No, Ethan Hunt doesn't even come close to Bourne, McCall or Wick. Tom Cruise sucked as an MI agent just as he sucked as Jack Reacher. He's 5'7" POS that if one actually witnessed his action scenes in person instead of the jacked up hollywood version they could clearly see how implausible his action scenes were. As much as I dislike him, I'll give him props for his acting skills, but as an action hero? He blows chunks all over the room.
Slick, Top notch , fast paced action ..unparalleled even after years have passed after these movies were released.....just imagine.....even now I am watching these action scenes
I'd like to throw in Jason Statham's character as the Transporter, or his role from the Mechanic. You know what, any Jason Statham role would work in this collaboration too.
It's shaky during the fights because the choreography was done with the camera in the mix of the action, so the camera op had to learn the fight scenes too.
This is a movie, so there is a difference between physical aerobic conditioning, conditioning a body part such as a martial arts fighter shin kicking posts, and bring assaulted or going through the things in the movie. I'm the real Jason Bourne, I'm still active but closing out my mission, and I'm testifying soon in a court case. I can explain why the CIA had to make the first movie and I've never been in the CIA, I just enjoy screwing them constantly. I have a really funny story if how I set them and the FBI in Portland. I'm hoping to use that one because it's hilarious. I'm headed to court tomorrow, FBI Friday. They still don't know my name, that's the biggest switch from real life. I'm a nice guy, most of the people that know it's me are polite about it, some ask a question or two. Some people think if they are near me they might be harmed. That's not really true, kind of. But, I do have Immunity right now, and I'm a Foreign National and not a US Citizen and that helped me stay hidden.
"Master of the Genre, noone even comes close." Except for other clean cut American Operatives who insist on shaving every day, wearing a completely "American" Haircut and steadfastly REFUSING to wear any kind of hat on the streets of Paris! ***Of course, these "one man army" movies arent meant to be realistic, just entertainment.
Same as the state of war shall be those incoming days, publicly declared to damn Albania by our Kyriakos Mittzotakis, Kostas Karamanlis, Papanikolau, Somerwille, Bilurakis, Papandreu, Onazis, Papadopulo etc
I fukn HATE this Shaky-Cam, Quick-Cut fight scene BS that the Bourne series has made so popular. It manufactures a false tension in the action sequences, rather than put forth any actual effort to create sustained action in the fight choreography that creates its own tension. It's for lazy actors who don't want to learn and then have to perform a lengthy fight(dance) sequence, instead just filming short snippets of each move and leaving it to the editor to make it look like one contiguous, and uninterrupted fight sequence. Lazy actors and lazy directors do this because it's cheap and easy to shoot action sequences this way as it requires little actual effort on set while filming. The "Fix It In Post" mentality for some actors and film makers who think their time isn't worth the effort is disgusting.
