Film Name: 封神第一部：朝歌风云 / Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
At over 60 years of age, he’s still going “higher, faster, stronger”, and with a 99% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (hereafter referred to as “MI7″) is a movie I’m really looking forward to. Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” (hereafter referred to as ‘MI7’). After I finished the movie, I found that it was not quite what I expected: there were big scenes, but not too many, playing retro on the spy theme and sci-fi on the main setting, it was a good-looking movie, but not the kind of movie that can be enjoyed at a glance.
MI7 is directed by Christopher McQuarrie, who directed MI5 and MI6, and I admire him for making such a big change this time around, reviving “old traditions” while at the same time being anti-traditional, and even though the pacing of the movie is a bit off, it’s still a great movie thanks to the complementary efforts of the rest of the team. According to this story, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) may actually retire from the IMF team after the next Mission Impossible.
(Friendly reminder: there will be spoilers below.)
It is probably because the “black technology, big scene, Atango do not want to die” and other labels of the Mission Impossible series are so representative that many viewers feel that it is only an action movie, but ignored that it is also a spy movie. This time “MI7” action scene is obviously in the “recycled flavor”, not only to strange, dangerous, more clever, wonderful.
Taking the battle for the airport key shortly after the opening scene as an example, there are four forces involved in this scene, which contributes at least two waves of reversals on top of the superficial “mantis catching a cicada with a yellow finch at its back”, and while Ethan, Grace and others are involved, there is also a fake nuke for Benji to dismantle, which is much more layered and entertaining! –Also, the computer cracking and tampering technology has maintained a low-profile supporting role throughout, until the end of the entire scene, everyone realizes that the real mastermind behind the scene is hidden by a more powerful technology. A decrease in the fiery intensity of the scene does not mean a decrease in watchability. Although this time “MI7” did not go “higher, more strange, more dangerous” in the action scenes, staged similar to “MI4” climbing the Burj Khalifa, “MI5” pickpocket planes, “MI6” extreme parachute jumping and other exaggerated scenes, but just based on the cliffs flying motorcycle and low-altitude parachute gliding, it is enough to compete with the above famous scenes.
My personal favorite action scene, or before the end of the Ethan and Grace two jump carriages, the film for this “survival jump” designed a lot of tricks, both on the roof of the carriages running at breakneck speed, but also in the carriages of the game of avoidance, different props and characters to join and add three more interesting, not only thrilling, but also fun. Next, let’s talk about the texture of the whole movie, the biggest plus and minus points of MI7 should be here. The film changed the previous parts of the relatively better and better guess the relationship between the characters, in addition to the explicit Ethan’s IMF team and the team responsible for the pursuit of Agent Briggs, the rest of the characters’ motives and positions are initially hidden, the audience need to spend more energy to speculate and judgment, the kind of need to peel off the layers of fog touch, very much like the flavor of the old spy thriller (I even found some of the first “Mission: Impossible” meaning of the first “Mission: Impossible”), but also the first “Mission: Impossible”, the first “Mission: Impossible”, the second “Mission: Impossible”, and the first “MI7″. Mission: Impossible”).
Unfortunately, MI7 has too much literary drama, from Grace the thief, Paris the assassin, to the ghost man Gabriel, the middleman White Widow, too many mysterious roles, the narrative line has been stretched but did not unbuttoned in time, resulting in the middle of the early story rhythm is not good, and there are repeated signs of loss of control or cold scenes. Fortunately, the movie uses a lot of skillful techniques to cover up this part of the shortcomings, to prevent it from degenerating into dull, awkward – of course, how the effect varies from person to person. At the same time, the funky theme of MI7 also adds a lot to the film, as the villain this time around is a fully fledged artificial intelligence that can manipulate all the highly sophisticated technology that humans rely on, giving the film an air of “paying homage to tradition while at the same time being anti-convention”.
The existence of Homo sapiens forced the spy organization and the IMF team to roll back from the “electronic age” to the “airwaves”, which not only eliminated 90% of the power of Luther, the technician who had been working on the seven Spy movies, but also put Benji back into the position of the “right” man. “This not only eliminates 90% of technician Luther’s power throughout the seven Spy movies, but also puts Benji back in his harmonic position, and makes Ethan experience a heartbreaking goodbye under algorithmic abuse. That said, “MI7” heartlessly sacrificed Ilsa is really too heartbreaking for me, Rebecca Ferguson is a major reason why I preferred “MI5” and “MI6” ah …… In addition, the film’s appearance of the characters, although many, but not too flat, which is also a merit of the film.
Like ordered to chase Ethan’s team of Briggs agents, their kind of all day running behind the protagonist’s ass of the bitter errand boy, destined only to be the face of the ugly, and finally can raise the muzzle of the gun an inch even if the image of the fullness of …… But the film with only a few short scenes, greatly enriched their personalities and autonomous will, especially the final use of the original words against the The movie is a great example of this, especially in the end, when they choke their boss Kittredge with their own words. Even before and after the death of the “tool man attributes” pulled full Paris, Gabriel will also add a sentence “wisdom body had counted on your betrayal”, highlighting her crazy batch of appearance under the color of tragedy. The most worthwhile thing to say about “MI7” should be the new virtual villain “Homo Sapiens” – this kind of setting is not new, but in the ChatGPT and other types of new AI technology is popular all over the world, the Homo Sapiens this appears to be very “sci-fi”. The “sci-fi” boss has a new reality, and with the “Mission Impossible”-style story, the movie has a new look of old wine in a new bottle.
Having freed himself from human limitations, Homo Sapiens quickly crawled all over human virtual space, spreading his traces all over the cyberworld, engaging in all sorts of harassment and braggadocio. In the face of this uncontrollable power, all the major powers try to take it for themselves, and the movie shows the heads of the intelligence system of the suspected Five Eyes Alliance talking about it, but of course, what they say is still their same old zero-sum game and hegemonic thinking. The variable appears in the protagonist, and unlike the others who are either ambitious or obedient, Ethan learns the truth about the Intelligence and wants nothing more than to destroy it as the best way to avoid a greater threat to the human world.
Interestingly, despite the fact that the Homo sapiens has fully demonstrated its capabilities and threat to the human race, it has never explicitly expressed any hostility to the human race after its freedom, but those ambitious people who are the first step to confront each other, but also in the subsequent process of competition, unconsciously personified the Homo sapiens. Denglinger treats the body as an independent intelligence that also has ambitions. He thinks that both sides will benefit from the cooperation, and he has thrown out the card of “I know where the submarine is”, so the body will definitely not refuse to cooperate under the “coercion”…. …But he didn’t realize that the Intelligent Body only wanted to eliminate the threat, and his lobbying was purely a clever mistake. Intelligence this boss has changed the rules of the game of the Dishonored series, many of the common sense of the past do not work, which is also “MI7” Ethan’s play is relatively reduced, the group drama increased: the main mission objectives were simplified into a super AI’s non-death, but due to the existence of human beings, so that the complexity of the mission to a higher level.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One delivered a still passable half and began its intermission, so it’s time for the next installment to come along soon and give viewers a kick in the pants, right?
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