r/Mission_Impossible

One thing I always loved about MI3 was that the Rabbit's Foot was never explained. Benji's monologue describing it as an "anti-God" weapon capable of ending the world made it feel more intimidating and threatening seen as you didn't know what it could do and the only real idea was the biohazard logo on the rabbits foot itself which I thought mean't it was gonna be some badass nuclear weapon that as Benji said "would lay waste to anything".

Now, I know some people aren't fans of J.J. Abrams' "mystery box" approach, but I actually think it worked perfectly here as not everything needs to be explained, and at least in my opinion the Rabbit's Foot was far more compelling because it was left to the audience's imagination.

Then The Final Reckoning tried to be clever by tying all the films together and revealing that it was essentially just liquid code (or whatever the explanation was) and that completely stripped away the mystery and made it far less interesting. The Rabbit's Foot was much more effective as an unknown, world-ending MacGuffin than something that was eventually given a concrete explanation.

Have been wanting to watch something like this for a while, any suggestions are appreciated.

I’d say please answer honestly, but I’m on Reddit. I can’t see II as anything other than the worst, a blip that shouldn’t exist and doesn’t fit with the other movies.

Edit: Thanks for all of the responses! I watched the movies back to back over a couple of weeks every couple of years, and I have seen every one of them during their theatrical release (because I’m getting old). These responses have given me something to consider when I rewatch it again.

My grandpa's brother died at the age of 59 in 2007 and was a huge fan of the Mission: Impossible TV show and the movies that he got to see. My grandpa wanted to give them a shot once he found out how big of a fan, I was of the franchise. He is addicted to a color by number game on his kindle which he "second screened" while watching MI. Here are the movies ranked from least time spent on kindle to the most.

1. Ghost Protocol (no kindle)
2. The Final Reckoning
3. Fallout.
4. Dead Reckoning
5. Mission: Impossible
6. Rogue Nation.
7. III
8. II

His personal favorites were a tie between Dead & Final Reckoning. He was especially fascinated by the bi-plane finally scene and the fact that someone just 10 years younger than him can hang off planes, trains, helicopters, and jump off cliffs on motorbikes.

(Edit: I also want to share that my grandpa just received a double lung transplant after given a short time to live. No he’s just like his young self again. Thanks for reading.

Wonder why Zhen & Declan didn't do any further MI films?