{"id":9128,"date":"2024-02-29T20:16:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T02:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=9128"},"modified":"2024-02-29T20:16:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T02:16:19","slug":"mission-impossible-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=9128","title":{"rendered":"Mission: Impossible – Fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Another few weeks, another new Mission Impossible movie. And boy are these things getting more and more serialized!<\/p>\n

Fallout<\/a> concerns itself with all the[1], ahem, consequences<\/em> of cutting the head off the Syndicate serpent in the prior film<\/a>. You see, all the employees left adrift were themselves well-trained spies, so they just kept on keeping on, and now Ethan Hunt and his team have to secure a few loose nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

Blah blah action-cakes and chases and things, but here’s what I found most interesting about this movie after you cut past the (at this point) recycled world-in-danger plots and revenge plots and double crosses and explosions and all: Tom Cruise isn’t smirking his way through each threat anymore. I’m not sure if it’s that he’s older, or that Ethan is older[2], or that the writers want me to buy that there’s more on the line than there used to be, despite prior plots centering on a highly transmissible and extremely deadly synthetic virus and on global thermonuclear war, and Ethan not having all the answers with a snap of his fingers is the way they thought of.<\/p>\n

Whatever it is, I liked seeing them have to work for it this time.<\/p>\n

[1] oh hey, I just got the double entendre
\n[2] Yes yes, Tom = Ethan, but I really do think there’s a meaningful distinction to be drawn between the two possibilities. Tom being older is about him also having a more realistic world view and admitting that all of these things shouldn’t come so easily as they do, even in a fantasy action world. Ethan being older is about his growing awareness of his own mortality in a body that is beginning to run out of steam a little faster than it used to, as well as his growing awareness that nobody can maintain a win streak forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another few weeks, another new Mission Impossible movie. And boy are these things getting more and more serialized! Fallout concerns itself with all the[1], ahem, consequences of cutting the head off the Syndicate serpent in the prior film. You see, all the employees left adrift were themselves well-trained spies, so they just kept on keeping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[464,1348,513],"class_list":["post-9128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-action","tag-paramount","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9128"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9133,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128\/revisions\/9133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}