SPOILERS FOR the new MI movie.
My overall thoughts. Awesome new action scenes, in a day of big CGI battles, just watching Tom Cruise do Tom Cruise things in high action packed scenes is great, and the scenes do not disappoint.
It also did a cool job of referencing the older movies to tie some things together. I also continue to appreciate that in the last couple of movies they have been more willing to insert some humor, not enough to throw off anything but its nice to have a few light heartened moments to cut through the tension.
The biggest "issue" with the movie is that it doesn't feel like a continuation of the last movie to me. In the previous movie, we saw what a terrifying threat the entity is, able to distort the truth, break into comms and impersonate team members, practically an oracle that can often tell the future. Conversely in this movie the entity is mostly a "non-entity", the boogieman in the background rather than actively driving events like it did in the first movie. While there is some lip service to using old tech to try and stop its influence, at the end of the day there are so many things the entity could have been doing to thwart various parties. Its a classic example of a villain that was made too powerful and just had to be nerfed in order to let the good guys win.
My overall thoughts. Awesome new action scenes, in a day of big CGI battles, just watching Tom Cruise do Tom Cruise things in high action packed scenes is great, and the scenes do not disappoint.
It also did a cool job of referencing the older movies to tie some things together. I also continue to appreciate that in the last couple of movies they have been more willing to insert some humor, not enough to throw off anything but its nice to have a few light heartened moments to cut through the tension.
The biggest "issue" with the movie is that it doesn't feel like a continuation of the last movie to me. In the previous movie, we saw what a terrifying threat the entity is, able to distort the truth, break into comms and impersonate team members, practically an oracle that can often tell the future. Conversely in this movie the entity is mostly a "non-entity", the boogieman in the background rather than actively driving events like it did in the first movie. While there is some lip service to using old tech to try and stop its influence, at the end of the day there are so many things the entity could have been doing to thwart various parties. Its a classic example of a villain that was made too powerful and just had to be nerfed in order to let the good guys win.