Yeah, if they were lean two hour action flicks then I could get behind them and actually start going to the theater to see them again. But 2 hrs 43 min just to watch "Part One?" Hell no, lol.
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 (July 14th, 2023)
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Is that how long it is...? Holy shoot! That's crazy. That will definitely test my admiration. But its always looked better than Indy, and if Indy was good, then...
I'll definitely be curious to read your review Wor-Gar. But for all the press that Cruise's motorcycle stunt is getting to me it's still nothing more than a less cool version of the stuntman jumping a motorcycle off a cliff after a real descending airplane at the beginning of Goldeneye.
The Spy Who Loved Me jump in 1977 cannot be beat.
I doubt that's the only big stunt in this MI movie though. Like his plane gag in MI5, it's probably the opening bit.
jye4ever
Broke and happy
There are a billion cliff jumps and a trillion parachute jumps uploaded on social media every second.
This time I was not impressed.
Looking forward to seeing Esai Morales as the villain. He was quite menacing on Ozark.
I'm liking Pom myself. Kooky killer.
mikedanger
Super Freak
All in. Love these movies. Don't care if it's 6 hours. I'll piss in a popcorn bucket if I have to.
I absolutely love the second one, if anything it’s underrated to me. I do appreciate John Woos ridiculously over the top “stylized” action though, it’s always entertaining. I remember the soundtrack being fantastic too. I honestly don’t think it was trying to be hip, a lot of what you’re describing just sounds like Woo’s directing style. Oh and Cruise had his hair like that a lot throughout his career, I don’t think that was specifically for the movie lol.
Yep M:I-2 was just token early 2000's John Woo and Tom Cruise. He had similar hair in Magnolia and Vanilla Sky. The thing that bugged me the most out of M:I-2 was the practically G-rated bloodless violence which was just all wrong for a John Woo movie. You *need* that hyper-violence and blood shooting everywhere as a gruesome juxtaposition with the slow-mo and doves, otherwise yeah it all just comes across as silly.
I hated John Woo's American films. Ain't it cool.
No love for Face/off?
No!
Sorry, he just didn't do it for me. But I know a lot of people who loved that style.
So did he up until Face/Off. Here's me and Johnny at the US theatrical premiere of Bullet in the Head. Wow, almost 27 years to the day.
Same face, same smile, less hair.
A lot less. 
I know that Hard Target didn't take the world by storm but come on, any movie that features Wilford Brimley riding a horse with a longbow above his head backlit by an exploding building in slow motion is a minimum Top 10 film of all time.
Where do you get these wonderful clips?
