WinstonNoCGI

In the beginning, the movie was mostly just a recap and a collage of clips of all the Mission Impossible movies they did before. That was quite a boring part. I didn't want to be a witness of their say farewell. If they wanted me to moan about the 35 years that have past, they'd better let me feel it by myself.

Then, the movie picked up pace. The real(!) diving and air plane scenes had been a true pleasure to watch. I was very emotional and thrilled by Tom Cruise action scenes and felt a deep respect for the hassle he went through for making this a real-life, none-CGI experience. For me, he is a multi talented artist.

One more thing that really bugged me was the bad, boring musical score. - This was the final part of a great series of movies. The production conveyed the intention to celebrate 35 years of Mission Impossible movies. And all the composer as able to provide has been 120 minutes of boring synthesizer pads? Gee ... where is Alan Silvestri when you need him?!? They didn't have the budget to emply a real symphonic orchestra? And they didn't have the budget to employ a talented arranger? All I can say about the musical score: Don't buy, don't stream! Ain't worth it. The boredom of the musical score ruined many of the scenes.

I was very disappointed with this film:

• It lacked style and lacked exciting camerawork or lighting.

• The German-dubbed film suffered from poor German dubbing. The men in the film were smokers, but the voice actors were non-smokers. Their voices were too high-pitched and didn't sound harsh. The voice actors tried to imitate their weak voices by mumbling. I could hardly bear it. The same thing happened with older actresses. Their German voices were also too high and young.

• Poor musical score. An absolute minimum of orchestration and notation was composed. The musical score conveyed no emotion, it was boring, and useless.

• Bad story, boring editing.

A very nice movie depicting both, the beauty and the challenges, of living in a village far away from the big cities, with a population facing and fighting extinction for their adolescents leaving the village, savouring the achievements of larger infrastructures.

The plot with all its little stories and facets is quite moving. In its essence, as I perceived it, it depicts the difference between an ample, anonymous, misanthropic life in a large city compared to the caring, personal, yet bleak life in a small village. People like me, living in both worlds, feel at home and empathize with both the actors and the story itself.

Particularly in the beginning of the plot, the movie has some little funny moments resulting from differences and misunderstandings between living in the city and living in a village.

The closing credits disclosed a very intriguing feature: most of the actors in the movie weren't actual actors: They were in fact villagers, more or less depicting themselves. Kudos! And my deep and honest respect for the great acting in the movie.

There's one final translation thing I'd like to mention: I watched the movie in German with German dubbing. Almost all of the supporting characters have been dubbed by what would regard as being dabblers. The voices didn't match the characters and pronunciation was dreary. These voices were poorly selected and pulled me out of the illusion.