Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning – Part One is another worthy addition to this beloved franchise. After top-tier Tom Cruise / Christopher McQuarrie action in Rogue Nation and Fallout, Team IMF have returned to fight… an AI?! But thats not the strangest thing to happen in the movie. For me, the handling of one of my favourite characters in Ilsa Faust was more than a little disappointing… in spite of some of the best set pieces the series has to offer!
Join me as I break down what I loved about Dead Reckoning and the one thing I did not…
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Another thing to add is that it made absolutely 0 sense that both Ilsa and Grace showed up at the same bridge that Gabriel was just waiting at, and neither turned around to run away from the man who literally just prophesized their death minutes earlier. The movie gave no explanation at all as to their motives so the whole time Ilsa was fighting and dying, I was just left confused and felt like it was completely preventable.
Yup. At worst, Isla sacrifices herself for Ethan.. but for out of nowhere Grace? Nah. Maybe if we've built up character development for her where she's moving from self-serving and purely driven by survival to being in service to the poor and unfortunate (and then you'd have to alter Grace's character to merit that great a sacrifice).
She’s not dead
Honestly this is assuming that Grace will be his love interest
Sure they have chemistry and I could see it happening but I could also just as easily becoming a mentorship relationship just as much as a proper romantic relationship
Ethan is canonically of a similar age to cruise and while they could pull off the age gap between him and grace, I think the mentorship is the path of least resistance for the franchise
It’ll upset the least amount of people and be the potential path foward for maybe a new Ethan hunt, Grace becoming the new defacto main character
As for the fate of IIsa, if she stays dead I think it’s for the best
She’s a big fan favorite and she didn’t go out without a fight, she’s the one who chose to go to that bridge and lay down her life for someone else
It not only mirrors Ethan’s character showing her growth since her introduction in rogue nation
But also sadly is the pattern with her character, she can’t help herself
She had three times to get out and kept being pulled back in
Three strikes and she’s out, her luck ran out
A sentiment that I feel Ethan is about to follow
Grace potentially being the next to take up his role as MC. Again IF they keep it as a mentorship relationship
Absolutely, well said on everything, especially regarding Ilsa. And there's more issues in the movie with the rest of the female characters. Grace, she constantly needs saving from Ethan in a way that the character has not earned. As in, the vulnerabilty that she displays feels so fake and unfitting to the narrative. If they were trying to do a parallel to the first MI movie and Claire's duality in seducing Ethan while also being her own strong independent character, well… They failed. Grace in the end came off as unbelievable, and hindering to the character of Ethan Hunt. Like, it also ties in to that mystery woman in the flashbacks who apparently made a huge impact on Ethan's life, yet it's so shoehorned in. Then, Paris. It was so incredibly irritating to have a female villain character who DID NOT TALK for most of her scenes, I had absolutely NO idea who she was, what she wanted, or most importantly WHY she was doing the things she was doing. The whole car chase with her in the Rummer was sooo annoying because we were given no context for why she was doing that chase and in the manner that she carried it out. Lastly, the white widow. My main gripe was that this character's eye color COMPLETELY changes from blue to brown when Grace is wearing her mask and not one person notices?? Her own fucking brother does not notice? After Ilsa's death, this is the biggest fumble in the movie. Like, soooo incredibly unrealistic.
There was NOTHING bad about Mission Impossible 2. It was waaaaay better than that boring first entry in the series.
M:I 5 IS NOT the BEST of the series. I don't understand where this false narrative started. You'd have to be out of your mind to say it's better than M:I 6 FALLOUT. FALLOUT is LITERALLY the GREATEST Action Film EVER made in History. Dead Reckoning Part One is actually BETTER than M:I 5 and M:I 4. I look forward to Part Two.
I feel like people trash on Mission impossible 2 just because it's popular to.
