I HATE how people say MI4 is the best one…its the WORST!
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peter_t_2k3 — 10 years ago(November 02, 2015 04:43 PM)
After finally watching 4 I find it a great improvement over 3.
3 didn't seem to do to we'll with the critics. It's been a while since I've seen it but I found it too action packed. As the op mentioned I do find it like a Michael bay film. The problem with Michael bay is he throws too much action at the screen. The way the camera moves, the editing etc. Just didn't do it for me.
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MurphAndTheMagicTones — 9 years ago(May 11, 2016 11:08 AM)
The only thing I know for certain is that MI2 was the worst one. The stunts in there weren't anything we couldn't have gotten from another director. I mean, the fight between Bond and Alec Trevelyan in Goldeneye was more intense. MI2 was all surface and no substance at all. Typical John Woo filming. (As they said in Honest Trailers, you never go the full Woo.) But after that, a good argument can be made for any of the other four movies to work as the best one.
For myself, I'll go with the first one as best and put III, IV, and V in the middle. The first one felt more like a great melding of the original series set in the modern day. I'd call it the best movie adapted from a TV show not named The Fugitive. III felt a bit underwhelming (and I agree Hoffman was underutilized), IV was fun to watch but not really that tense, and V I think made itself far too complex for what was a simple plotline of getting terrorist accounts (I've seen that plot in fanfic stories).
"Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to exit the doughnut!"Nick Fury,
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Melton1 — 2 months ago(January 04, 2026 05:40 AM)
Yeah, Ghost Prot is one of the weaker ones. It has great stunts (the Burj Khalifa climb is a series highlight), good comedy and the failing equipment motif is genius… but it has a terribly weak villain and a dull made-up-as-they-went-along plot.
It doesn’t hold together well and never picks up momentum, it just dazzles you every now and then with an impressive action scene.
By contrast, 3 had a chilling villain in Philip Seymour Fucking Hoffman and a story which deployed Hitchcockian suspense techniques to constantly taunt the viewer’s expectations.
Of the first 6 films, all of which were good, this is the worst.
7 and 8 are in their own category as misguided, bloated, 3-hour mess-fests that, despite the odd superb action sequence, are flat out
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Paul P. Powell — 2 months ago(January 04, 2026 06:18 AM)
Are you openly admitting you watch sequel movies?
(I ask this because you placed the numeral, '4' in the subject-line
of your post's header)
Is the film you're referring to, the 'fourth' installment in some kind of franchise?
So this means you've sat down and watched I, II, and III of whatever series this is?
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