Loosely inspired by Bruce Geller's award-winning television series that aired in the US in the late 1960s and early 1970s for seven seasons, who would have thought that Brian De Palma's 1996 reboot of Mission: Impossible would lead to an action franchise still going strong three decades later?
After reviewing Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, I have ranked all eight Mission: Impossible films reviewed on the Bravo Alfredo blog below,
In the early films, the character of Ethan Hunt was a marked man, targeted at every turn by directors - Brian De Palma, John Woo and J.J. Abrams - with comparably distinct narratives. It took the animation screenwriter and director, Brad Bird (The Iron Giant, The Incredibles and Ratatouille), to have the bright idea of turning the series into a live-action cartoon. In Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, audiences see Ethan Hunt scale the Burj Khalifa, personally outrun a sandstorm and survive an explosion at the Kremlin.
Whilst the action intensified in the second half of the series under the custodianship of Christopher McQuarrie, there was also the proliferation of a vast, expansive, interconnected framework to the films' storylines. McQuarrie undoubtedly produced two of the franchise's high points - Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation and Mission: Impossible - Fallout.
However, if the title of the latest instalment is to be believed, and this really is the final reckoning, then Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise have delivered an underwhelming and wholly unsatisfactory conclusion.
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