Mission Impossible-The Final Reckoning (May 23, 2025)

[Jorge]

3 is not that good, IMO. This is better than 3.

[Jorge]

1 basically sucks

You have two of the worst ones at the top of your list!

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Anders]

Don't think there is a lot to divide the top movies, in star ratings I rate them about the same. But I'll try a ranked list:

5 (Rogue Nation)
4 (Ghost Protocol)
1
6 (Fallout)
3
2

Not seen the new one yet.

[Anders]

The first one seems the most real or realistic. It's not perfect, but I wish they had gone a little more in that direction, than what they did. The sixth one was very well made, and entertaining as an action and thrilling spectacle, but it all became a bit too much to top the ranking (or achieve a top rating from me).

[Jorge]

I think the most "realistic" one is 3, and that is part of why I'm not much into it. Plus the sloppy action and weird saturated look and color correction. PSH is an absolute highlight though.

1 doesn't feel so realistic. It's very corny and filled with huge eyerolly moments. Upon rewatching them all this year I even found myself enjoying 2 more than 1

6 is a masterpiece for me

[Anders]

I love a good realistic spy movie, but over the top spy movies have always been more popular (James Bond, MI).

[Ello Sailor]

Upon rewatching them all this year I even found myself enjoying 2 more than 1

wtf

[Ello Sailor]

This is BULLSHIT

[The Argonaut]

Upon rewatching them all this year I even found myself enjoying 2 more than 1

wtf

He's right, ello. Search your heart and you shall see

[BurtReynolds]

Upon rewatching them all this year I even found myself enjoying 2 more than 1

wtf

He's right, ello. Search your heart and you shall see

No close your heart. Chain it up tightly so that the sickness can't touch you.

[Anders]

1 is without a shadow of a doubt, better than 2.

[Farmer John]

I also "enjoyed" rewatching 2, but I'd still put it very solidly at the bottom of the rankings.

I really love 3 and think it's one of the best. It's the most deadly serious one, and I'm glad they didn't stick with that tone for the rest of the franchise. But there's also some playfulness to the proceedings. That whole sequence at the Vatican is a ton of fun.

1. Fallout
2. Mission: Impossible III
3. Dead Reckoning Pt. 1
4. Ghost Protocol
5. Rogue Nation
6. Mission: Impossible
7. Mission: Impossible II

[Jorge]

Look, I don't stand super firm on this 2 > 1 thing. 2 has a ton of problems. But Ethan Hunt as a motorcycle kung-fu Christ figure leads to some hilarious, over-the-top moments, and I just feel like sticking up for it sometimes

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[BurtReynolds]

eh I dont like either one tbh

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Farmer John]

The first three all feel like outliers in their own way. It wasn't until the 4th one when the franchise started to settle in to what it would become.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.