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kleinbl00 · 4514 days ago · link · · parent · post: Movie audiences shrink below post-Sept. 11 level
I found MI1 to be ponderous but fun and stopped watching MI2 half-way through. Haven't seen MI3.
MI4 is some of the most fun I've had in a movie theater in years. It's pitch-perfect, pretty much exactly what you'd expect if the guy who wrote IRON GIANT and THE INCREDIBLES were given the task of reviving a musty cold-war icon. I would say it falls squarely between BOURNE IDENTITY and MEN IN BLACK. The movie is decidedly self-conscious about the inherent silliness of the "Impossible Mission Force" and then winks at you, smiles, and says "c'mon, it'll be more fun if you play along. Here, I'll make it easy for you" and then proceeds to entertain the fuck out of you for two and a half hours.