JJ’s Impossible Mission

Just days before the opening of the new Mission:Impossible movie directed by Lost co-creator JJ Abrams, moviehole.net has published an interview with the man himself.

The first movie was so much about plot and suspense, the second movie is so much about action, and this movie, I think, takes a more realistic approach than a stylistic approach. Obviously it’s very awkward talking about what you do from the outside in, but I hope what works, is that whilst this is a movie that’s full of action – more than the first two combined, when you count the sequences – it’s not an action movie. It’s a love story, there’s a lot of comedy and heartfelt stuff. It happens to have action in it, but it’s not like, let’s go make an action movie.

“Die Hard” is a good example of a movie that was a great movie that had action in it, but I don’t think of it is an action movie. The reason that film was so effective, and the reason you tune into it when it’s on, is because of the characters. “Die Hard 2”, you wouldn’t normally rent again or watch again because it was all about action – the action was fine, but it wasn’t a story, it was a series of action sequences that were designed to illicit a response as opposed to what does the story demand happen.

Read the interview at moviehole.net