Here is how you know that the films “Mission: Impossible” are great: they were only made because the television series “Mission: Impossible” was a gigantic hit award -winning, and now no one even remembers this program.
What started as a clever set of sets on improbable experts who associate themselves to carry out impossible spy missions has become a series of gigantic spectacular action, less on a group of spies and more on Tom Cruise. Not even the character he played, Ethan Hunt. No, just Tom Cruise. It is the frankness he made his own, a series of films which always describe him in a heroic and heroic light, in a series of productions which also made his daring cascade mentality of DIY.
There are, frankly, no “mission: impossible” films which are not at least mainly fun to watch. Some of them are great films. Some are only major action films. At least one is a bit bad but pleasant anyway, and at least one film works at all levels. These are new – yes, nine (Everyone forgets that there is one without Tom Cruise) – films “Mission: Impossible”, classified from worst to best.
9. ‘Mission: Impossible 2’ (2000)
On paper, “Mission: Impossible 2” has everything. It is produced by John Woo, the revolutionary director of action classics like “The Killer” and “Hard Boiled”. It is written by Robert Towne, the screenwriter winner of the Oscars of “Chinatown” and “The Last Detail”. It is an unofficial remake of the “notorious” of Alfred Hitchcock, which is one of the best spy films ever made. He Co-Stars Thandiwe Newton for having shouted aloud. And yet, this film never meets completely. Ethan Hunt enters a master thief (Newton) to seduce a rogue agent and discover his master plan, and finally he explodes in the combat of motorcycle pistols and many, a lot of dove. There are those who like “Mission: Impossible 2” for its bizarre style, but even then, it’s a low point for the series.
8. ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Recalling Part 1’ (2023)
The first half of the epic final “mission: impossible” has a lot to do, including a fanciful car chase, a spectacular motorcycle cascade and a sequence of cliff train defying death (which seems to be familiar with “unknown” fans). Even the premise, on an AI Voyoue which takes up the world Internet and inspiring religious devotion among its human servants, is exciting and relevant. But there is something throughout the business. The edition gives the impression that most of the characters are never in the same room at the same time – which is probably true, because the production has been interrupted in the initial cocovio epidemic – and the decision to execute one of the most appreciated characters and replace them with a similar seems forced in a frustrating way. There are good things here, it’s just in a big mess of a film.
7. ‘Mission: Impossible vs the mob’ (1969)
The first film “Mission: Impossible” was in fact an episode in two parts of the successful and award -winning television series which was reconditioned as an autonomous functionality abroad. (It was a fairly common practice at the time.) “Mission: Impossible vs The Mob” is exactly what he says on the poster: the IMF team conspires to eliminate the mafia by making the headlines and by deceiving the crowd to kill their own men. There is also a program developed to replace the head of the crowd with Rollin Hand (Martin Landau), an actor who worked frequently with the team. Do not expect a lot of action, because the 1969 film is to build a Hitchcockian tension, but expect to be entertained. The two -part episode that has been recycled “The Council” is something that we, old people, call “a banger”.
6. ‘Mission: Impossible – The final calculation’
“The final calculation”, allegedly the final film of the franchise (at least until the inevitable restart), is not only another film “Mission: Impossible”. Well, hit that. He East Just another film “Mission: Impossible”, but he tries like hell to conclude each loose end by bringing old characters and referring to almost all the other entries, all the time. But instead of feeling like a significant conclusion, it seems that everyone is tired, at least find excuses to put Tom Cruise through hell defying death. It is always a fun film, and the two central centers – aboard a flowed and suspended submarine for life dear on a biplane – are traffic jams, but the intrigue is overwhelmed and too complicated, and all the people involved seem to be completely finished.
5. ‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’ (2011)
The first live action film from Brad Bird raised the “Mission: Impossible” bar, at least as a franchise focused on the blows. The highlight of the film, featuring Ethan Hunt climbing the highest building in the world using defective equipment, is a masterpiece inspiring dizziness. Unfortunately, the “ghost protocol” culminates and never comes up completely. Hunt becomes Rogue (still) to stop a madman who wants to build the world in order to save him, and he probably has his best team, but once the intrigue of revenge of Paula Patton is resolved halfway, there is nothing left in history to grasp you, and everyone seems to go through movements. As Hunt fights the villain in a high -tech parking, you suddenly realize that they have never even spoken. History therefore means less than usual. But hey, it’s still pretty cool.
4. ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ (2018)
There are better films “Mission: Impossible” than “Fallout”, but this is undoubtedly the best that the franchise has ever obtained with regard to the wall on wall. The criminal union of the previous film is still starting, this time trying to acquire plutonium nuclei and uses nuclear weapons to dismantle the world. So Ethan must obtain them first, and he must make halo jumps and weigh helicopters to do so. The intrigue is superficial and for a fault, but there is so much excitement in each scene that it is difficult to complain. In addition, there is Henry Cavill to recharge his punching arms like hunting rifles. You can’t not I love it.
3. “Mission: Impossible” (1996)
It is easy to forget how the “impossible” mission of Brian de Palma intrepid was intrepid when it was released. De Palma was a fantastic IMF team full of familiar faces, killed everything in the first minutes, then focused the whole film – and later, all the franchise – on a whole new character, played by Tom Cruise. Then he transformed the most loved hero of the franchise by bad guy. Damn, it’s cold. But it is also an elegant and intelligent cinema, filled with unforgettable scenes like a flying helicopter in the chain tunnel and chasing the motion sensors, silently hacking the CIA. Of course, De Palma has essentially overturned “Topkapi”, and all those who saw it love “Topkapi”, but it is “Mission: Impossible” which made this image emblematic and launched one of the great franchises of action film.
2. ‘Mission: Impossible 3’ (2006)
There are those who think that “Mission: Impossible 3” is one of the worst films in the franchise. And if you only think of the films “Mission: Impossible” as the waterfalls show, it may be. But if you think of these films like, stay with me here, the films … You will find that the payment of JJ Abrams is constantly riveted. Ethan Hunt comes out of his retirement when one of his protégés disappears on the ground, and ends up taking revenge on a depotable arms merchant played, gloriously, by Philip Seymour Hoffman. “Mission: Impossible 3” cares about his characters and also makes us worry about them. He cares about history and means that all the action means something, whether it is blows or not. And the series has never had a better villain than Owen Davian. God, how we miss the great, great hoffman.
1. “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” (2015)
It is fair to say that other films “Mission: Impossible” have better pieces than “Rogue Nation”. Perhaps the action is more memorable in “Fallout”, perhaps “Ghost Protocol” has more emblematic images, maybe the third film has the best villain. But there is no film in the franchise where all the pieces meet better than “Rogue Nation”. Ethan Hunt becomes a thug – Again – And noted the charismatic assassin Ilsa Faust, played perfectly by Rebecca Ferguson, who should have (and should have) had his own spin-off. Director Christopher McQuarrie, who would direct each later episode, did something very intelligent with “Rogue Nation”, putting the biggest blow of the film in the first minutes, then gradually reducing the action until everything that intended was the characters. The story works, the action kills, the waterfalls are cool like hell. “Rogue Nation” is the best film “Mission: Impossible” as a whole, and represents the best of the film franchise.
