Mission Impossible II Backtrack
- Jules Robinson
- Aug 15, 2018
- 2 min read
With the recent (and dare I say best?) Mission Impossible out in Cinemas, I decided to go back and watch the first three in the franchise that defined and re-booted action movies in the 1990’s and early 2000’s and creating one of the most loved film series of over a decade.
*spoilers ahead*
A new mission but Ethan Hunt has a crush!
Notes I Made Whilst Watching:
-Intense noughties music, sweeping graphics, Tom Cruise has long hair.
-good old fashioned Punching An Old Guy In The Face.
-Of course that wasn’t actually Ethan, I should have guessed from the turtle neck.
-Not a fan of the heavy metal version of the theme.
-The ‘you HAVE to bring this sexy young woman on the mission with you’ trope.
-Spy equipment in a compact = V. Sailor Moon.
- Not really going for this ‘Ethan Hunt is just like Bond, seducing women left and right’ schtick.
- Now they’ve hidden in a bath tub together, they’re friends.
- Still haven’t had a good enough reason as to why any of this is happening, although I do love Thandie Newton.
- Loving the super cute Spice Girls Feminism™
- “How did you get this number? I don’t even have it.”
- The car spun out of control and now she’s on his lap and they’re making out- something tells me this film won’t be very good.
- I *think* Anthony Hopkins is trying an accent but it’s hard to tell.
- “There needs to be a villain if there’s to be a hero” is a lame excuse for bad guy to do a bad thing.
- Hopkins looks both young and old at the same time. Like the Ghost of Christmas Past.
- “This is not Mission Difficult, Mr Hunt.” Would that film be any worse? Probs just a load of parallel parking.
- Bad pacing so far, not much action and Hunt’s already getting upset at stuff.
- Luther has a tash!
- The villain is really badly acted, no offence to that guy.
- So the villain has already figured out their plan? Worst IMF team ever.
- Cruise is in all black with special ops binoculars at this horse race in the middle of the day and not at all suspicious-looking.
- Her sneakily stealing an envelope is the most interesting thing to happen yet and we are SO FAR into the movie.
- Not sure how they’ve managed to get video footage of blood vessels moving around but here we are…
- “To be a billionaire is better than being broke.” First of all, duh and also at this point your villain’s monologue is just a ramble.
- That henchman coming round the corner after the massive explosion and long, long wait. Almost long enough for identities to be switched….
- Knew it.
- So the mission was achieved somehow with very little peril and the moral of the story is holidays are fun.
Who Should Watch It?
Lovers of the early 2000’s aesthetic, Bond-like womanizing, throw-away villains, bad bad bad pacing and a romance that's good enough to not last past this one film.
Enjoyment Rating: 3/10
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