The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 7 Review: A Devastating and Deadly Finale

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The Mission: Impossible brand is built on extreme Tom Cruise gaze, convoluted tale twists and reveals, and amazing feats. However, it doesn’t have powerful stories in it. The majority of Mission films feature scoundrel officials and poorly defined MacGuffins, which would be a grating repeat if the plots were any indication. Yet, lack of story quality does not correlate to absence of tension. The majority of the movies feature exceptional villains who force Cruise’s Ethan Hunt to perform amazing feats, which are the stunts we all adore.

Let’s take a look at the best of the worst as Mission: Impossible comes to an end ( perhaps ) with Mission: Impossible &#8211, The Final Reckoning. The villains who literally drove Ethan Hunt up a wall, into a gigantic turbine, or hang from a biplane. Point of quality, second. We’re just looking at the main bad guys here, the people who dare to match wills with Ethan Hunt, even though the series does have some fun henchmen like Paris ( Pom Klementieff ) and some stories have shadowy baddies pulling the strings ( such as duplicitous IMF director John Musgrave ( Billy Crudup ) or the Entity ).

7. Sean Ambrose ( Mission: Impossible II )

Mission: Difficult II about ended the company in its early stages. It seemed a wise move to hire Hong Kong-based director John Woo, who also has a lot of style, as did Brian De Palma, the second director. However, Woo and screenwriter Robert Towne ( a Hollywood star who co-wrote the first film ) base their account on the Alfred Hitchcock film Notorious, casting Thandiwe Newton in place of Ingrid Bergman as the untrustworthy detective who captures our hero&#8217, s center.

The mixture ended up being fatal. Woo&#8217’s dramatic approach clashed with poor characterizations, which was made especially obvious in M: I2&#8216, where the main antagonist, previous IMF agent Sean Ambrose, Dougray Scott, was played. The story of how Scott, the first people cast to play Wolverine in 2000&#8217, s X-Men, lost the part because of an on-set injury has been told time and again, overshadowing the worse insult, that he&#8217, s pretty badly used in this movie. Ambrose is meant to be Hunt &#8217, a dark twice, so much so that he appears in the movie as Cruise&#8217, his character. However, he always possesses the personality and intensity of his adversary, coming off as too frequently as a sulking man-child than anyone who may endanger Hunt, let alone the entire world.

6. Kurt Hendricks ( Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol )

Cobalt, Kurt Hendricks, is so much better in both vision and murder. Played by Swedish artist Michael Nyqvist, Hendricks is exactly the type of enemy who really concern Ethan Hunt. Dick, a real disciple in a hedonistic philosophy, wants to start a nuclear conflict between the United States and Russia. The IMF has no choice but to indulge in the kind of over-the-top action that makes the franchise but unique due to that fundamentalist belief.

The risk posed by Dick may give Ethan scaling the Birge Kalifa, but as a man, he&#8217, s a little screen. Nyqvist has nothing to do with this film other than influences, as evidenced by his numerous music roles in his native Sweden and in American films like John Wick. Hendricks never succeeds, but his minion Sabine ( Léa Seydoux ), whose personal connection to Hunt &#8217’s coworker Jane Carter ( Paula Patton ), gives her an edge.

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5. Gabriel ( Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning and The Final Reckoning )

The main antagonist of Dead Reckoning and The Final Reckoning, the agent known only as Gabriel ( Esai Morales ) is set up as Ethan Hunt &#8217, s greatest foil. Not only does he appear to have spy abilities that are even greater than those of our warrior, but he was also directly to blame for Ethan’s joining the IMF. We are informed that Gabriel killed Ethan and his partner Marie and framed him for the crime, which put him on the radar of the IMF&#8217. Worse however, Gabriel emerges as an follower of the all-powerful AI known as the Entity, giving him a driving attitude to fit Ethan&#8217, s want to save everyone.

This characterization appears to be accurate on paper. In reality, it stinks. Dead Reckoning and especially The Final Reckoning suffer from a self-mythologizing that keeps dragging the movie back into the past instead of charging forward, and Gabriel embodies that backwards impulse. Morales enjoys playing the villain role, but Gabriel’s worst sin bores the audience. In some shocking instances, Gabriel directly kills fan favorites Ilsa Faust ( Rebecca Ferguson ) and Luther Stickell ( Ving Rhames ).

