#*This message does not apply to MI 2 which was so bad canon retconned it & thus doesn’t count

[ziracona]

The thing people don’t understand is that Mission Impossible is unequivocally one of the best franchises just ever.

You think it’s just a popcorn action flick if you haven’t seen them but you’re so wrong; it’s a found family of the best people ever, amazing writing and dialogue and characterization, full realization and development, and amazing execution for a character-centric spy series that absolutely dazzles on the stunts. The cast is better developed and written than most full length /shows/ with 29x the runtime. Ethan is introduced as a baby having the worst day humanly possible at like age 20 and then it just gets worse until he snaps and is like “Fuck you im going to win I don’t give a fuck you killed everyone I love infucking hate you you betrayed us I fucking hate you so much you’re awful and you need to go down” and straps a hellicopter to a bullet train he’s /on/ as it goes into a tunnel. Then literally smacks a bomb to its windshield while making eye contact w the person who ruined his life. Fucking love that funky little man; there’s literally /nothing/ he won’t put himself through to protect other people. Literally the only reason Ethan Hunt ever survives period is he does the wildest balls to the wall shit you ever saw and /God/ goes “Oh worm? 👀” Ilsa is /the/ best written blockbuster fighty lady I’ve ever saw. Her character intro in Rogue Nation alone *cheffs kiss* MI /invented/ “Put on a Cruise Ship”—the much better sister trope to “Put on a Bus,” where instead of sending them away, a character written out of their previous role is sent to personal fulfillment, happiness, growth, and still loves and is connected to everyone from before.

PLUS you have a great cast, incredible comedy moments, and the added horror of watching Tom Cruise actually do shit like hang off the Burj Khalifa for real, or hold his breath for six minutes, or halo jump, and you cry because not even the people who /built/ the Burj Khalifa should have ever been on the outside of that thing it’s fucking BIG. If the item is high enough you can fall and recite a whole Shakespeare monologue before you hit the ground it’s too fucking high. You can watch Tom Cruise break ribs in real time. Ethan runs like a man /going/ somewhere that alone. Never seen someone I was so sure I could never outrun. The whole Russian spy enemy-to-bro in Ghost Protocol, Carter’s whole getting the tragically fridged love interest tough spy character as a lady. MI3 is like a Romance I love and I don’t even fucking like Romance as a genre. But I cry. Fuckinnnnn GOOD movies. Ethan’s always ping-ponging between kicking ass and getting his ass kicked someone help him, but the only person qualified at all is Luther the Team Mom and Ethan sadly can’t be stopped. It’s so cute. Ethan gets traumatized at age 20 and then is like “I LOVE my friends and would never hurt them” but as a still really effective spy and the weird dichotomy there. He’s so good. Man drinks respect women juice too; never loved a man like I love Ethan Hunt. And Benji, Brandt, Luther, Ilsa, and Julia are all so good. The lack of a need to do /anything/ to up the ante or make it darker or lighter and instead just strict adherence to the story they want to tell? Benji Dunn alone??? The Vibes the family of spies has?? It’s just—It’s so good I don’t have words. I got dragged to MI Rogue Nation in theaters and it was the first I ever saw and I was expecting it to just be American James Bond, but instead I got a thoughtful, brilliant, wonderful work of art

#watched Rogue Nation on my flight lol #anyway #Mission impossible #*This message does not apply to MI 2 which was so bad canon retconned it & thus doesn’t count #mission impossible 3 #mission impossible ghost protocol #mission impossible rogue nation #mission impossible fallout