My next Mission: Impossible countdown covers an element of these movies that borders on problematic: the treatment of the women characters.
The series has a bad habit of introducing a new woman (sometimes a love interest, always a brunette) only to ditch her by the next movie, either through death or by simply not referencing her again. There are some exceptions, which I’ll get to.
So let me kick off my ranking of the WOMEN of Mission: Impossible.
The next category I’ll rank from the Mission: Impossible film series is SET PIECES.
Almost every M:I film has a major sequence (sometimes more than one) in which the team works together, using fancy tech and their own ingenuity, to pull off a seemingly, yes, impossible mission.
The scenes I’m considering don’t include car or motorcycle chases, fistfights, or standalone stunts. They have to involve a coordinated effort by multiple team members to misdirect and deceive. They are what separates the IMF from other world-saving teams.
The eighth and (presumably) final installment of Tom Cruise’s excellent Mission: Impossible series comes to theaters next week, capping off a 30-year run of breathtaking action, shrewd spycraft, and rubber face masks.
Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning will find a now 62-year-old Cruise still hanging off of airplanes and running faster than Usain Bolt. For three decades, he has defied time and the limitations of the human body to bring big-screen entertainment to the masses — he’s the lead ambassador of Movie Magic.
The Beatles topped the Billboard Hot 100 the week of May 18, 1965, with ‘Ticket to Ride,’ their eighth #1 on the chart and second of 1965.
In second that week was Herman’s Hermits’ ‘Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter,’ featured a couple of weeks ago when it was at #1. How many acts saw themselves kicked out, or kept out, of the top spot by The Beatles?
Throwing back to the week of May 17, 1955, we find a couple of repeats atop the Billboard chart in Perez Pablo’s ‘Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White‘ and Georgia Gibbs’ ‘Dance With Me Henry (Wallflower).’
In the #3 spot that week was Les Baxter’s version of ‘Unchained Melody,’ a short instrumental take with choral accompaniment. This is one of three versions of the song that bounced around the top ten in 1955 — the other two were by Al Hibbler and Roy Hamilton.
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