After five years of waiting, the time has finally come: Mission: Impossible 7 – Dead Reckoning Part One starts in cinemas and puts Tom Cruise in danger several times. As IMF agent Ethan Hunt, he runs across the rooftops of an airport, through the streets of Venice and through the carriages of a train. One of the best action sequences is one Car chase through Rome.
Wait, a car chase in Rome? Didn’t we just see that in the cinema? Just a few weeks ago, another Hollywood film made a stop in the Eternal City – and we’re not talking about Book Club – A New Chapter. No, Vin Diesel and his Fast & Furious family were guests in Rome.
Despite the rolling bomb in Rome: Against Tom Cruise and Mission: Impossible 7 Vin Diesel has no chance
In Fast & Furious 10, Dom Toretto, played by Diesel, races with his crew through the winding streets of Rome trying to stop a bomb that has been dropped like the giant stone ball rolls through the Italian metropolis at the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The destination: the Vatican, which Ethan Hunt visited 17 years ago in Mission: Impossible 3.
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Fast & Furious 10
The Mission: Impossible series has quite a bit more Rome experience than Fast & Furious. This also underpins the central chase in the seventh part, which unfolds in several stages, and the action competition effortlessly overshadows. Even the prospect of an explosion that shakes the city’s foundations can’t match the yellow Fiat 500 that Cruise maneuvers through the narrow streets.
However, the Rome sequences in Fast & Furious 10 and Mission: Impossible 7 are quite similar. Cars are the main means of transportation and the city, with its many stairs and hills, turns into an obstacle park where every scratch on the stone wall is an obstacle Damage of historic proportions can be feared. Not to mention the countless passers-by who unsuspectingly enjoy the sun.
In other words, Rome is the perfect setting for a car chase. Any ill-considered move promises a certain amount of destruction and thrill. However, Fast & Furious treats the city like a rolling bomb: with indifference. Sooner or later everything disappears under squishy CGI layers and in the chaos of monotonous action where spectacle is defined only by size.
Mission: Impossible 7 gives us a thousand reasons to lose our minds with the action
In Mission: Impossible 7, on the other hand, you can feel the sliding over the physical cobblestones. Director Christopher McQuarrie designs his action scenes with a remarkable wealth of detail that allows us to understand every single movement. Especially when Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and newcomer Grace (Hayley Atwell) act as odd duo in handcuffs fight for the takeover of the tax.
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Mission: Impossible 7 – Dead Reckoning Part One
Where Fast & Furious bangs their heads through the action and after a few minutes can’t find a way to build on what’s being shown, McQuarrie puts his characters first numerous obstacles get in the way before “the action” in the traditional sense even gets going. In the end, the change of controls between Grace and Hunt is more exciting than a top-speed drift.
Fast & Furious 10 stubbornly smashes down a one-way street, relying on Dom’s bumpers to get everything out of the way. Mission: Impossible 7 tells against it many little stories, which combine into one big action sequence. McQuarrie prefers to lure his characters into an ambushinstead of chasing them around town in godmode like Vin Diesel and co.
Mission: Impossible 7 counters the empty action images of Fast & Furious 10 with incredible detail
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Mission: Impossible 7’s trick is that the movie is nerve-wracking and playful at the same time. McQuarrie’s richness of detail brings variety to the action and challenges us to think into every tricky situation. Sometimes Hunt solves a problem with cunning, sometimes he gets away with luck. And once he gets tied to a steering wheel by Grace while the subway races straight at him.
At this point we are fully involved in the action. We have a feeling for characters, cars and environment. Every punch, every kick has an echo in the film. Tires squeak, sheet metal rattles and sparks fly.
Mission: Impossible 7 has been running since July 13, 2023 in German cinemas.
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