Sacrifice's Franchise Of The Mission Impossible

The ‘Mission: Impossible’ franchise recently celebrated its nineteenth birthday, making this franchise almost of legal drinking age, let that sink in. This franchise has been around for almost five more years than the ‘Fast & Furious’ franchise, and yet it’s still managing to be just an incredulous and energetic as anything to ever come out of that franchise. I’m not at all dissing the ‘Fast & Furious’ franchise, it just pumped out its seventh installment and still managed to thrill me to my very core, but what I’m getting at is that, what ‘Fast Five’ did for its franchise was reinvigorate it. ‘Fast Five’ redefined what the franchise was about, no longer was it solely about cars, it became more focused on heists and bad-guys than it was on …show more content…
That first film is now iconic, and that’s why it’ll always be among my favorite ‘Mission: Impossible’ films, but that type of genre filmmaking simply doesn’t succeed at the box office anymore. Gone are the days in which your film could thrive on the suspense of silence. Modern audiences want more teeth as ‘Jurassic World’ would like to remind us, and that’s why since that first film the franchise has been gravitating more toward the action and less toward the tension. I think this new film ushers in a new era of sustainable ‘Mission: Impossible’ films, this is the ‘Fast Five’ of the ‘M:I’ …show more content…
‘Mission: Impossible III’ will always have the best villain of the franchise, rest in peace Philip Seymour Hoffman, but this film’s villain is certainly memorable, which is more than I can say for all the other villains in the franchise, even if it is because of his prestige silliness. Sean Harris’ breathy villain makes for a good match to Cruise’s Ethan Hunt, I truly felt like Hunt had met his match. The villain’s motivations are thin for most of the film, but there’s one scene in which he explains his motives and then you begin to understand his