Few action films are able to return the taste of the old cinema ritual to the current viewer. Mission: impossible, Franchise born almost three decades ago from the series created in 1966 by Bruce Geller, remains one of them. We know what we are going to see, we know the steps that the hero will follow and the archetypes that surround him and, even so, everything is a surprise. The premiere at the Cannes Festival Mission: Impossible. Final sentence Close the diptych that started in 2023 Mortal sentence And the saga is also supposed to close, although the final ambiguous does not just close the door at all and generates doubts.
What is not debatable is that its director, Christopher Mcquarrie, has achieved some of the best moments of the adventure that Brian de Palma began in 1996 and that his protagonist, Tom Cruise, has achieved such symbiosis with his character, Ethan Hunt, who touches the recklessness. The actor plays it and when he is thrown by a plane or a precipice his adrenaline permeates each plane. That thirst for real action is already known, is part of the success of a series that even in its worst deliveries has something. That something is Tom Cruise.
Mission: Impossible. Mortal sentence He left the bar very up, perhaps too much for this closure. That is, next to De Palma, among the best in the entire franchise; and not only because of the spectacular action sequences. The second part starts with a nostalgic collage of Ethan Hunt’s past, that agent-sucking in the shadow without which the world would be lost.
The film is truffled with a series of flashbacks-Heroh to the hero and some of his villains who take the set to the whole; They are quite unnecessary. A CIA agent linked to one of the most iconic sequences of the beginning of the saga is also rescued. The villain remains the entity, an AI capable of ending the notion of truth and, therefore, with humanity. Angela Basset has a prominence as president of the United States again and in the Hunt team are the usual, although some renewal pointed in the first part, mortal sentence is strength. Vanessa Kirby and Rebecca Ferguson are missing, the latter replaced in the heart of Cruise-Hunt by Hayley Atwell.
Hunt and his key against lies are still the conductive thread of an action of apocalyptic dyes that has two overwhelming moments, one underwater (perhaps the most spectacular and great on the screen) and another aboard some planes that puts the hair of end. Very at the beginning, it is heard to say that Ethan Hunt is the best of the heroes in the worst time, and that phrase seems to be expressly dedicated to Cruise, who, at 62 years and after having been about to kill several times when refusing to use a double specialist, he has converted M:I In his way of defending a show that is not the same when, no matter how hyperbolic and millionaire, he lacks the human support. Cruise’s effort, his delivery and faith in this kind of cinema are at odds with the time we live and with a cinema (not only action) bound to the tyrannical power of the algorithm and the abuse of digital effects.
Shot for seven years, which include a pandemic and two Hollywood strikes, as he recalled yesterday at the Mcquarrie opening gala, Mission: Impossible. Mortal sentence y Final sentence They point to Cruise’s farewell to the ring of the action. First he hung the Daniel Craig gloves as James Bond, then Harrison Ford said goodbye to the last adventurer, Indiana Jones, and everything points to the fact that he is the turn of the last hero of action of flesh and blood. Yesterday, while sounding with a live orchestra the mythical tune composed for the series by Lalo Schifrin, the ritual of MISSION: Impossible He continued his course. And that emotion persists even in the worst time.