Mission Impossible 4: Phantom Protokoll

[nessaniel]

Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol (Ernsthaft, wieso übersetzen sie diesen Titel mit dem sperrigen, deutschen "Phantom Protokoll"? Klingt meiner Meinung nach total bescheuert... egal). Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is once again asked to save the world but this time his own team is the target. A mission in the Kreml goes horribly wrong and suddenly the IMF doesn't exist anymore and the hastily and not even purposefully thrown together team consisting of computer-genius Benji (Simon Pegg), tactic adviser Agent Jane Carter (Paula Patton) mysterious "chief analyst" William Brandt (Jeremy Renner and yes he was the main reason to watch this film xD)and of course master spy and super agent Ethan Hunt has to go on a wild goose chase through Dubai and India to stop a crazy mastermind from starting an nuclear war.

In one word: It was glorious.
I have to admit, I love action movies and Ethan Hunt was my childhood hero, so maybe I'm a tiny little bit biased.
If you aren't too keen on impossible fanzy-schmanzy high-tech stuff or completely unrealistic film stunts, you won't find much to enjoy.
But then again: who watches MI-movies if they aren't?
For what it is and wants to be - a humorous action flick with not much depth and awesome visuals - it surpasses every standard and expectation.
I was on the edge of my seat for a good half of the movie, loudly cheering and fearing for the characters and although I know that good always wins eventually it was thrilling to see how often they were actually too late.
The performance of all actors were good, not exceptionally oscar-deserving but still incredibly fitting for this setting and filming. I loved how big Jeremy Renner's role was and how well he portrayed everything (comic relief, action hero, emotional core) he had to.
Simon Pegg as Benji had me laugh myself to stiches sometimes: his comical timing was perfect and seriously, if you go into a movie which has Simon Pegg in it you want Simon Pegg to be funny and this is exactly what you get here. He is almost unfit for field work but thank God Tom Cruise is there to save the day. ;D
Paula Patton had to suffer the typical "Woman-in-action-movies"-syndrome: she looks pretty, may seduce the rich guy they need for something and uh yeah, overall I liked her role becaues the cast was generally well adjusted and everybody was cuddly. <3
Tom Cruise... uh... yeah, he was good. Some wooden mimic in some scenes but overall: he is Ethan Hunt, the only one we know so yeah I liked him. xD
What really blew me away were the visuals: Dubai, Mumbai, the chasing scenes during a fucking sandstorm (AWESOME!!!) and the car-porn were fascinating and colorful and ohhh all the great stuff they did with the tech gimmicks! The scenes in Kreml and everything that happened in that hotel and ohhh!!! *_____* I love shiny stuff. Really. Go watch it and just enjoy the blingbling everywhere! *__*
Ohhh and the other highly enjoyable part was the obvious slash that was going on everywhere. I mean everywhere!!! Hunt/Brandt especially had some awesome chemistry which made for great hurt/comfort, for perfect unrequited love tragedy and Benji/Will would make a perfect snarky goofball couple. *le dreamy sigh*
Oh and the Indian Tony Stark was nice, too. Really.
If you want to see, funny oneliners and perfectly executed stunt and action sequences (although the blowing up of Kreml looked uh... lazy xD)and just for the sake of brilliatn beautfil sassy gay hawkJeremy Renner and tech doohickeys, go and watch it!!!

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Re: Beware of the babbling idiot I become as soon as someone mentions Thor and Loki

[telyanofcelore.livejournal.com]

Fortunately I was expecting UTTER NONSENSE so I watched it with my friend and my sick dad and we made fun of it the whole way through and so missed a lot of the truly painful dialogue. It is a movie designed to be mocked! It is excellent for mocking!

And Loki/Thor - I SERIOUSLY DO NOT CARE IF IT IS SLASHY OR NOT WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE? I just want to see Thor be sweet and a bit slow and Loki be a failbender and them to have RELATIONSHIP ISSUES all over the place, I don't care if it's a sibling dynamic or a romantic one, it's all good. All of it. All the time.

And Darcy! I loved her. She was all '...I wish to use you sexually for your muscles' and was clearly much more sensible and interesting than everyone, she and Sif should have adventures. And the Warriors Three should be everywhere, I loved them and their absurd facial hair. I can't remember their names ever, so I call them The Bearded One, He of the Sideburns, and Mustache Guy.

And I really really want a story where Loki's all EVIL PLOT at the Avengers and they're all 'for serious?' and he's all *wibble* because they do not believe his incredibly transparent lies/fall for his ridiculous overcomplicated unfocused plot and they're all 'ohhhh Asgardian that makes so much sense, it's like the planet of the stupid people!' and he's all :(.

Oh, Kenneth Branagh. You will never again achieve the heights of Much Ado About Nothing, and it is sad. (I love his Henry V, but that's mostly because it's my favorite play and that one is not the Laurence Olivier one which makes me want to hit something but frankly he was awful as Henry V) And this is a really terrible movie but that's okay because I'm pretty sure it wasn't intended to be anything but a really terrible movie!

I think I did! Can't remember. Speaking of the hammer - the whole time, I had that line from Doctor Horrible in my head - "This is not the hammer. The hammer is my penis." Yeah.

Okay! Mission Impossible: Pretty colours and technobabble and shiny and slash. That is all. Do not expect plot or any lack of fail. Got it!

...sorry for the novel-length comment...