I'm a huge fan of MI:6 with MI:5 a close second. MI:7 was excellent, and I loved that Henry Czerny was back as Kittridge
Movie Is Awsome , Ilsa death was sad maybe need for the plot with gabriel ,altough we are all ver sad that shes not in MI anymore she was realy 1 of the best chars,its the last MI part 2 will not let Ethan alive, im almost sure he will die in sebastopol submarine , but thats all me saying lets see if tom can suprise us all because this part 1 was realy good we NEED and even more awsome PART 2!
I thought Ilsa's death was built up well, mostly by her moments with Ethan. They were the most touching part of the movie for me, and even though Ethan's reaction wasn't vocal, loud or something similar, it was clear he was going through so much pain and loss. I also thought him thinking of her when jumping off the cliff on his motorcycle was touching too, since it gave him something to fight for even more than he already did. Story-wise, Ilsa's death works for me, but I do hope she is brought back in a smart way. If she is, that would be awesome, and one heck of a twist–plus, we could get the happy ending we want. So, really, as of right now, I am fine with her death. It worked. But we'll see if she actually died. Either way it ends up happening, I liked it. And the rest of movie itself was great. 9.5/10 for me!
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First off I have to say that I love Tom Cruise and his films. I’ve defended the guy even when it wasn’t fashionable and The Last Samurai is in my top 3 favourite films. Maverick was epic and I respect his commitment to his craft but having seen MI: Dead Reckoning I do have to say that it was just okay.
I totally appreciate that the film wasn’t woke and there wasn’t any messaging being thrust down our throat though maybe Pom fighting evenly with Tom is a bit of a stretch. And so for that reason I do understand that it is important that the film does well at the Box Office to show Hollywood the way forward.
But with that in mind, let’s not get too carried away because it still suffers from some real problems. The sense of peril for any of the characters has all but vanished because we’ve seen what the characters are capable of and we remember the other films.
I mean did the bomb in the airport really have any tension behind it at all? We know the franchise. We know they won’t detonate a bomb in an airport in the first act. So it seems false and treating the audience as if they have never seen an MI film before.
And having an audience that knows the characters leads to other problems. Having seen Tom and Ilsa kick the literal crap out of room loads of guys before, having her run away when presented with the unnecessarily dramatic scene in Venice seems really forced.
Let’s be honest, no one really presents a credible physical threat to those two (because of what they’ve shown us in the other films) and hence to have them split up and run away just feels really pointless or rather clearly foreshadowing a lazily constructed and unsurprising moment of apparent drama. Why would you do that? Why would Ethan shout run when they could fight their way out of the situation with ease?
And likewise the makers really do need to pay attention to the marketing that they do for these films. When they splash memorable images of Tom and Hayley in the train everywhere pre launch, it kills any tension in the second act of who might die. It’s patently obvious who will die because you’ve previously shown me who is on the train at the end.
Similar to this is the never ending fixation with the need for amazing stunts. The bike jump is impressive but is it REALLY that more impressive than the Bond ski jump at the beginning of TSWLM which was nearly 50 years ago? And in turn it can’t just have been me that felt like they thought of the stunt first and then crammed in a kinda pointless scene to facilitate it? An obvious stunt for stunt’s sake is not conducive to building tension. I might as well watch the X Games for that.
Yes the film was fun but like John Wick, when there is too much action and the main character has despatched bad guys with ease for the last 90 minutes, seeing them do it for another 30 minutes is just wallpaper.
While the film was okay, the acting was good, the music was great and some of the action was kinda cool, it did feel generic, a little lazy and a little ‘going through the motions’.
What I really fear, and I saw this with the glowing praise of Wick 4 and Extraction 2, is that we become like the Left and just because a film is ‘on our side’ (i.e. isn’t woke) that we give it a free pass when it is, well a little bit boring.
PS Can we also acknowledge with sadness that the thing that made Hayley Atwell so hot (you all know what it is) has been lost with the push/pressure to make her lose weight.
If Ilsa is truly dead… like truly really unalive then Ethan has to die, not to save the world but he will die to save his friends. This won't happen until Tom Cruise is truly done with Mission Impossible. I think its the only way this franchise can end.
