This article contains spoilers for “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning”.
It is a hobby that occurs in the circles of film buff and fandom each time a new episode of a beloved franchise is published: the classification. With “Mission: Impossible – The last calculation” in first in theaters this month, the debate raged online on the “M: I” rankings, because where certain franchises have a more obvious choice of inaccessible payments, the “Mission” films have maintained a high degree of quality entertainment. This means that there is no clear competitor for first place, because everything, from “Fallout” to the original “Mission: Impossible” to “Ghost Protocol” was in the running for gold.
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However, there is a consensus on the two films that appear at the bottom of most fans’ lists. The first is eternally of John Woo (and, in my opinion, unjustly) criticized “Mission: Impossible 2.” The second is “Mission: Impossible III” by JJ Abrams, a film that felt like it was better received during its initial release (probably because it was considered a minor course correction after the fake steps perceived of “M: I-2”), but has now fallen in disadvantaged. The main reason for this seems to be due to the current reputation of Abrams as a director who dropped the balloon “Star Wars” with “The Rise of Skywalker”, an opinion that agrees with a longtime snob towards his cinematographic trends (yes, we know that he likes lens rockets; no, they do not make an inherent film film). The consensus seems to be that “M: I III” is a film that many fans of the series prefer to ignore.
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Bad news for these people: “M: I III” has become a key text for the mandate of Christopher McQuarrie on films “M: I”, with “Fallout” dedicating a piece of his execution time to resolve the relationship between Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and the ex-wife Julia Meade (Michelle Monaghan). Mcquarrie’s “final reckoning” has now doubled the connection “M: I III”, taking an intentionally swinging in the film and binding it in a way that means that the third opus has now become one of the most important films in the franchise.
The final calculation made of M: I III a node point of the whole series
About all action / adventure films (and certainly all spy films) use what Alfred Hitchcock has nicknamed the MacGuffin, an object that the characters in a film are very concerned about obtaining, but what the public does not need (or sometimes should not even) carefully care about it. Abrams, as evidenced by his infamous ethics of the “mystery box”, has taken this second interpretation to heart, taking a habit of creating macguffins which deliberately keep the public (and many characters) in the dark, diluting the trope towards its most basic form while allowing the imaginations of the public to take place.
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“M: I III” is the most succinct example: Ethan and his team are responsible for obtaining a weapon known only by his code name, the foot of the rabbit and not much else. Stolen in a strongly guarded installation in Shanghai, the device is cylindrical and has a biohazard logo outside, which is just enough to visually indicate its threat. The only explanation proposed on what is the foot of the rabbit or what it could do is a non-explanation: the technician of the FMF Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) openly theorizes only because the weapon is so mysterious, it could as well be the end result of the technological proliferation of weapons. During the film, the only other information on the foot of the rabbit which is explained or revealed is when the Turncoat Musgrave (Billy Crudup) of the IMF (Billy Crudup) says that “it is complicated” and that even its authenticity cannot be easily verified. Ethan doesn’t care; He is mainly anxious to keep him out of the hands of the Musgrave merchant and Owen Davian weapons (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and to save his new wife, Julia.
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As “the Final Reckoning” reveals, it turns out that Ethan should have been a little more concerned about the foot of the rabbit, because it is the emerging AI that ultimately transferred (thanks to the American government seeking to create an unstoppable non-human indirect agent) in the all-nul and nocturnal digital threat called the entity. Where Ethan takes this revelation, realizing that it was its object of the foot of the rabbit which has now inadvertently endangered the life of the whole world, its teammates (including Benji) offer an explanation of the half glass. Note that the entity was always going to unleash in one way or another, Ethan prevented him from doing more harm, and that he is the only one who can kill him. In any case, this development makes “M: I III” the film which, retrospectively, presents the first appearance of the ultimate villain in the series, and therefore it cannot be easily rejected or jumped.
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For those who are dismayed by this retroactive continuity, allow me to underline the many other virtues of “M: I III”. Of course, there is Hoffman’s impeccable performance, an element that even the greatest hatefuls in the film cannot be criticized. There is also the casting as a whole, which presents not only Cruise (working in overtime as always) and Monaghan (bringing credibility to the central romance of the film) but also a great support in the form of Pegg (creating a character so charming that he has become a pillar of the series), Crudup, twenty rhames (as always), Keri Russell, Laurence Fishburne, “Jonathan Rhys Mys Maggie Q, “Bad”. ” Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Maggie Q, and even “Aaron Paul. Although the style of realization of Abrams undoubtedly attracts attention to himself, he is able to infuse the film with an emergency which makes it continuously exciting and does not obstruct the great aforementioned actors. More crucial, the script, co-written by Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, Obstacles to which the hunting was confronted with Ethan trying to lead a double life and continues to have to take a handful of impossible missions at the same time.
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Even if you do not agree on all these virtues, however, there is an aspect of “M: I III” which makes it vital for the whole series “Mission: Impossible”, despite the foot of Rabbit. It is his representation of Ethan and the rest of his IMF team as human beings at the base, despite all the impossible missions which they are asked to finish. The first “mission: impossible” presented a clandestine world of constant obscure, where even your teammates did not know the real you. “M: I 2” raised Ethan at the level of a mythical hero, Capital-H, someone a few steps above simple mortals. With “M: I III”, Abrams and the Company put the series on Earth without sacrificing the show or the challenges of the films, demonstrating how the relatibility of these people makes them more extraordinary, no less. It is from this anchored place that the rest of the series has kept in mind, even “the last calculation”. Thus, although it is not your favorite, and although it can have elements that you do not like, it can no longer be denying that “Mission: Impossible III” is essential “Mission: Impossible”.
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