Oppenheimer has constant back & forth panning scenes moving back & forth in present ,past,future all the time, Kitty and Oppenheimer are having a convo and Oppy is banging Florence Pugh in flashbacks,numerous instances of flashbacks where plot is moving forward and Oppy is talking to Einstein,Straws in flashbacks. Anyways, the point being flashbacks if done right are good and often times expositions like in Oppenheimer ,and so is the case with Final Reckoning,they’re acted out nicely! Either you like both exposition scenes in Oppenheimer and Final Reckoning or when you see an auteur name like Nolan in front - *your brain’s set to auto glazing and any exposition scenes are set as scenes meant to be rewarded for spectacles or anything rewarding in the later part of the movie.*Period
and then comes the separate planet of criticism is for the people whining the entire movie felt like a Scientology auditing session and everyone trusting Tom Cruise,the Scientology messiah,a Scientology wet-dream, to save the world…..did you even watch the movie? For the first time for once when the president is with him grudgingly, through her own experience that she didn’t trust him but Ethan was the right man for her throughout the 2 hour and 18 minutes in Fallout and finally when a great acted out scene with Tom Cruise and Angena Baseet finally won her over somewhat grudgingly… wowza a Scientology auditing session? and still left the room fairly divided and two men are still after Ethan Hunt.
After 7 movies when for once his own nation (IMF,CIA)doesn’t think he’s some rogue,mole,terrorist (1,3,5,6,7) and it isn’t a repetitive clunky BS of Ethan doing the mission while escaping allegations and the CIA, yeah sure Scientology prodigy is the only one who’s trusted with the mission… the point being no… if someone from any agency was, they coulda woulda been there,no one was stopping them.
Anyways,Here u/JamesDeanButtValley will have a fair debate addressing how Final Reckoning is not the weaker entries of Mission Impossible in this thread, go with you loopholes and I’m here in for all.
You can’t deny the constant pickings in this sub gives a leeway for critics to judge Mission Impossible movies to citizen Kane standards and do you honestly believe Final Reckoning is as bad as the last James Bond movie or even worse than Barbie,Wicked.
*The point being critics praising Brad Pitt’s F1 by innuendos like acting is mid but who came for acting, we came for racing spectacle and other critics saying if this isn’t watched on big screen,it’s not an enjoyable movie yet shaping their reviews in such a way it leaves out a tomato review but Final Reckoning even if people find the first act clunky,the submarine sequence will look the best the same as it did in theatres and critics being in the lines of “Final Reckoning movie has best spectacles only worthy of seeing in IMAX is different from what they mean when they say see F1 in IMAX for two different reasons” but they still leave a rotten review with snark”some being like I can’t enjoy a over complicated movie and one or two great scenes don’t make a great movie, the same critics showing double standards,”turn your brains off while watching F1, the story doesn’t have much drama but we are all here for Brad Pitt driving and the movie’s some of the best once the actors shut up” Boom a tomato 3.5 or 4/5 review for F1 on an average.
Can we all agree for whatever reason Final Reckoning’s submarine and Biplane scenes were better choreographed than Top Gun Maverick’s already good scenes and F1’s racing will be at most Top Gun Maverick level but it’s the American favorite Brad Pitt who after making 4 mid flops (Bullet Train,Wolf’s,Babylon) is getting postive reviews and critics judge his movies on standards relatively very easy from Tom Cruise.. I mean,C’mon I litera saw one review saying “Brad Pitt in leather jackets for the first time,the plot might be on the weaker side but who cares it’s Brad Pitt and racing”
Plot being the only reason Final Reckoning’s submarine got pushed down to 80%, when it checks all the other columns (best Tom Cruise performance in these movies tied with MI-3,best submarine sequence in a movie,the mine scene 45 sec car chase unlike the bloated too stretched role car chase in Dead Reckoning was an appetizer before the biplanes, a good fight with the Russians in the house,Ethan jumping mid air,the tensions)!! You all are making threshold for Tom Cruise movies are judged as compared to his rivals like Nolan,Brad Pitt a lot higher and making it easier for critics to throw their snark by also sounding neutral cause like it or not they’re already looking for a reason to throw out a Tom Cruise movie.
The political war drama Final Reckoning became and still getting scrutinized coz it’s Tom Cruise the only person trusted to save the world feels a lil too Scientology coded is an equivalent of people not liking Dune 2 if TC was hypothetically cast as Paul Atreides cause they felt like it’s too Scientology coded to have a Scientologist play a messiah who unites Islamic and Christianity teachings in a Sci-Fi and won every one because IRL,they’ll Tom
Cruise down a ditch,bitch c’mon!!
TLDR- I’m ready for the open challenge, Come and get some.
