I didn't manage to do the workout today - ack, not a promising start - because I had to catch a movie in the afternoon but I promise to make up for it tomorrow by doing 2 extra sets of everything!
Anyway, I finally got around to watching
Mission Impossible [5]: Rogue Nation (after what seemed like half a year's wait sobs) today and.. meh, it didn't live up to my expectations. Consider me sorely disappointed. I was really looking forward to watching it sooo much because I loved
Mission Impossible [4]: Ghost Protocol to bits, especially Simon Pegg (nothing beats British humour) and Paula Patton. Unfortunately, although they replaced Patton with a (equally or less haha) ravishing Rebecca Ferguson, the movie was a pale shadow of its outstanding prequel. That said, I applaud Tom Cruise's courage and professionalism; the plane stunt and underwater sequence were sick! Does Scientology give its believers superhuman powers or something? Religion aside, Tom was basically Superman in the film?!
Dear directors, it's one thing to have your protagonist be exceptionally strong and intelligent but it's another to have him possess supernatural healing or regenerative powers! You can't have him go through a near-death drowning experience (he was dead for a minute -.- when any other mortal in the same situation would have just stayed dead.. forever) and then jump straight into a high-speed car chase which eventually ends with the car flying off a ramp, hurtling through the air and flipping 10 times on the ground. And... (drum rolls) guess what, our lead character emerges almost entirely unscathed woohoo, promptly hops onto a kickass bike and launches into another highway chase, completely possessed by a speed devil. Come on! Air bags deployed or not, you have to be at least a wee bit realistic! Apart from possible brain damage from the lack of oxygen, he must have broken a bone or two?! Sprained a finger at least?! Or suffered from giddiness??! Or should we all be rushing to the car dealers to buy a BMW now? It's virtually indestructible! -.-" I mean, the guy's human (or at least I think he is)! If your protagonist winced in pain when his knee, just his knee(!), scraped across the road whilst bike racing- oh I mean, when chasing the lady friend and taking out all the other gangsters along the way - it has gotta hurt so much more when the car did somersaults earlier right!
Oh, oh and don't forget how the female lead maintained a death grip on her pair of heels (Seriously?) as she slid down a rope, jumped out from a moving car and got bundled away by the baddie's henchmen to meet the villain himself. Speaking of whom, said villain has obviously not read the "Top 10 Dos and Don't for Movie Villains" because he ends up committing the stupidest folly ever in
Villainverse. Did you not watch Batman? Superman? Antman? Or even Harry Potter (surprisingly the movie most on point bahaha)?!! Someone even gave a name to such villainous foolishness and stupidity - "Bond Villain Stupidity" - which TvTropes explains to be "a form of Genre Blindness commonly exhibited by villains.. [and which] occurs when a villain fails to kill the hero when he has him cornered, incapacitated, or otherwise defenseless, thus giving the hero a chance to escape and later come back to defeat the villain." HAHA. That makes most of us smarter than the average evil megalomaniac already so yay to us?
I know the MI series traditionally pushes the boundaries between fact and fiction but they went too far this time, to the extent that I had more than a few 'huh, reallllly?!!' moments of disbelief. It didn't help that the pacing was slow, the dialogue occasionally draggy and some scenes were very messily presented - for instance, the bike chase kept alternating between the first person and third person point of view. Fun for an arcade experience definitely, much less enjoyable for a movie experience.
Overall, I give it a 6.5/10 which means it's watchable but rather underwhelming for a
MI show.
