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Mission: Impossible 1996
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The two biggest twists in the series are found here: that Ethan Hunt has parents, and that he never fires a gun in this movie.
Now that I've worked my way back to the start of the series, I'm convinced that what makes it work isn't the high-risk extreme stunts, nor the character introspections of the McQuarrie movies, but rather the heist factor. These aren't just action-guy adventures where some dude gets a gun and blows through a country on…
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Mission: Impossible II 2000
People point out the motorcycle jousting without remembering that that is one minute of an otherwise impressively boring 2 hours. There's a great first 20 minutes which rides the line between stupid bullshit and cheesy fun pretty well, (even if the character of Ethan Hunt is completely replaced by an arrogant, smarmy skinwalker), but then takes a screeching halt to just stand around and talk about how torturous love can be, especially in slow-motion.
The finale is also a bunch…
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