Although it has been a while that Tom Cruise starrer Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol released and raking money all over with "rave" reviews by critics. But still it was itching me to write something about the movie since I felt that the it was just a Ghost of what I went to see i.e Mission Impossible.
Still a large part of Indians and most people around the world go to see a Hollywood movie in theater because of the things they manage to show in the movies, all the cool stuff and the amazing actions explosions doesn't matter if they defy every logic or reason and the biggest reason of all there are no such movies made here of that caliber in India. Though there have been honest efforts and some honest imitations also but still they don't stand anywhere near those of Hollywood but the Indian industry is catching fast and hopefully they will deliver within 1-2 years.
Many of us were waiting eagerly for Cruise's return as Ethan Hunt and promos were cool, with Anil Kapoor in the Indian version to promote the movie in India.Every one wants to be a part of ever increasing Indian market and no one wants to be late to the party.
Well movie started well as expected and with a good pace with no sluggish scenes. I don't know of it was me or you have also noticed when Simon Pegg the hacker turns red light to green of the prisoner cells,
( it always amazes me how simple is hacking, just turn red to green in a cool graphic interface with a click of a button and this very thing encourages us mere humans to pursue hacking but all in vain and only to get inspired by another movie.)
Ah I was telling about the prison scene, when the gates of prison cells are opened the prisoners don't try to escape alas they start a brawl there, fighting among themselves and even beating a lonely poor guard in a supposedly high security prison, either they were dumb prisoners or too smart to know that they would not escape. But our Ethan Hunt was smart enough to escape all this with a buddy of his. Though I know they were being paid for not escaping, but in the feel of movie I was uncomfortable with the idea, maybe its only my view or I am wrong. Also there were many other instances in which i felt uncomfortable with but the movie's pace was good and that didn't made me wondering about them for long.
Now the most anticipated scene of Burj Khalifa, that was awesome and I think Dubai part of the movie was the soul and what people wanted to see. There is no doubt that Khalifa scene was cool but again there were some moments that made me uncomfortable. First thing that suction gloves, the moment I saw Cruise climbing with that I was reminded of Shahrukh Khan's Baadshah movie. Well it seems like absurd, funny, out of the blue and vague or whatever you call it, if you are one of those ' fortunate ' souls who have seen Shahrukh starrer Baadshah and remember it, Shahrukh also used similar technology but instead if gloves he used suction shoes and instead of climbing like Cruise on building he walked upright that too all the way to top without any nail biting moments. Well I am not making any comparisons its just that scene came rushing to me at that time. Those suction glove were lame though with that sound, with which director was trying to make the audience believe how much it is (sucking) exerting power, suction or pressure or whatever you may call it. May be by using those glass suction cups, he used to remove the window glass after cutting would have accomplished same with more realistic way ..... I wonder why didn't he used it when there was no shortage of cool gadgets in the movie, they were scattered all over and were too much for mind to take. Nevermind pace of the movie was good and the Dubai shooting was awesome.
There were many other impossibles in the movie but the pace kept it going and you can't mention all of them if you wan't to see another Mission Impossible and I want to, since movie is about all the impossibles that you can face during runtime of the movie.
Worth mentioning 5 minutes of Anil Kapoor only to be manhandled by the woman, poor IMF secretary no one seemed to be worried about his death, magical appearence of Michelle Monaghan aka Julia, Ethan Hunt's wife which he wanted to believe was dead and apparently he was successful in making poor Jeremy Renner believe and making him carry the guilt and curse himself for her death. Although it was supposed to be top secret between the IMF's secretary and Mr. Hunt but she was working freely in US. Ethan Hunt explained that he wanted to make world(audience) believe that she was dead since all the terrorist world over were after her husband and she was in the line of fire. Probably it was a lesson for agents consider anyone dead unless you yourself have seen the body with your own eyes and in case of doubt, if you want to search any one start with your own country first.
Not worth mentioning were the magnetic suit and robot that 'catches' Jeremy Renner, as far as I remember there was a huge metallic fan in between the two and I think the suit and the robot tray or whatever that thing was must have had opposite poles to make him float. In theory it's cool but the huge 15 ft diameter metallic fan in between disturbed me coz according to me one of them either the robot tray or the suit would have attracted towards the metallic fan. Again it maybe just me or my veiws or maybe that fan was of some high tech non ferrous compound since the movie was all about impossibles. Any enlightening thoughts on this topic are invited. Ahh.... on more thing I forgot besides freely firing Russians in the multi level parking at the end of the movie all the cars had international numbers not a single car had Indian number plate and not to mention there is no multilevel parking in Mumbai where the scene was supposedly taking place.
Nevertheless movie was good and watchable with my brain on my lap and i enjoyed it and kudos to PR department and advertising guys the movie riding hot coz of them and Tom Cruise.
Your Mission should you choose to accept it : Watch the next Mission Impossible.
