#mi 2

mi2!ethan as the fallen angel

I was going to do a full rewatch ahead of Final Reckoning and even though its only a total of 8 movies, I am really not invested enough and there were better things to watch.

So here is my ranking based on what I remember - least favourite to favourite

8 - MI 6: Fall Out - I don't remember this at all. I think Henry Cavill was in it but can't remember whatever the plot was or any of the action sequences.

7 - MI 2 - objectively I know this is actually the worst one but Brendan Gleeson is a national treasure so I am bumping it even though I never want to watch it ever again

6 - MI 8: Final Reckoning - its fine

5 - MI 7: Dead Reckoning - also mostly fine but the entire train sequence is absolutely outstanding so it gets higher on the list

4 - MI 3 - great emotional opening sequence and really the only attempt to show any character development. And Philip Seymour Hoffman is a great baddie. But I also get that it didn't leave them with many options after so they had to reset.

3 - MI 5: Rogue Nation - Yay Rebecca Ferguson. Actually I quite enjoy this one. I can't remember what it was about but I remember it was fun.

2 - MI 1 - Definitely the best plot and a great start to the series with some iconic moments. Objectively probably the best one

So you have this decision to make the fourth film about the cost of the job and the grief that haunts the narrative established in the third film, so you hire the same actors from the third as well as some new ones, build a crew around this new central theme and now you’ve connected three and four and then you build on this to make movies five, six, and seven. And then in the eighth film you do a very elegant and artful tie back to the first so you have now completed this narrative circle of loss and growth and love, and it’s really very beautiful