What’s the story about?
Omnipotent AI tries to take over the world via manipulating people into doing its bidding, I thought the story and writing was pretty weak but worth it for the last like 45 mins which blows the rest of the movie out of the water IMO
This is the first time anyone has even mentioned the plot, none of the advertising material does.
Well the last time plot mattered was when Brian De Palms was directing which was a while ago. I’m not complaining though, still like the franchise (apart from one entry) and enjoyed this one also.
Because it’s barely a concern in the movie. It’s little more than a Macguffin to raise the stakes. That’s honestly my biggest problem with it. They set up this compelling concept of an AI manipulating information and then the most they ever do with it is have it hijack a walkie talkie. I loved how the intelligence agencies were all switching everything to analogue, but none of that ever really makes any difference to the story at all.
$80 mil in 5 days isn’t great, is it?
They said Indiana Jones was a flop and it did…
Day 1 - $23,682,998
Day 2 - $18,584,093
Day 3 - $18,101,010
Day 4 - $11,793,861
Day 5 - $11,698,989
5 Days - $83,860,951Source: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl2776598017/?ref_=bo_we_table_2
Both Dial of Destiny and Dead Reckoning had similar budgets (around $300M) and similar opening weekends (around $80M). But the reviews and audience reactions have been better for Mission Impossible. This suggests the movie will have longer legs than Indiana Jones. Undoubtedly Paramount is hoping that Dead Reckoning’s trajectory will be more like Top Gun Maverick’s (staggering) 5.66 multiplier and less like (say) Quantumania’s 2.02 multiplier.
edit: The article also mentions that the global opening weekend box office numbers for Mission Impossible are a lot better than the numbers for Indiana Jones, at $235M (ie $80M domestic + $155M overseas) vs $130M (ie ~$85M domestic + only about $45M overseas). That said, it’s difficult to compare overseas numbers without a detailed breakdown of which markets each movie opened in. Mission Impossible may have played in more countries its first few days than Indiana Jones did.
I think we’ve gotten too used to Marvel $100M opening weekends
I guess when your movie costs $300M you better have a $100M opening…
