Went through all the Mission: Impossible movies over the course of a week. I'm most certainly not the first person to point this out, but the inconsistent tone across the first five movies is pretty entertaining. Every new director decided that no no no, he needs to make the TV spinoff movie into his own thing regardless of what the last guy did. John Woo's going to have motorcycle fights and his slo-mo birds, dammit! J.J. Abrams wants to explore if the silly action spy man can have a normal life so he gives him a wife--JUUUUUUST KIDDING! Brad Bird doesn't want the wife so he gets rid of her and adds a bunch of cartoony scenes and tech and the stupid A113.
They should have just committed to a new director every single movie with no restrictions. David Lynch should have gotten a Mission: Impossible movie. Get Wes Anderson in there. Get Guillermo del Toro. Get Sam Raimi. Let David Cronenberg give us Tom Cruise body horror. Just go wild with it, why not. The movies have nothing to do with the show at this point so just get as outlandish as you possibly can.