This is to be noted that I was not paid by Paramount or Tom Cruise to write "rave" or any kind of reviews.
Still a large part of Indians and most people around the world go to see a Hollywood movie in theater because of the things they manage to show in the movies, all the cool stuff and the amazing actions explosions doesn't matter if they defy every logic or reason and the biggest reason of all there are no such movies made here of that caliber in India. Though there have been honest efforts and some honest imitations also but still they don't stand anywhere near those of Hollywood but the Indian industry is catching fast and hopefully they will deliver within 1-2 years.
Many of us were waiting eagerly for Cruise's return as Ethan Hunt and promos were cool, with Anil Kapoor in the Indian version to promote the movie in India.Every one wants to be a part of ever increasing Indian market and no one wants to be late to the party.
Well movie started well as expected and with a good pace with no sluggish scenes. I don't know of it was me or you have also noticed when Simon Pegg the hacker turns red light to green of the prisoner cells,
( it always amazes me how simple is hacking, just turn red to green in a cool graphic interface with a click of a button and this very thing encourages us mere humans to pursue hacking but all in vain and only to get inspired by another movie.)
Ah I was telling about the prison scene, when the gates of prison cells are opened the prisoners don't try to escape alas they start a brawl there, fighting among themselves and even beating a lonely poor guard in a supposedly high security prison, either they were dumb prisoners or too smart to know that they would not escape. But our Ethan Hunt was smart enough to escape all this with a buddy of his. Though I know they were being paid for not escaping, but in the feel of movie I was uncomfortable with the idea, maybe its only my view or I am wrong. Also there were many other instances in which i felt uncomfortable with but the movie's pace was good and that didn't made me wondering about them for long.
Now the most anticipated scene of Burj Khalifa, that was awesome and I think Dubai part of the movie was the soul and what people wanted to see. There is no doubt that Khalifa scene was cool but again there were some moments that made me uncomfortable. First thing that suction gloves, the moment I saw Cruise climbing with that I was reminded of Shahrukh Khan's Baadshah movie. Well it seems like absurd, funny, out of the blue and vague or whatever you call it, if you are one of those ' fortunate ' souls who have seen Shahrukh starrer Baadshah and remember it, Shahrukh also used similar technology but instead if gloves he used suction shoes and instead of climbing like Cruise on building he walked upright that too all the way to top without any nail biting moments. Well I am not making any comparisons its just that scene came rushing to me at that time. Those suction glove were lame though with that sound, with which director was trying to make the audience believe how much it is (sucking) exerting power, suction or pressure or whatever you may call it. May be by using those glass suction cups, he used to remove the window glass after cutting would have accomplished same with more realistic way ..... I wonder why didn't he used it when there was no shortage of cool gadgets in the movie, they were scattered all over and were too much for mind to take. Nevermind pace of the movie was good and the Dubai shooting was awesome.
There were many other impossibles in the movie but the pace kept it going and you can't mention all of them if you wan't to see another Mission Impossible and I want to, since movie is about all the impossibles that you can face during runtime of the movie.
Worth mentioning 5 minutes of Anil Kapoor only to be manhandled by the woman, poor IMF secretary no one seemed to be worried about his death, magical appearence of Michelle Monaghan aka Julia, Ethan Hunt's wife which he wanted to believe was dead and apparently he was successful in making poor Jeremy Renner believe and making him carry the guilt and curse himself for her death. Although it was supposed to be top secret between the IMF's secretary and Mr. Hunt but she was working freely in US. Ethan Hunt explained that he wanted to make world(audience) believe that she was dead since all the terrorist world over were after her husband and she was in the line of fire. Probably it was a lesson for agents consider anyone dead unless you yourself have seen the body with your own eyes and in case of doubt, if you want to search any one start with your own country first.
Not worth mentioning were the magnetic suit and robot that 'catches' Jeremy Renner, as far as I remember there was a huge metallic fan in between the two and I think the suit and the robot tray or whatever that thing was must have had opposite poles to make him float. In theory it's cool but the huge 15 ft diameter metallic fan in between disturbed me coz according to me one of them either the robot tray or the suit would have attracted towards the metallic fan. Again it maybe just me or my veiws or maybe that fan was of some high tech non ferrous compound since the movie was all about impossibles. Any enlightening thoughts on this topic are invited. Ahh.... on more thing I forgot besides freely firing Russians in the multi level parking at the end of the movie all the cars had international numbers not a single car had Indian number plate and not to mention there is no multilevel parking in Mumbai where the scene was supposedly taking place.
Nevertheless movie was good and watchable with my brain on my lap and i enjoyed it and kudos to PR department and advertising guys the movie riding hot coz of them and Tom Cruise.
Your Mission should you choose to accept it : Watch the next Mission Impossible.
This is to be noted that I was not paid by Paramount or Tom Cruise to write "rave" or any kind of reviews.
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