I don’t doubt most people would agree that it’s a bad idea to have technology that could replicate someone’s voice well enough to manufacture lies, but given the nature of technology, how possible is it to actually nip this in the bud? Despite the initial outcry, there’s no stopping anyone from using a 3D printer to…

Leonard Pierce saw the movie last year and didn’t have a problem with this. 

For three specific moments in the film, Neville wanted to use Bourdain quotes that he didn’t say out loud but wrote in emails or whatever,

Yes! I thought that was clever. And when she first speaks to Hunt, there is a similar manner of speech to Redgrave’s character as well. I wondered if it would come up again, but kind of like that it never did.

Definitive, I hope not. I did enjoy this one but it doesn’t have nearly as much in the way of sneaky-spy-espionage stuff as I really want out of my M:I. Despite how good the movies are as movies, I feel like Mission: Impossible should focus on stealth, not guns-blazin’, face-punchin’ action.

If memory serves, when they’re giving Ethan his mission - should he choose to accept it - the presentation literally gives a hypothetical image that is basically two-thirds Henry Cavill’s mustachioed face — so much so that I assumed that Cavill’s wearing rubber mask was imminent.

If you stop to think for five seconds "who is John Lark?" You really only have one choice and that character never does anything to dissuade you of their true identity. They even do many things to reinforce the inevitable conclusion early on.

Oddly enough this movie is self aware enough to address that issue head on.

There’s a familial callback to the first film, as well.

There’s an amazing Easter Egg early in the film that I’m surprised didn’t get remarked on, by anyone thusfar, really. When we first meet the White Widow, she’s talking about her mother. Named Max. Which is a WONDERFUL loop back to the FIRST M:I movie. I grinned like an idiot. I keep enjoying these films a great deal,…

I’m still partial to the joyful spirit and Brad Bird’s animated mindset to crafting action set-pieces of Ghost Protocol, but this might be the most ambitious entry with the best story yet (most emotional one too, surprisingly). Feels at times like it wants to be the definitive MI film, what with tying back to a lot…

If you apply the Dowd curve of +1.5 letter grades that means this is AA+ and possibly the best action movie ever

They manage to keep it slightly different each time, but yes, in most of them.
1 - Hunt is set up by histeammate
2 - He doesn’t go rogue!
3 - Hunt is set up by his boss
4 - Entire IMF is shut down but Hunt keeps the team going to finish the mission under orders from IMF director (right before he is shot)
5 - In limbo after…

It was probably a lot easier to impress you when you were only 1city1year.

Isn’t Ethan falsely suspected of going rogue in EVERY one of these movies? You’d think the IMF would learn eventually. I want Kitridge to pop up saying to some higher-ups “I made this mistake when he was a rookie, but he’s genuinely dedicated to his mission”.

Scientology is a predatory cult and big spenders like Tom Cruise are complicit in its system of exploitation, but it seems to me that he’s a true believer who at this point needs Scientology as much as Scientology needs him. I also suspect that he’s always been insulated from its dirty business and, being a true…

It’s a load of fun. Feels a bit slow at times (though there’s still loads of good fights and chases throughout), but that’s mostly as they save most of the crazy stuff for the third act, which is one of the best third acts I’ve ever seen in a big-budget action movie.

I get the weirdness of Sciencetology and the salaciousness of all the rumors, but I really don’t understand why people care so much about the couch thing. That was more than a decade ago, and all he was doing was goofing around on a TV show where he was being goaded to goof around by both the host and an insanely…

I remember seeing the first Mission Impossible in theaters and being completely blown away by that high speed train set piece. Oh, little 10Cities, you hadn’t seen anything.

Honestly, I’m surprised this series keeps paying off dividends, but I’m also pretty glad it does.

One of my favorite recent-ish Hollywood trends is that they’ve now tried (and failed) to interest audiences in Jeremy Renner (at least potentially) taking the reigns of two separate action franchises — this one and the Bourne films — and neither effort worked in the slightest. He wasn’t in M:I 5 much, either, which…