Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning: The Geriatric Stuntman

Ethan hunt is back for one final adventure.

There is nothing final about this film, the idea this is the last Mission Impossible film is a fallacy. This film is terrified of doing anything that has a whiff of ending to it. Killing off characters? Nah, Having people retire at the end? Nah. Actually properly wrapping up the plot? Nah.

There are ridiculous scenes such as where Hunt, Tom Cruise, is falling without a parachute to certain death and yet he magically manages to find one in the next shot. Or when Benji, Simon Pegg, is shot and looks like he is going to die yet lives thanks to some simple medical hack, who knew getting shot was so easy to walk off. The only person they do kill is Luther, Ving Rhames, and even then I would not be surprised if he came back in another film. Honestly the plot armour is so thick here it gets to the point where even if everyone fired off their nuclear arsenals Hunt and co would be just fine.

Then you have the long self-indulgent bloat, the film is on for an ungodly amount of time and why? Does it put it to good use? No it does it to cram in as much pointless nostalgia as possible, remember the security guard from one of the earlier films? No well you are going to meet him and spend a bunch of time with his family. This feels like one of those times where you needed a cruel studio executive to force through cuts and get the film into better shape.

Overall, reheated slop that needs to die off as a franchise. It has had its time, it is over.

2/5

Pros.

Some dumb fun

Pom Klementieff is a great addition

Cons.

It is too scared for meaningful character death

It is bloated

It is boring at times

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Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part Two: The End

Summary

The final battle.

So this the better one of the two-parter. They throw everything they have into the Battle of Hogwarts effects wise and that makes for some great action. I would have liked things to be a little more inventive, like these are wizards and witches who can conjure things out of thin air. Hagrid, Robbie Coltrane could have let lose her collection of magical creatures with a number of pay offs to previous films, but no.

I enjoyed that this film took things away the central trio and tried to give other characters moments this helped to make it feel less like another round of teen angst. I did not like seeing the flashforward at the end and seeing where all the characters ended up as I thought that it was underdeveloped and once again ignored world building to focus on the three characters.

Overall, a much better second half but not one that is perfect

3.5/5

Pros.

The battle

Giving other characters some spotlight

The tone

The pacing

Cons.

They could have done more

The flashforward is not explored enough

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Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part One: The Love Triangle That No One Needed

Summary

Harry, Ron, Rupert Grint, and Hermione set off to find the horcruxes.

So this film is a mess. From top to bottom.

For two key reasons. Firstly, you have the fact that rather than focus on a world that Voldemort, Ralph Fiennes, has taken over and show us what that is like, or show us the Order of the Phoenix fighting back against Voldemort and his forces, we get to follow Ron, Harry and Hermione as they trapes over the countryside.

Secondly, and very much woven into the first reason is the fact that of the Ron, Harry and Hermione storyline a hell of a lot of it is taken up with the awkward sort of love triangle. This just feels far too YA and is not of any interest to anyone. It feels like needless filler to justify the need to split the book into two films. They could have spent that time showing us more of the world.

Something I will applaud the film for is that it does go to some quite dark places and handles the mature subject matter well. When Hermione is being tortured in Malfoy manner it feels very distressing and real, and in this moment the series really does manage to shed its childlike image.

Overall, forget worldbuilding lets have a love triangle instead.

2.5/5

Pros.

The mature tone

A few good battle scenes

The Deathly Hallows story animated is well done

Cons.

Too much angst

A deeply unnecessary love triangle

Little world building

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