After 30 years, the saga ‘Mission Impossible’ says goodbye. Or that seems … This last installment has a tone between nostalgic and celebratory (there are numerous winks and memories of previous films) that seems to point in that direction. Perhaps not to a definitive closure – that will depend on the results at the box office – but to a cycle end. And that the SESTÓN Tom Cruise seems more in a way than when he did the first with thirty -few. Another reboot in sight to hook the new generations?
The best of ‘Mission Impossible: Final Judgment’
1. Your mere existence. This is going to sound a bit to the ‘midnight cowboys’, but there it goes: no action movies are made. Or very few. In a Hollywood where most blockbusters are indistinguishable from each other from a visual and narrative point of view, where the directors paint less than the lord of catering and the actors spend the day in front of a green screen, the saga ‘Mission Impossible’ is a perfect example of entertainment cinema that manages to balance in a very harmonious way Action (in this install and narration. Christopher Mcquarrie, author of the last four, shows that he knows how to roll, but also tell.
2. The charism of Tom Cruise. Surely the shortage of this type of action cinema has to do with the absence of Cruise caliber stars. This figure of the actor-author, committed to the realization of the film to sick limits (I believe that Scientology has convinced him that he is immortal) and with a contagious enthusiasm, he is in the ways of extinction. In fact, it surely disappears when the actor retires (or is forced to retire, rather). Cruise can be put all the fights that one wants: about the type of masculinity he represents, his acting skills, his gigantic ego … but not one to his ability to carry all the weight- diamatic, symbolic, financial- of the film about his swords and turn his character, Ethan Hunt, in synonymous with the best entertainment cinema.
The worst of ‘Mission Impossible: Final Judgment’
1. The first half hour. You have to see what costs you to start this second part. Between tributes to the saga (how many times does the scene of Tom Cruise get off by picking up in the first film?), Flashbacks (and more flashbacks) to refresh the memory about what happened in the previous one, and a torrent of talk to remember which impossible missions had already been completed and which are to be resolved, the film does not finish starting.
2. Your excessive solemnity. I do not know if it is due to the fact of being doing what could be the latest installment of the saga or that director and actor are concerned about the future of humanity, but the truth is that ‘Impossible mission: final sentence’ (why is it not called ‘Mortal sentence – Part 2’?) It has a severity and transcendence in its speech -geopolitical and humanistic- that are shocking, very alien to the playful spirit of the saga. In fact, all the part that takes place in the offices works worse than the long hair that has been left Cruise for this delivery.
3. The shadow of ‘Mortal sentence’ is too elongated. I have seen it again for this second part and it seems even better than I remembered. The bar was so highly high – that was only the first half, how the final traca should be – that the sensation that remains is that ‘Final sentence’ is an entertaining, more or less fun film, but without reaching the levels of ingenuity, emotion, spectacularity and fun of its predecessor. ‘Mortal sentence’ leaves ‘final sentence’ as Cruise spends much of the film: in Gayumbos.
