A comment on 'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning' and movies about heroes

This Friday, the eighth installment of the "Mission: Impossible" saga, starring Agent Ethan Hunt, was released.

'Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning' shows the most dangerous enemy in this entire saga
'Warfare', a commentary on this war movie set in the Iraq War

The previous installment in the saga, "Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning", pitted Hunt - played by Tom Cruise - against the most fearsome enemy he has had to fight in all these films. I will not reveal how things end in this new part, and I pray that no one uses the comments on this post to break the magic of being able to go see a movie at the cinema without knowing how it will end.

Yes, I want to say that once again Tom Cruise does not disappoint after 29 years with this saga and having reached 62 years of age, despite which he continues to take on risky scenes as if he were a young man of 25. The film has a great story and is full of magnificent action scenes, but beyond the undoubted talent that Cruise brings to his films (if they are successful it is for a reason) and the attraction generated by that torrent of adrenaline, I think it is not out of place to draw attention to a theme that remains in fashion: hero cinema, which includes both films starring normal human beings (if you can call the things Ethan Hunt does normal) and superhero movies.

Why this continued success? Curiously, we live in a society where heroism seems to be a value in low demand. From many quarters, a selfish and hedonistic view of life is promoted, in which the pursuit of pleasure and personal satisfaction seems to be paramount, to the point that in some countries the act of sacrificing the most innocent so that our life plans do not have to change is classified as a "right."

However, despite these signs of decline, heroes continue to inspire admiration, even if they are fictional heroes. Despite all attempts to make us think otherwise, the stories of men and women who are willing to risk their lives to save others, making the ultimate sacrifice in service to their country or manifesting a vocation in which money is not the most important thing, are something that continues to fascinate and motivate us.

In a world where moral relativism ravages different levels of society, seeing people who choose to do good even if it harms them, who demonstrate that there are objective and universal truths worth fighting for and risking their lives for, is something that continues to attract many people and shows that there is still hope in our society, that not everything is decadent, and that there are still traditional values ​​that have not expired, despite some people describing them as "retrograde." That's why films like these are important, beyond the special effects. I recommend it to you.

You can see the trailer for this film here: