Alias meets Tom Cruise
I still have about 3 papers to write, something around 30 pages maybe. And what do I do? I go to the movies, of course! But let's get right to it.Mission Impossible. I usually avoid spy movies, since I have noooo patience whatsoever for poisoning pens, expensive remote control jaguars and I have even less patience when it is Tom Cruise jumping off a building that is 160 meters high, and I have to pretend that that could actually happen, and that Tom Cruise would be able to do that anyway. And somehow, even though it is Tom Cruise, I liked it. Why? J. J. Abrams. And Philip Seymour Hoffman.
J. J. Abrams makes you forget the couch jumping Tom Cruise in the first scene. It is so shocking, and Cruise is acting so incredibly well that his stupidities over the last year just go away. Eventually they come back to you, but that first scene was essential. Besides that, he just keeps you focused on the film: the twists, the explosions, it is almost a longer and more masculine version of Alias. He even gets the nerdy but essential computer geek in the mix, just like Marshall is always there to back Sidney up (Alias reference here). And of course, he tries to bring Felicity back to life, but that was just too much. Seeing that girl yelling at Tom Cruise asking for a gun just doesn't work. But he tries. And he is the best thing that happened to the film. He gives it life and creativity. He gives it dialogue, he puts weird jokes where they shouldn't be. And that breaks the tension, which makes this easier to watch than Lost. He makes the movie what it is, with a little less gadgets than normal (ok, the mask is still wrong. they did it before and it's just.. just plain weird).
Which brings me to the second best thing: Philip Seymour Hoffman. He is goooooood!!! He is so cold and so careless, you just don't know what to do with him! It is, for one of the first times, a good villain. Cold, cold, cold. After all the twiches and weird obssessive moes he did in Capote, he is this person that doesn't even move a muscle on his face, he just... stares. Kind of gets ruined when they start getting physically violent because, come on, it's still Capote trying to beat up Tom Cruise. But ok, i'll let that go and just focus on the good scenes he has.
So, M:I 3, in a very unexpected way, turns out quite nice. And I hand it all to J. J. Abrams, because come on, it isn't anyone that can make you watch Tom Cruise for 2 hours and not die. Or not wish he dies in every car that explodes in the movie.
And that's it. 2 hours of film, plus 30 minutes of writing this..... and the papers are still here to be written. So, see u later
beijos
And that's it. 2 hours of film, plus 30 minutes of writing this..... and the papers are still here to be written. So, see u later
beijos
posted by Julia Moreira Leite @ 1:10 PM
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