Mission Impossible 6: Total Disintegration movie poster
Reference News Network reported on July 27 that 2018 has been a full 22 years since the release of the first "Mission Impossible", and in the past 20 years, the world film pattern and audience preferences have undergone vicissitudes, and the acting career of the series star "Brother Atang" Tom Cruise has also gone up and down. However, the quality of the "Mission Impossible" series has always been guaranteed to rise steadily and improve day by day, and in the case of Hollywood constantly falling into the "sequel curse", each can create new excitement and breakthroughs.
The latest "Mission Impossible 6: Total Disintegration" uses a hard-hitting retro style to stand out in a number of special effects action blockbusters in the summer, reaching a new peak in the series.
Action stunts - Atang Ge himself to challenge the limits of action
In today's Hollywood action movies, it seems that computer special effects have replaced actors as the protagonists of the film. Actors are often used to relying on high-tech help to become superheroes who go to heaven and earth and fire lasers in their hands. Even comic blockbusters like "Iron Man" and "Spider-Man", the action scenes are directly produced in CG instead of live-action, and the actors only need to simulate the sound of fighting, with dubbing, and tens of millions of dollars are easily bagged.
Compared with these stars who "make money lying down", Atang Ge is definitely a model worker.
It was for this shot that Atangge sprained his ankle.
Throughout the "Mission Impossible 6" from the beginning to the end of all the action scenes, whether it is a high-rise chase, a motorcycle, close combat, Atang Brother all refused to stand-in, personally on the battlefield. Even in a building chase scene, Atang Ge seriously sprained his ankle while jumping, he still dragged a broken leg to complete the day's shooting scene. In the weeks that followed, Cruise mastered helicopter piloting techniques at an incredible pace, and in the helicopter battle scene at the climax of the film, Cruise not only had to fly the plane himself, but also because the cabin was too small to accommodate the photographer, he had to manipulate the camera to shoot himself at the same time. This acrobatic and difficult shooting, the final presentation on the screen is a very visual impact of the scene and immersive feeling.
Because of Cruise's fight performance, the film camera can capture a unique perspective that cannot be presented with a double or computer stunts in the past. When the author watches the film, the audience often holds their breath because of the tense and exciting action scenes, and at the same time breathes a long sigh of relief when the crisis is lifted. In today's increasingly strong entertainment attributes and comedy of action movies, Tom Cruise has brought the hardcore and stimulating style back to the mainstream blockbusters. As a former "small fresh meat" and "fancy beauty", Brother Tang has now become a representative of the new tough guys in Hollywood, and it is also a shame.
Characters – Women Shine The villain continues to straw bale
The film's main actresses: (from left to right) Vanessa Kirby, Angela Bassett, Rebecca Ferguson, Michelle Monaghan
In terms of the action style of "Mission Impossible 6", it does the opposite for the current trend, but in terms of character setting, it closely follows the current trend of the feminist movement in north American films. The return of rebecca Ferguson and Michelle Monaghan, the important female characters of the previous films, and their relationship with Ethan Hunter, played by Atango, is an important emotional clue in the film. The "Mission Impossible" series is not known for its emotional dramas, which is also the reason why some female audiences in the previous films gave bad reviews, but this time the choreographer arranged a faint love triangle, which is also a way to show goodwill to female audiences.
The newly added female characters, the CIA chief played by Angela Bassett, and the "White Widow" played by Vanessa Kirby are also full of aura. Compared with the princess-like actresses in the previous "Mission Impossible" series who can only be protected, it is undoubtedly an improvement in catering to the times.
A villain in the middle of the strong
Compared with the heroic female characters, the villain of this film is undoubtedly extremely disappointing. In fact, this is also a common problem in the recent "Mission Impossible", and compared with Cruise, who has exploded in force and intelligence, almost every villain is stupid and useless to the point of sympathy. This time, Paramount invited Henry Cavill, the actor of "Superman", to play the villain, hoping that Cavill, who is 185cm tall and has muscles all over his body, can bring more oppression to the film. For this reason, he also grew a beard, making his appearance more vicious and fierce. Even when the 2017 "Justice League" remake needed to temporarily borrow Cavill to continue to play Superman, no matter how the production team of "Justice League" pleaded, Paramount, the producer of "Mission Impossible", resolutely disagreed with Cavill's shaving of Superman, and the two major film companies pulled back and forth for the actor's beard, which also created the new Hollywood stem of "Beard Gate".
