Tom Cruise Mission Impossible Series, Best to Worst and Why

[Mr. Laser Beam]

If Hollywood decided every set piece and stunt based on pragmatic and practical purposes, there would be a lot less movies.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Well, yeah. Film productions employ a lot of people.

 

[Garak]

All of which can be easily faked or safely and less expensively done by professionals. I'm still not buying this does-his-own-stunts myth Paramount's been force-feeding us since at least 2000. Cruise is an excellent runner from VANILLA SKY on, but running's not a substitute for acting.

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[CorporalClegg]

It's not his fault. He can't handle the truth.

 

[Timby]

Tom Cruise's ego seems to be limited to inventing new ways he can show off by risking his life with crazy stunts. In other respects, I gather that he's entirely professional and dedicated and good to work with and supportive of his colleagues, regardless of what he's like in his personal life.

The man is insane. He literally had production of Top Gun: Maverick shut down because he wanted to learn how to actually fly a fighter jet.

And Ghost Protocol is the only one of the movies I ever care to rewatch. Fallout was pretty good, I suppose, but I'm just not a huge fan of McQuarrie's directing, he very rarely comes up with good compositions. Rogue Nation bored me to tears.

M:I-2 is a lot of fun when I'm high, though, because it's just so incredibly silly.

 

[Kor]

It's been a while since I watched any of them aside from Fallout when it was released, so let me think...

#2 is pretty much on the bottom of my list for various reasons already mentioned in this thread. Whenever I do a re-watch of the movie series, I skip that one. I think the only other John Woo movie I've seen was Paycheck, and I didn't like that one either.

I like MI #1, except that Jim Phelps never seemed like the same Jim Phelps from the original series. It's perfectly understandable that Peter Graves didn't want to participate, but if they couldn't get him, then they should have just made a completely new character (or maybe as an easter egg, bring back some guest character from the original). Unlike others, I am not against the concept of the Phelps character turning against IMF. But this guy just didn't seem like Phelps at all.

To me, #3 onward feels like a separate arc of its own. #3 is a solid setup for the rest, but I find GP, RN and FO a little more entertaining to watch (all three about equally).

So maybe I would rank these all as follows:
#1
GP,RN,FO
#3 slightly below
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Kor

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I like MI #1, except that Jim Phelps never seemed like the same Jim Phelps from the original series.

He wasn't.

I mean, there's no way the Cruise films can possibly be actual sequels to the series. Like nuBSG - they're reboots. So in a very real sense, it is a different Jim Phelps.

Although that doesn't make it any less pathetic what the first film did to him.