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A peach of a movie. Thoroughly entertaining, full of action as usual, yet the tension built up is unusual. There were some scenes when I could hear the silence so loud: nothing. No noise whatsoever. Total silence. That was the scene in the Russian submarine when everything went just mute. Obviously, it is a farewell to Tom Cruise as Ethan, rightly so, as he is not getting any younger. No one does. He looks weary, sometimes even tired of it. The story itself, however, keeps you on the edge of your seat constantly. I think (it is arguably) the best Mission: Impossible ever made. My only regret is that there has not been a successor named.

Uhh. This is really, really bad. If I thought that John Wick 2 or 3 were the worst movies ever made, I was wrong. This one goes even further down. I don't know where the bottom of these kinds of extremely horrible movies is, one worse than the other, just gore, and gore, and gore. Utterly disappointing, this one is. It engages 2 % of your brain cells and 98 % of your anger, rage, or whatever. I would say, what a shame for Tom Hardy, but I am way past that. He has been collaborating with this kind of BS for a decade now. There are no actors here, hence no acting: just people taking part in meaningless, uncontrolled violence depicted in a movie, intended to entertain us - me. It does not. It made me angry. 3 out of 10 is a fairly generous rating.

I don't know if there will be another Indiana Jones movie in the future, but my educated guess is that there will be. Harrison Ford most probably won't be around by then, as he is pushing his 80s. This feature, however, is a nice and, quite frankly, spectacular swansong to him and the original series. During its lifespan, I think, three of the five are outstanding: obviously the first, then the third, and this, the fifth.

The directing is outrageously good: you can't even come off the edge of your seat for like 15 minutes in the opening, and then it just gets better and better. For those who complain about the script, I'd just say, go on, write better. The story is captivating, fairly good, and has some twists you could not anticipate. Well, apart from Indy won in the end, that is. I do not agree with people who say the casting was bad. Not at all. I reckon Phoebe Waller-Bridge was an excellent choice, a fresh air, injecting something new with her excellent acting into the project. Mads Mikkelsen, well, he is from another planet. I should also mention the 'boy' Ethann Isidore, who plays somehow effortlessly. All of them are good cast choices. All in all, in my humble opinion, it is a really, really good movie. The siege of Syracuse blew me away.