Review of Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) by Ben H — 28 Jul 2018

Way over-hyped. I'm honestly not sure why everyone is like "this is the best action movie ever!" It was PRETTY GOOD. It's not that crazy of a movie or a story. Tom Cruise doing his own stunts adds a lot to the intensity of the movie.

It's not a bad movie. It's not quite as good as people are making it out to be though. This is a slightly toned-down version of previous MI movies that were just way too over-the-top. This movie has more heart, and they actually pause the action every once in a while to have real, meaningful dialogue.

I still feel like the characters involved were underdeveloped, but they're at least going in the right direction. It still feels like there's a little too much going on. Ilsa seems like she's just thrown in there to be the "powerful" female character who can do no wrong and who never loses.

Oh wait, she does a couple times, but she's just fine after that (from being hit by a car to just killing everyone). It's kind of ridiculous and borderline... wait for it... MARY SUE-ish... There's a strange moment in the movie where Ilsa suddenly joins up with them, and it's never really explained because the scene before she's hiding in the shadows and randomly shooting guys, and then in the next scene she hops into a truck with them without anyone saying anything.

Kinda strange. They toned down the feminist bull crap, but it's still there. For that reason it doesn't feel quite as real or intense. But it's a movie. *sigh* We're so starved for good films that it seems we'll freak out over anything even remotely good these days.

It's an improvement, but this is no classic. It's just good. Not great. Don't get your hopes too high.