Before watching Tom Cruise jump off a building and break his ankle, "Mission Impossible 6" actually raised an important question for audiences: Is Henry Cavill's Superman fake lips worth it in "Justice League"? And after watching Tom Cruise jump off the building and break his ankle, I believe there is only one answer: it's worth it.
The "Mission Impossible" series has gone through 22 years, almost running through Tom Cruise's legendary career. And when he was 56 years old, "Mission Impossible 6" also began to torture itself: what made Ethan Hunter, what made him different from other agents, and what made "Mission Impossible" different from other agents? Other spy movies are different. And the most important director of Tom Cruise's second revival, Christopher McQuarrie, uses the length of two films to give a near-perfect answer.
Mission: Impossible 6 represents the latest breakthrough in the long-running franchise (with a directorial encore for the first time), as well as a personal breakthrough for Oscar-winning original screenwriter (The Usual Suspects) Christopher McQuarrie. Writer-turned-writer Christopher McQuarrie has an exceptional mastery of constructing dialogue, humor, and complex plots, as demonstrated in "Mission: Impossible 5" and in this year's "Mission: Impossible 6." He also included action scenes into the scope of the narrative system. Through the call of the camera, he endowed every typical "Mission Impossible" action scene with a narrative function. Create a mini narrative space. Whether it's through shots, action or dialogue, Mission: Impossible 6 places extra emphasis on the delivery of information-something that gets only a small amount of attention in mainstream filmmaking today, but it was very important in Hollywood 20 years ago. One of the fundamentals, and Christopher McQuarrie handles it brilliantly.
While the story itself is still bullshit, Mission: Impossible 6 knows exactly what it's doing and what it wants. From one of the earliest "team up" action films, to Tom Cruise's personal photo shoot, to the best "team up" action movie, through waves of live-action stunts and spectacles of death, in the era of comic heroes and CG blockbusters, "Mission Impossible 6" has become one of the few mainstays; and Tom Cruise himself, the last Hollywood superstar and action hero, also makes people start to believe in the enormous power that a real movie star should represent. After 22 years, the "Mission: Impossible" series has completed the complete cycle from "Mission: Impossible" to Tom Cruise to "Mission: Impossible", which itself is almost an "impossible mission". And "Mission: Impossible 6" is "Skyfall", a part of "Mission: Impossible".
The best action movies tend to have a unique feature that has nothing to do with the action genre: the scene transitions and camera settings of "Die Hard" greatly enhanced the immersion of action movies in the late 1980s; "With dazzling editing effects, the sound design and action elements are seamlessly integrated into the rhythm of the music; and the ground-breaking "Mad Max: Fury Road" integrates live-action special effects and CG to an astonishing height. While providing an extremely magnificent picture, let the large chase scene become the focus of the story and character transformation. To a certain extent, "Mission Impossible 6" also achieves a similar stunning effect in production, not only perfectly integrating every technical element required for a good action movie, but also, on top of a solid script, through jaw-dropping action. The design minimizes the impact of dazzling high-tech toys on the story while enhancing narrative attributes.
For the first time in the Mission: Impossible series, Christopher McQuarrie introduced the "direct sequel" format where the story is connected. But unlike most sequels of the same kind (such as Fast and Furious), Mission: Impossible 5 and Mission: Impossible 6 can either be completely split as two separate and complete action movies, or they can be combined as one. Together, with Sean Harris and Rebecca Ferguson as bridges, a bigger narrative around Ethan Hunt And the biggest contributor to this goal is the unpretentious and aggressive style—compared to the slow heat in the "Jack of the Rogue" period, Christopher McQuarrie is obviously more sophisticated in this regard. Diverse action styles and extremely high action intensity make the action scenes of "Mission Impossible 6" have a strong sense of movement while maintaining a sense of power.
In a way, director Christopher McQuarrie has created an amazing on-screen experience just by flickering on one narrative line.
Tom Cruise, 56, has brought a unique image of a special agent from the beginning of the series: Ethan Hunt, an atypical hero who has to constantly pull out the flag when things go wrong during the mission. Rather than relying on various technologies to solve problems, it is better to rely on amazing willpower. And this is also the personal portrayal of Tom Cruise. Although he is a 50+ senior agent with a wrinkled face and unable to do what he can do, he is still able to save the world from crisis time and time again under the most unlikely circumstances. "Mission Impossible 6" elevates Ethan Hunt of the JJA period to a new level again, integrating the character's personal experience in the setting into the overall narrative through a series of coherent plots and events. In the ideological binary opposition of the two male protagonists, the "spiritual cleanliness" of Ethan Hunt, who is "never changed", is maintained, and at the same time, it also provides a powerful and suitable character for the character's charisma. logical interpretation. Therefore, "Mission: Impossible 6" should be one of the best movies of the year and Tom Cruise's best action movie since "Edge of Tomorrow."
Ten years before "Mission: Impossible 4" was born, Tom Cruise and the "Mission: Impossible" series were in a cooling off period. As for the movie, it seems that it is not clear whether it should finally be a trilogy, or remain in open creative mode. For the actor, the shadows of the 2005 sofa jumping incident and the Scientology scandal have not yet dissipated, and the outside world seems to have intensified doubts about his career. But in 2008's "Tropic Thunder," Tom Cruise sent a message to the world in the image of a middle-aged, greasy man with a bald head, a belly, and a swearing mouth: He is still too early to quit.
After 2008, Tom Cruise made the road to superstardom step by step more solid. When his contemporaries Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp began to fade from first-line status, he killed it again.
In Week 29 of 2018's North American weekend box office charts, a whopping eight of the top ten were sequels. When more and more audiences regard Hollywood blockbusters as soulless machines, their output products can only be regarded as cultural products, far from art, not even entertainment, just crazy about the five senses and three views. just bombing. The biggest value that "Mission Impossible 6" and Tom Cruise brought to Hollywood is to break the creative mentality of "playing tickets and the assembly line is enough" once again.
Can a good movie really be a good movie? Of course not. But "Mission: Impossible 6" will make you start to wonder what made Hollywood go wrong in the new century, and miss the purer Hollywood blockbuster that went wrong before. In this regard, Tom Cruise, who has never changed, and Ethan Hunt, who has never changed, are probably two of the most valuable spiritual heritages of that era.
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