When the movie released on July 12 and I couldn’t go to watch it in the same week, I thought my chance was gone. Over 3 weeks later, I achieved my personal mission impossible and went to the theatre – it turned out to be a great experience at Insignia.
As Eugene Kittridge (Henry Czerny) wryly explains, IMF is not the International Monetary Fund but the Impossible Missions Force, and it takes on tasks that are classified as impossible by legitimate intelligence forces. This time, I found more than a touch of humour in the movie – the theatre burst into laughter at the scene when the 1957 yellow Fiat 500 appeared.
The plot is the usual – bad people have access to destructive power, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team take fascinating, improbable steps and prevent the destruction from being unleased. Each time, there is hope that Ethan will survive the mission and he does so. Unfortunately, the heroines are mostly not so lucky. I was genuinely disappointed to see Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) being eliminated.
I loved the scene where Ethan Hunt’s old id card is displayed. I am glad he has taken to aging well and we have authentic cinematic moments like this one. I also liked the implausible scene where he tells Grace (Hayley Atwell) that he will hold her life as more important than his own.
Ethan Hunt: [to Grace] I swear your life will always matter more to me than my own.
Grace: You don't even know me.
Ethan Hunt: What difference does *that* make?
Post this series, I am waiting to see how Tom Cruise guides the rest of his career. I hope he gets back to doing movies like ‘Rainman’ and ‘Jerry Maguire’. And yes, I hope he gets an Oscar one day!
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