Is this reviewer getting pickier and wiser or it the M:I franchise more and more cliché, non-sensical and over-the-top?
Just a few examples as an amuse-bouche: the amount of sweat on the submarine's captain's face, the dialogue between Ethan and the new recruit "Not yet, you need to ask me the security question first", the eye-pad, the black-and-white flash-backs, the twenty year age gap between the old improbable hero and the beautiful 100% Caucasian female love-interests, the very exotic but imprecise "Arabian Desert", the intense look on Ethan's face when he discovers Isla shot dead - but not without first having dramatically removed his scarf and goggles, the ridiculous and endless pitch to the facing-the-window boss in the war room, defining a word ("sentient") by having a character ask a rhetorical question ("You're telling me that this thing has a mind of its own?"), the world dominion scheme, the not-so-subtle eye-rolling and head-nods one protagonist sends to another to signal the next moves, the kitchen staff minding their own business in the runaway train, etc.
Feel free to watch this 1990's tough-guy-bringing-his-girlfriend-to-the-movies-"Ryan said it's actually a romantic" film, or choose to spend your valuable learning of Oppenheimer's story or enjoying Barbie's satire of machismo.
Just a few examples as an amuse-bouche: the amount of sweat on the submarine's captain's face, the dialogue between Ethan and the new recruit "Not yet, you need to ask me the security question first", the eye-pad, the black-and-white flash-backs, the twenty year age gap between the old improbable hero and the beautiful 100% Caucasian female love-interests, the very exotic but imprecise "Arabian Desert", the intense look on Ethan's face when he discovers Isla shot dead - but not without first having dramatically removed his scarf and goggles, the ridiculous and endless pitch to the facing-the-window boss in the war room, defining a word ("sentient") by having a character ask a rhetorical question ("You're telling me that this thing has a mind of its own?"), the world dominion scheme, the not-so-subtle eye-rolling and head-nods one protagonist sends to another to signal the next moves, the kitchen staff minding their own business in the runaway train, etc.
Feel free to watch this 1990's tough-guy-bringing-his-girlfriend-to-the-movies-"Ryan said it's actually a romantic" film, or choose to spend your valuable learning of Oppenheimer's story or enjoying Barbie's satire of machismo.
