Woo and Hollywood were always a weird fit. Hell, Woo even managed to make a better movie with a medium talent like Jean-Claude Van Damme (1993’s Hard Target) than he did here with Cruise. This actually kills me to write because I absolutely fucking adore John Woo, but I think even the revered Hong Kong action auteur would cop to the fact that M:I 2 was not his finest hour behind the camera. So without further throat-clearing, here’s our definitive ranking of the six M:I films, from worst to best…. But you could say, it’s our mission and we chose to accept it.
Which makes ranking the Mission: Impossible films no easy challenge. But they’re also different enough (thematically, stylistically, narratively) to keep us coming back for more. Sure, you could argue that each chapter in the IMF Cinematic Universe is, in a way, kind of the same. But if the M:I movies were only about Cruise risking his life for our popcorn amusement, the sensational saga would never have made it as far as it has.
#Mission impossible 5 movie review series
Thanks to its similarly ageless star, Tom Cruise as IMF ringleader Ethan Hunt, and his sweet tooth for old-school death-wish show-stopping stunts, the series seems hellbent on upping the ante like a deranged gambler with each subsequent installment. Since then, it has matured into the rare-maybe the only-long-running blockbuster franchise that actually seems to get better and better as it goes on and on. The first Mission: Impossible hit theaters exactly 25 years ago.
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