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| Topic | Just watched Mission Impossible 2. Why were early 00's action movies like that? |
| MrMallard 07/21/20 9:24:45 AM #1: | Half an hour of forced romance, action that tries to look flashy and cool but comes off as convoluted and unnecessary, shoehorned CGI effects that look like shit (the glasses at the start, the dove), vapid, brain-dead dialogue for the entire movie and plain-faced misogyny. I get that John Woo directed this movie and it tries to go for that Hong Kong action movie vibe near the end, but most of the movie is just vapid, shitty dialogue and forced romance. By the time the team is getting back to Sydney and starting the mission, 30 minutes of pointless bullshit has passed. It's a shitty movie. And it sucks in a lot of ways I remember action movies sucking when I was a kid. It probably isn't the worst offender, but it's really unpleasant coming off of the first movie. The first movie wasn't perfect, but it was a great watch and it wasn't a boring turd like this movie was. It's like Mission Impossible 1 is Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and 2 is Warrior Within. --- Are you proud to be a Mayonnaise American? ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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