I compare these movies with something like Ong Bak 1 and 2 and I don’t place it nearly in the same category of action movie. If Raiders of the Lost Ark, Predator, and Casino Royale are A+ action movies, I would put the majority of this franchise in the B category, some in the C category. The original is so far the only A. The rest I forget exist as soon as I watch them. What am I missing here? People really think this is better than Bond?

 

[Hostile]

You should just stop now. You already watched the best ones.

 

[Primetime]

In many ways, Mission Impossible gave the blueprint for the Fast n Furious franchise. Granted FF took it to a whole other scale with it.

But basically start off with a fairly grounded and tonally serious first film in which you don't necessarily know who all will live or die. Then in the ensuing movies slowly but surely get progressively more ridiculous and episodic with the stunts and the "this is the biggest threat ever, even more than the last one!" energy.

It'll get to the point where you actually forget how different the 1st entry was.

 

[OmegaK2099]

Def got way better after 3, 1 is criminally underrated

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

It's getting repetitive now but there's a stretch of about 3 or 4 in a row that were

 

[Trav]

They had a little lull in the middle but the last couple been on point

 

[Lootpack]

You should just stop now. You already watched the best ones.

Don't listen to this, OP. The MI series overall may just not be your thing, but you should still have a lot of fun with Fallout.

 

[Hostile]

Don't listen to this, OP. The MI series overall may just not be your thing, but you should still have a lot of fun with Fallout.

How is it fun to go through 5 movies just to get to one that you will most likely think is just okay? Then you still got the last one which was an utter disappointment. @Lootpack is making it sound like Fallout is much better than Ghost Protocol but it isn't.

 

[WaveCapsByOscorp™]

I blame Cruise for wanting to be a stunt man. Now, he just uses films and production to fulfill his adrenaline addiction. Like, it’s a good thing he is an old enough actor and comes from the tradition from a time period where movies were decent enough, especially in comparison to now.

So, he has that old experience but his passion is to be base jumping off a cliff while getting crazy camera angles. He’s melded the worlds as best he can but people will see thru it when you have franchise work like MI to showcase how he’s changed directions a bit.

 

[Lootpack]

How is it fun to go through 5 movies just to get to one that you will most likely think is just okay? Then you still got the last one which was an utter disappointment. @Lootpack is making it sound like Fallout is much better than Ghost Protocol but it isn't.

Wasn't throwing any shade towards Ghost Protocol and I'm not sure how you got that out of my last post. If he wants to run through the series then that's his choice, lol. All I'm saying is he shouldn't stop after Rogue Nation when Fallout is considered to be one of the best action pieces to drop within the past decade.

 

[FlyRy]

4-6>>>

Fallout is an all-timer

 

[Space Cowboy]

In many ways, Mission Impossible gave the blueprint for the Fast n Furious franchise. Granted FF took it to a whole other scale with it.

But basically start off with a fairly grounded and tonally serious first film in which you don't necessarily know who all will live or die. Then in the ensuing movies slowly but surely get progressively more ridiculous and episodic with the stunts and the "this is the biggest threat ever, even more than the last one!" energy.

It'll get to the point where you actually forget how different the 1st entry was.

I’m not sure how MI have FandF this blueprint given Fast Five came out before MI4 and FandF was well on its way to ridiculousness before MI got even more ridiculous? I prefer Fast Five to MI4 leaps and bounds too.

 

[Primetime]

I’m not sure how MI have FandF this blueprint given Fast Five came out before MI4 and FandF was well on its way to ridiculousness before MI got even more ridiculous? I prefer Fast Five to MI4 leaps and bounds too.

Because FF was encroaching on ridiculous before Fast Five... i said it was slowly but surely... even by MI 3 which came out same year as Drift and before F&F", some felt it was getting into pure dumb action flick territory. FF took it to another level tho, as i said.

Even if you want to say they've mirrored each other in the ridiculousness from the original premise, i'd say yea.

 

[darealvelle]

Fall out is a banger

 

[Lefty Gunz]

Yeah you're missing out on the best action movie Franchise