{"id":12207,"date":"2017-06-25T20:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12207"},"modified":"2017-06-25T20:12:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T19:12:44","slug":"film-blogathon-0517-mi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12207","title":{"rendered":"Film Blogathon 05\/17: M:I-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12208\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12208\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MI-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"M:I-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MI-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MI-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MI-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MI-2-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MI-2-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M:I-2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mission Impossible 2 (An Accent Too Far)<\/p>\n<p>M:I-2 is an odd film which features an <del>impossible<\/del> implausible plot and:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An arch baddie with a bad Scottish accent<\/li>\n<li>A sub baddie with a bad Australian accent<\/li>\n<li>A goodie with a bad Australian accent, and<\/li>\n<li>A goodie with a bad English accent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However the film is jammed full of hi-tech goodies such as:<br \/>\nThose rubberish face-masks that let the wearer be someone else, even though they&#8217;re a different height and a completely different build<br \/>\nTom Cruise&#8217;s Triumph Speed Triple having an auto-rear-tyre-change function, that somehow flips the rear tyre from slicks to roads, to cross-country and back to roads again, all in the space of one fast pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>Yet even all of these technological marvels fail to lift MI: 2 out of the bathtub of mediocrity that it fell in to, in an early scene in Cadiz.<\/p>\n<p>And the predictably obvious &#8216;fight to the death&#8217; that Mr Cruise has with the arch baddie is just dull.<\/p>\n<p>Actually no, it isn&#8217;t just dull.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s tiresomely dull.<\/p>\n<p>So is the soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what happened to MI: 2, but somewhere along the way, probably in a workshop deep within the creative phase, the film got out of control, like a rampaging bull in a shop in the middle of China.<\/p>\n<p>M:I-2 should have been put to sleep, humanely.<\/p>\n<p>But instead they went ahead and finished it.<\/p>\n<p>I wish they hadn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>And I watched it.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I hadn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s rubbish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission Impossible 2 (An Accent Too Far) M:I-2 is an odd film which features an impossible implausible plot and: An arch baddie with a bad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}