Find a Review for a Film, Preferably One That You Have Seen
Find a review for a film, preferably one that you have seen.
Movie: Mission Impossible III
Source: Rotten Tomatoes
Critic: Joe Morgenstern
Publication: The Wall Street Journal
According to the distinctions made in Chapter Ten, how is the reviewer approaching the film.
Joe Morgenstern presents his review in a formalist manner. A formalist film analysis is concerned with elements such as plot structure, mise en scene, camera techniques, editing, and sound. A formalist film analysis that is strictly concerned with narrative elements, however, might ignore most or all of its cinematic techniques to focus on characters, plot development, story structure, motifs, foreshadowing, motivation, and the like (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2011). Morgenstern opens his analysis with a description of the opening scene in this film. He compares the thunderous action of the first scene to the thunderous action that is a hallmark of the producing franchise, and furthers that thought by explaining that the director J.J. Abrams, puts “explosive charges in our heads and then sets them off” (Morgenstern, 2006, para. 1).
He further explains that there is nothing really new to the audience in the presentation of the action film. He explores the attempt of the story to present the main character and hero, Ethan Hunt, as having human side. He describes this attempt as somewhat of a failure. He is quoted as saying “Ethan has no human side. Ethan has a shooting side, a climbing-and leaping side and a swinging-and-dangling side. And a running side” (Morgenster, 2006, para. 2). Morgenstern explains the character and the action of the film with these quotes.
He explains the plot. “It's about blowing things up. It's also an action-thriller variant of dentistry -- extracting an IMF agent from a torture chamber in Berlin, extracting the villain from a fancy function at the Vatican, and finally extracting Ethan Hunt from the Chinese lair of his tormentors in order to make sure
Movie: Mission Impossible III
Source: Rotten Tomatoes
Critic: Joe Morgenstern
Publication: The Wall Street Journal
According to the distinctions made in Chapter Ten, how is the reviewer approaching the film.
Joe Morgenstern presents his review in a formalist manner. A formalist film analysis is concerned with elements such as plot structure, mise en scene, camera techniques, editing, and sound. A formalist film analysis that is strictly concerned with narrative elements, however, might ignore most or all of its cinematic techniques to focus on characters, plot development, story structure, motifs, foreshadowing, motivation, and the like (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2011). Morgenstern opens his analysis with a description of the opening scene in this film. He compares the thunderous action of the first scene to the thunderous action that is a hallmark of the producing franchise, and furthers that thought by explaining that the director J.J. Abrams, puts “explosive charges in our heads and then sets them off” (Morgenstern, 2006, para. 1).
He further explains that there is nothing really new to the audience in the presentation of the action film. He explores the attempt of the story to present the main character and hero, Ethan Hunt, as having human side. He describes this attempt as somewhat of a failure. He is quoted as saying “Ethan has no human side. Ethan has a shooting side, a climbing-and leaping side and a swinging-and-dangling side. And a running side” (Morgenster, 2006, para. 2). Morgenstern explains the character and the action of the film with these quotes.
He explains the plot. “It's about blowing things up. It's also an action-thriller variant of dentistry -- extracting an IMF agent from a torture chamber in Berlin, extracting the villain from a fancy function at the Vatican, and finally extracting Ethan Hunt from the Chinese lair of his tormentors in order to make sure