I really enjoyed the latest Mission:Impossible movie, but there was one oversight that is both comical and dumb. So dumb, I probably shouldn’t even mention it, but it involves boobs, so here goes.
There is a scene when Hayley Atwell has a mask on and is pretending to be Vanessa Kirby. What bothers me is — Atwell’s rack is significantly bigger than Kirby’s and there’s no way anyone — especially a man — who knew Kirby’s character would accept that Kirby ‘s bosom had suddenly and inexplicably ballooned.
They would notice instantly that something was awry, even if the high tech mask was perfect. Anyway. It’s a very, very dumb quibble. The movie was overall really good and I really enjoyed it.
I’m at a loss to describe the political goals of the “Entity” that is the bad guy in the latest Mission:Impossible movie. And I think that’s the point. The point is for the movie to be so convoluted and conflated in its political good and evil that both sides think the other side is the bad guy.
They talk about “patriots” in what is essentially the deep state of the government. So…are they talking about the Entity wanting to purge MAGA people from the government or are they talking about the Entity purging the “deep state” from the government?
It’s all very unclear.
It really could mean either one. Which, like I said, is the point.
They want everything to be so convoluted that neither side has any reason to hate the aims of the movie one way or another. It’s very noticable if you’ve paid any attention to politics in the last, I don’t know, decade.
I really enjoyed Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1, but it was hilarious how sexless it was. There was just no sex — at all — in the movie. There were a few coy crotch shots of Hayley Atwell (fully clothed) as she struggled to get from one part of a train to another.
ALSO there was a point the movie where there SHOULD have been a sex scene….and…nothing. We went from canoodling to just a scene of people gyrating around at a party. It’s very strange. I mean, you have Rachel Ferguson who has a simmering sexuality that gives you the sense that she’s always down to fuck — in real life! — and….nothing.
I have to note how sexxy Ms. Ferguson is. The woman has no game face and she always seems just about to ask if you want to sleep with her. She’s gorgeous and deserves some sort of Body Heat-type erotic thriller to be in. But in this Mission: Impossible movie…nothing. Totally sexless. No T and no A in regards to Ms. Ferguson.
Ugh. What is wrong with us?
I suppose that it’s at least possible that once it becomes a lot more difficult to for young people to see porn online that maybe, just maybe we might see more sex in Hollywood movies. But, of course, there is a very narrow window of opportunity — AI generated movies will soon enough make the very notion of human-generated recorded media rather quaint and moot.
But I do like the latest Mission: Impossible movie. It’s really good, despite the lack of sex. The third act is very entertaining.
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