I miss that milf like you wouldn't believe
Sean Pertwee ….? thats Richard Roxburgh you muppet !!!! haha
I am so glad I'm not the only one who felt that way. Absolutely bummed me out.
Im glad someone finally mentioned this summer’s films being a disappointment. I actually saw a comment the other day where the person said they’re overwhelmed by all the good movies coming out this sunmer. Honestly I understand both views.
0:20 So we’re just gonna forget the most popular (action) franchise of all time? Come on.
It's interesting that just about all the comment here are either confused/disappointed by the way Ilsa was written out, or they're clinging to hopes that she's not really gone. No one seems to actually be glad she's gone, or think her exit felt satisfying. That indicates that if McQuarrie actually did in fact write Ilsa out of the franchise, and it's not a fake-out, then he really miscalculated how audiences would take this. (Here's hoping that people are correct in their theories that Ilsa's not actually gone.)
Elsa's going to come back obviously that's what I think
I don't think Ilsa died. Think about it. The whole plot is about outsmarting the Entity. And in the desert scene Ethans says to her: "To them you are dead. Stay dead". That's what she is doing until Part 2. And we never see her confirmed dead.
My theory is
Luther can't fight
Benji can't fight
Grace can't fight
So Ethan needs someone on the land for fights when he goes to retrieve that AI stuff from submarine.
So he made Ilsa disappear for later.
John woo is always messing up films
Stop the Elsa 🍆 riding it was perfectly fine… Def a big baby 👶😂
Was not a huge fan of gabriel…or the story. The action was fantastic and tome was aazing as always. Fallout is perhaps the pinacle of the series other than the original movie.
I kinda saw this coming, with the "cosing up" during some scenes between Ilsa and Ethan, and the first Death scene..
Since Rebecca Ferguson is busy with Dune sequels, Silo show, then i can understand why/if she doens´t have time for the Mission franchise.
But she is my favourite character, she fits so well, and feels like Ethans female counterparrt. I soooo hope that this is another ruse, but i dont think it is. :/
It makes me not like Grace aswell, since she flees from Ethan the entire movie, and then when she more or less fucked up and doesn´t have anywhere to run anymore.. she accepts him.
So if this is just a swap with characters, especially when she gets the same "choice" as they did.
oh well. We´ll find out i guess. Here´s hoping she is back.
Their mask machine is just as broken as McDonald’s ice cream machine
The way Ilsa's death is placed and handled, given how much she's been cared for both on and off screen before, it's really hard to think that she's really dead. After all, we met her in the Syndicate, the organization that was consisting of missing and presumes dead agents. And no matter how much I like the desert scenes on their own, they led absolutely nowhere in terms of the narrative, except for showing that Ilsa is excellent at playing dead.
In addition, there's so much retconning for both Ilsa and Ethan in this movie, and Benji and Luther were sidelined so hard, it almost makes it feel like we're watching a slightly different POV than usual, a POV that doesn't get the whole picture.
Who knows.
I'm positive shes dead I know many dont like it but it makes sense to kill her as. Lkke a few others those he fell in love with always die hence why he "killed his wife" to protect her
Funny enough, I was talking with a friend after watching MI:DRP1 (far too long a name) and commented that I thought Ethan's team felt one member light up until Ilsa arrived, and I'd been counting Grace as a pseudo-member, commenting that it would've been nice to have more of the team with both of them in it. I'd been hoping some of the past MI characters would come back (Maggie Q might be a little typecast, but Paula Patton would be worth a brief return) just to fill out the team a bit more (remember how many members there were in MI1?). Totally agree that Ilsa was one of the better characters in the entire series and her initial fight scene (with Ethan initially cuffed to the pole) was one of the best in the series, too (the bathroom fight owns, however), though I did kind of appreciate her fight in Dead Reckoning (for one, it was neat to see a sword vs. knife fight in Mission Impossible), even if it wasn't as great as it should've been (especially when it's crosscut and compared to Ethan's alley fight). Horrible as her death is, I might actually be angrier if it ends up being a fakeout (which'd be the first to happen cross MI films, though this is a special case, given it's a 2-parter).