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[broodblik]

As TordelBack is saying do not waste energy watching How it Ends. Best part of the movie is the credits, which you can skip with the rest of the movie

[Mattofthespurs]

Mission Impossible: Fallout

Incredible! Just...Wow! 147 minutes and it felt more like 30.

Super fast with some of the best stunts, chases, double, triple, quadruples crosses you will ever see.

A super smart, funny script with every actor at the top of the game and Cruise leading the way.

Just so much fun.

Easily the best film of the year and possibly the decade.

Love, love, loved it. Seeing it again tomorrow.

9.5/10 (there was one minor niggle that I thought of during the film that I have now forgotten such is the pace of the damn thing.) It literally leaves you breathless.

[Jim_Campbell]

Hmmm. I really enjoyed MI: Fallout, but I feel like I must have missed something, because I'm just not getting all these superlatives.

It's a fantastic action/thriller piece, but ultimately felt like disposable product to me. High-quality, certainly — I wouldn't discourage anyone from seeing it — but it doesn't have even an ounce of the heart or vision of, say, Fury Road.

[Mattofthespurs]

Hmmm. I really enjoyed MI: Fallout, but I feel like I must have missed something, because I'm just not getting all these superlatives.

It's a fantastic action/thriller piece, but ultimately felt like disposable product to me. High-quality, certainly — I wouldn't discourage anyone from seeing it — but it doesn't have even an ounce of the heart or vision of, say, Fury Road.

Each to their own.
I liked Fury Road a lot. A hell of a lot.

But it's nowhere near imo.

But that's the point.

[Tiplodocus]

True  - Fallout is a bit of a product but an exceptional one, I thought. And it is at number six in the series. It would be great if Fury Road got five sequels that maintain such high quality.

In terms of action, it'll be hard to beat for a few years.

[Trooper McFad]

Riddick
On C4 last night with a little cameo from "Dredd" himself 😄 Karl. Although I had watched the other Riddick films the most striking thing for me with this one was some of the similarities it had for a Strontium Dog scenario - mercenaries hunting for a bounty on a far flung alien planet. Riddick himself with glowing eyes (although not Jonny's power). Hover bikes that could have been taken straight form a Stront storyline. Maybe I'm just looking too much into it and hoping that in the future that there will be a full Jonny Alpha trilogy as he's a dam sight better character than Riddick!

[Theblazeuk]

I loved Green Room. Tense, unsettling, raw. Patrick Stewart makes a bloody good baddie too.

anything pure and good, that hasn't had Satan's slimy glans wiped all over it.

You don't get that from Kermode!

[Dark Jimbo]

A Ghost Story. Rave reviews led me to give this quirky little gem a chance, and boy am I glad I did. A Texas muscian dies in a car crash; moments after his wife has identified his body at the morgue and pulled the sheet over his head, he sits up and follows her home. From that point on we know him only as a walking sheet with two little eyeholes - it's such a goofy, cartoonish image that the film can afford to go to some deeply sombre and thoughtful places.

Early on I must admit my patience was tried. It all seemed just a little too indie, a little too hipster, a little too pleased with itself. We spend five minutes watching a woman eat a pie at one point, and I thought about giving up on it - and then it got me. Boy, did it get me! A beautiful meditation on time, loss and love that has a lot to say with very little dialogue at all, because the visuals and the music do all the heavy lifting. Not necessarily a film I would watch again in a hurry, but I was still mulling it all over a few days later, and that hasn't happened for a while.

[Theblazeuk]

Mother!

S'alright I guess. Well made, but I didn't get any meaning from it at all until I read an interview with the director where he outright says [spoiler]it's an allegory for mother nature, our home, spiced with some religious imagery[/spoiler]. And even with that explicitly given, lots of the movie doesn't fit that allegory.

[Hawkmumbler]

I feel i'm something of an outlier in my complete ambivalence to te whole Mission Impossible series. I get the appeal, but I find them very half baked, low denominator action fodder rarely worthy of the superlatives the franchise is associated with.

[TordelBack]

I feel i'm something of an outlier in my complete ambivalence to te whole Mission Impossible series. I get the appeal, but I find them very half baked, low denominator action fodder rarely worthy of the superlatives the franchise is associated with.

I hears ya Hawkboy.

[Keef Monkey]

I actually feel like the MI movies go harder on plot than a lot of similar franchises, there are always some really satisfying twists, turns and double crosses that keep that side of it genuinely unpredictable and a bit more thrilling than a standard blockbuster.

And the action is always exceptional, the fact that any series can get to part 6 and be putting out action as thrilling as what's in Fallout is really something special. There wasn't any one singular stunt this time around that really blew my mind (at least personally there wasn't anything that I thought had the BLOODY HELL I CAN'T BELIEVE HE DID THAT factor that running down that Dubai tower or hanging off that airplane did - the Halo jump and the heli stuff is amazing when you watch the behind the scenes stuff after the fact but at the time I think it's started to feel so over the top that my brain doesn't register it as a human being doing that stuff and just assumes it's CG - I've seen it described as the reverse uncanny valley effect), but I was thrilled and exhilarated throughout the action scenes in a way that very few action movies actually manage.

Love the series, loved Fallout. I've always felt the problem with the last few Bond movies is that the MI movies are doing what the Bond movies should be and doing it much, much better for the most part.

[Mattofthespurs]

Love the series, loved Fallout. I've always felt the problem with the last few Bond movies is that the MI movies are doing what the Bond movies should be and doing it much, much better for the most part.

Agree and I LOVE Bond.

Said to the missus as soon as we came out of the cinema that the next Bond has got to go some just to keep up.

Also agree that these are clever scripts from the IM team. Not your standard stuff. You actually have to pay attention to what's going on for a change.

Also; I go to the cinema, on average, 8 times a month and have done for the last 3 years. This was the first time I have been to a showing. at 1.50 pm on a Sunday afternoon no less, that was completely sold out and it was the cinema's largest screen.

This movie is going to get into profit in days I reckon.

[Tiplodocus]

I see where people are coming from though: The stories are clever certainly but they never tackle any big themes or make you think after the event; it's standard stuff about loyalty and friendship that you get in a lot of action movies.

And the story telling is clear and good but you don't get the sort of genius flourishes you see in Fury Road for example.

Bond used to be a different kettle of fish; obviously not set in the real world as we know it. But since Daniel Craig they have tried to move there... and do tend to show up lacking somewhat compared to these last two M:I films. (Ghost Protocol seemed to be more in the Bond universe, with deliberately cartoonish action, than say, Casino Royale or Quantum of Solace)

[TordelBack]

If you want cartoonish Bond, look no further than Skyfall.

However, comparing any action flick to Fury Road is hardly even fair: it's just raw genius start to finish.