Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) - Official Trailer

[Nutso]

The best intentions often come back to haunt you. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team (Alec Baldwin, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames) along with some familiar allies (Rebecca Ferguson, Michelle Monaghan) in a race against time after a mission gone wrong. Henry Cavill, Angela Bassett, and Vanessa Kirby also join the dynamic cast with filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie returning to the helm.

I can't wait to see that Cavillstache that brought down the DCEU in action.

[Graham Kennedy]

Gotta say, that looks kind of boring.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

If only for the mustache I might see it. okay, probably not-I've never watched any of these movies. But hey, cool mustache that killed a shared universe!

[Mikey]

I still can’t believe they keep making these movies.

[Bryan Moore]

None of these were good (first was best, but still nothing I'd watch again)... I know they keep making money, but I'm not sure exactly who these appeal to?

[IanKennedy]

I thought the first was bad, it wasn't really a mission impossible film. I quite liked the second one. I also liked the last one. One day they'll actually make one where the mission impossible team actually do an impossible mission that actually works.

[Graham Kennedy]

Yeah, basically every single Mission Impossible movie involves the team screwing up, being betrayed, being disowned by the government, dealing with some sort of traitor within... basically everything BUT going out and doing an actual Impossible Mission successfully. The one thing the series did pretty much every week.

I have a fond Mission Impossible memory... Remember it Ian? They had to steal a large pile of gold bars from a safe without being detected. So they drilled a hole a few inches across in from the bottom, and then stuck a device up through the hole with super powerful heating elements that melted the gold! Let it pour through the hole and cast it back into bars beneath.

And all the way through we were watching and saying "But there will be some residual gold left on the floor. They'll never get it all out!"

We came up with every theory you could imagine. A scraper would come out of the device and scrape the last gold out. Or the producers would just cheat and say every drop drained out.

And then the finished, waited for the gold to set hard... and a sprinkler in the top of their device sprayed a layer of paint over the gold. Just as it finished they pulled it down so the top was level with the floor, and the paint covered it over.

So simple! So clever! Ludicrously impractical in the real world of course, but brilliant!

That's what the Mission Impossible movies miss, IMO. MI was never about running around shooting people and having car chases. It was about outwitting bad guys in such a way that they ended up massively screwed over with no way to escape it, or better yet, didn't even know they'd been screwed over.

[IanKennedy]

Oh yes, I do remember. Superb.

[Mikey]

Well said, GK. While I don’t recall the episode you mention, I agree with your assertion that the MI movies are such in name only, and completely miss the spirit of the show.

[Captain Picard's Hair]

Having never seen the TV series, these films are just an action movie franchise for me. Most of the entries are forgettable (indeed, I've forgotten much about many of them!) though the last to date (Rogue Nation, the seventh in series) I liked.

[Graham Kennedy]

Ha, found it! It's called The Mercenaries, and the whole thing is viewable on Dailymotion.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2fyytd

The scene I'm talking about is around minute 27.

[Nutso]