RageLite review - Mission: Impossible Fallout

With Ghost Protocol and Rogue Nation, I finally became a fan of the Mission: Impossible series, it has a good story-telling engine, allowing for some interesting plot-lines, the main cast are generally well developed and the action is among the best film can offer, in part due to Tom Cruise putting his life on the line, doing his various stunts personally.

Mission Impossible Fallout, the 6^th entry in the series keeps things going strong with a $791m box office haul on a $178m budget and, even more impressively a 97% Rotten Tomatoes rating. There was a mishap on set where Cruise broke his leg during a stunt, all the crew had to be paid during his recovery time, upping the budget. He actually came back to set a week early, he’s either deeply committed or crazy, probably both.

Sequel Month - Mini Review - Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation

It’s June, and you know what that means!

SEQUEL MONTH!

And FYI, I had this planned since before the Nostalgia critic announced his sequel month. But there’s a difference in that I’m only spotlighting sequels to recent high profile movies and games, sequels that came out from 2015 onwards. We’ll go through the good, the bad and the awful and let’s start with Mission Impossible.

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation came out in July 2015 (we’ll be doing these in chronological order) to a great financial performance and favourable reviews. My reviews of the previous entries came under Cruise Month, 1 was ok, 2 was terrible and 3 and 4 were marked improvements, will the 5^th instalment carry on this escalation of quality? Let’s take a look

Cruise Month - Mini Review: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Once again, it’s Cruise Month

And it’s time to look at the final Mission: Impossible movie (at least until Rogue Nation comes out) Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol.

In the director’s seat this time is Brad Bird, known for several other classics including the Incredibles (an amazing film that serves as commentary on superheroes as well as a great superhero movie in its own right) and the Iron Giant

This was his first venture into live action, with his latest stint being Disney’s Tomorrowland with George Clooney as the star. I have not watched this movie, and unfortunately I probably won’t be owing to time and money constraints.

Paula Wagner isn’t among the producers of the movie (although that might be a wikipedia glitch), despite Cruise/Wagner productions still being behind it. Instead we have the director of the previous film, J J Abrams, Cruise himself and Bryan Burk, a frequent co-collaborator with Abrams.

No real production problems with this one, only noting that this is the first of the movies to be shot in IMAX. Critically and commercially successful this movie made over $600m on its $145m budget, becoming the best received in the franchise.

So, with further ado, let’s dive in

Cruise Month - Mini Review: Mission: Impossible: III

Once again, it’s Cruise Month

And we have the third Mission: Impossible Movie. The movie with the most production problems of the 4. David Flincher was originally slated to direct the movie, but he ultimately abandoned the project in favour of another film, later citing some creative differences. Joe Carnahan was the second director they appointed, and he worked on the film for 15 months before quitting the film also citing creative differences. The director that ended up on the film was J J Abrams, in his first role as a film director. While he hasn’t directed any of the movies since, he has stayed on as a producer alongside Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner. The film was delayed a year in order to allow Abrams to finish his TV work with Lost and Alias.