4. Jim Phelps ( Mission: Impossible )

Before moving on, it’s important to be clear that Jim Phelps is a capable villain. Not a knock against Jim, but rather a testament to the strength of the other baddies that he ranks so low in this list. One of the main protagonists of the original 1960s television series ( albeit portrayed by Peter Graves instead of Jon Voight ), Jim Phelps makes Mission: Impossible into a legacy sequel, connecting the classic series to a new set of heroes.

Mission: Impossible transforms the former hero into the new villain, which is unlike most legacy sequels. At the beginning of the film, Phelps initially appears to have died during an attack that kills the majority of Hunt’s team during a mission that IMF boss Kitteridge later reveals to be a &#8220, mole hunt. &#8221, However, Phelps returns late in the film as first Ethan&#8217, s ally and then his enemy, the true traitor that Kitteridge seeks. Despite the fact that he was 57 when the movie was shot, a year younger than Cruise when Dead Reckoning was being made, he struggles a little with the stunts at the end.

3. August Walker ( Mission: Impossible – Fallout )

The mustache Henry Cavill developed for the film was the subject of the buzz right away in Fallout. Due to the fact that he could or would not shave his face for reshoots of Justice League, his director Joss Whedon had to digitally remove the stache from Cavill for the film, creating an infamously absurd looking Superman. It seemed like a petty move at the time, but once we all saw Fallout, we got it. The mustache appears incredible, and it is appropriate to continue.

The mustache is significant because it accurately describes August Walker, the character of Cavill. Described as a &#8220, blunt instrument&#8221, assigned to work with ( read: spy on ) Hunt for CIA Director Erika Sloane ( Angela Bassett ), Walker proves to be a force of nature who is just as destructive as our hero. Walker proves a credible threat to Ethan even before he&#8217 is revealed to be the malevolent John Lark, the man the IMF sought in Rogue Nation. He&#8217, is prepared to kill our hero at any moment, and he looks fantastic doing it.

2. ( Mission: Impossible III ) Owen Davian

Despite the death-defying derring-do in the Mission: Impossible franchise, it’s notable that the most terrifying moment occurs in a line of dialogue rather than one of Ethan Hunt’s deeds. When arms dealer Owen Davian wakes up to discover he&#8217, s been captured by IMF, he ignores Ethan&#8217, s questions and blithely asks some of his own: &#8220, Do you have a wife, a girlfriend? Because you already know what I’m going to do next, why? I’m going to find her and I’m going to hurt her, respectively. &#8221, It&#8217, s not so much the specific words that Davian says that send a chill down the spine. It&#8217 ;s the way that they &#8217 were re-delivered completely without passion.

Of course, Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of the greatest actors of his generation, plays Davian in this role. Hoffman &#8217, s ability to play cool and controlled ( and, in one memorable scene, play the ever-energetic Ethan Hunt disguised as Davian ) elevates the otherwise mundane J. J. Abrams-directed third film. In fact, Hoffman does a lot of the acting, which puts him in second place despite the utterly mesmerizing performance.

1. Solomon Lane ( Mission: Impossible &#8211, Rogue Nation )

Although Owen Davian may discuss killing Ethan&#8217’s loved ones, Solomon Lane actually almost almost succeeded in doing so. When sweet Benji reveals the bomb strapped to his chest, his expression of pure sorrow and terror reveals more about Lane’s capacity for evil than any of Davian’s monologues could. In fact, Lane encapsulates everything about the franchise&#8217, s past baddies, perfecting everything they tried to do. He has Gabriel and Ambrose’s espionage skills, Davian’s quiet menace, and Hendricks ‘ twisted worldview. By the time he sends a bomb to Ethan’s estranged wife Julia Meade ( Michelle Monaghan ), Lane even develops a personal animosity like Phelps.

Much of the credit goes to Sean Harris, who uses his raspy voice and dark eyes to enhance the malevolence. Cruise&#8217, who has the gift of being sincere on camera, staring out of the screen with yearning blue eyes and a furrowed brow, is responsible for so much of the Mission: Impossible franchise. The exact opposite happens in Harris ‘ eyes. When he looks out from the screen, we see pools of blackness, drowning us in nothingness. If Hunt is the living manifestation of nihilism, as IMF Director Alan Hunley ( Alec Baldwin ) so famously put it, &#8220, the living manifestation of destiny, &#8221, then Lane is the opposite.

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