However, as far as the actual performance of the film is concerned, the villain played by Cavill does not have the slightest expected ferocity and despair, but is a complete straw bag: than a fight, he is easily beaten by the "little minions" as soon as he appears, and he has no advantage in facing Cruise, who is shorter than him; than IQ, there are many words at various key moments, IQ drops, self-righteousness, almost making people suspect that he is an undercover agent installed by decent forces; than operation, clumsiness almost turns the movie into a comedy spoof.
Such a villain who makes people support their foreheads can only be understood that the film director is strong in order to reflect the aura of the protagonist of Atang Ge.
Director and screenwriter - picture acting skills praise The plot threshold is not low
Director McQuarrie was on set
A major feature of the previous "Mission Impossible" series was that each one was replaced by a new director, which had the advantage of maintaining the freshness of the series, but the disadvantage was that the entire series did not have a unified style positioning. However, it is clear that the previous "Mission Impossible 5: Mysterious Land" made the production company extremely satisfied, so that the previous director Christopher McQuarrie became the first "two-in-one" director in the history of the series.
With the experience of the last time, McQuarrie seemed more confident this time, almost the entire film was shot with IMAX cameras, the huge frame captured every detail of Cruise's life-saving performance, it can be said that this film is the second film worth brushing IMAX in 2018 after "Avengers: Infinity War". In the tuning of the actors, the tacit understanding between Macquarie and the actors has also been further deepened, and almost every role has a new brilliance under his directing. In addition to the tense and exciting plot, Simon Peg's funny humor and Alec Baldwin's scheming are impressive. One of the most eye-catching is the series veteran, black actor Vinh Remus. Although he starred in every "Mission Impossible" movie, it was not until this film that he had room to really play his acting skills.
Mission Impossible 6 emphasizes the teamwork of agents
Director Macquarie debuted as a screenwriter, and won an Oscar at the age of less than 30 for the classic suspense film "Very Suspect", and the ability to set the plot is obviously his strength. The story of "Total Disintegration" is complex and tortuous, and the plot capacity is almost the sum of three summer blockbusters of the same kind. I advise the audience not to just watch the big scene, because the dialogue between each character is a huge amount of information, and a slight omission may not be able to connect the plot before and after. While similar spy films such as "007" and "Spy Movies" are slowly moving closer to simple action movies, "Mission Impossible" is densely plotd and more and more "brain-burning".
In addition, the storyline of this film is closely linked to the previous work "Mysterious Country", if you are not deeply impressed by the previous work, or have not seen it at all, there may be many key character motivations and plot points that will make people confused. Considering that the previous work was released 3 years ago, the reference culture was a little worried about whether director Macquarie overestimated the audience's understanding and memory. Nowadays, many people complain that the plot of Hollywood blockbusters is simple and rude, well, now this "total disintegration" is a plot of nine curves and eighteen bends, reversal and reversal, the threshold of understanding is extremely high, the author is interested in seeing if this will become the highlight of the film, or "Achilles's heel"?
The "Ultimate Form" of Action Blockbusters
In recent years, the box office performance of Hollywood movies has led analysts to shout: "Stars are dead, IP is in charge." Movie stars no longer seem to have the appeal they once had, and instead comic book and animation adaptations have become the mainstream of commercial films.
However, Brother Atang and the writers and directors of this film, with their own outstanding performances, made "Mission Impossible 6" a new benchmark for Hollywood action films, once again proving his star status and the unique charm of old-school action movies. "Mission Impossible", a series that was not optimistic, has surpassed "007" and "Spy Heavy" to become a leader in the same genre. In the movie, Brother Tang saved the world again and again, but outside the movie, he used his not very tall body to fight against the trend of the entire industry, which may be the real "impossible task". (Text/Li Ting, Liu Yufan, New York)