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alobearI was quite looking forward to seeing the new Mission Impossible movie, as I enjoyed the last three instalments (the most recent one less so than the previous two, but still...).
It was 163 minutes long. Aaaaand - there was a five-minute sequence in the middle that was hilarious, and three or four other individual moments were quite good - but otherwise, it was mostly kinda boring...
Also - and here's the spoiler - the fact that they killed off the only female member of the team and then instantly replaced her (in both the team and Ethan's affections, it seemed) with another (fairly similar to look at) female character was, frankly, offensive.
Simon Pegg was still good value for money, though not in it nearly enough.
But the plot was absolute nonsense (I mean, you don't expect Mission Impossible movies to make sense, but still), to the extent that the first thing Dave said on exiting was that we needed to create a new term of measurement for it - mega-bobbins!
For the most part, it just wasn't as much fun as I'd expected and the action sequences were so many and so much on each other's heels that they lost any sense of grandeur or wow-factor.
Ah well - it was only part one, so we'll need to remember to probably not bother with the next one. Dave said he might go anyway, just because he's already invested three hours of his life to the story - but then I reminded him of the sunk cost fallacy and he decided he could just look up the plot on Wikipedia later...
It was 163 minutes long. Aaaaand - there was a five-minute sequence in the middle that was hilarious, and three or four other individual moments were quite good - but otherwise, it was mostly kinda boring...
Also - and here's the spoiler - the fact that they killed off the only female member of the team and then instantly replaced her (in both the team and Ethan's affections, it seemed) with another (fairly similar to look at) female character was, frankly, offensive.
Simon Pegg was still good value for money, though not in it nearly enough.
But the plot was absolute nonsense (I mean, you don't expect Mission Impossible movies to make sense, but still), to the extent that the first thing Dave said on exiting was that we needed to create a new term of measurement for it - mega-bobbins!
For the most part, it just wasn't as much fun as I'd expected and the action sequences were so many and so much on each other's heels that they lost any sense of grandeur or wow-factor.
Ah well - it was only part one, so we'll need to remember to probably not bother with the next one. Dave said he might go anyway, just because he's already invested three hours of his life to the story - but then I reminded him of the sunk cost fallacy and he decided he could just look up the plot on Wikipedia later...
