The Reel Rejects - MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (1996) IS FANTASTIC!! MOVIE REACTION!! First Time Watching!!

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Starting point is 00:01:00 This video is brought to you by Huell and Liquid Ivy. More on them in just a bit. Listen, rejects. We're going on a mission. Is it possible or is it impossible? We don't know. I'm born ready. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 00:01:14 Let's do it. Oh, man. We got to think the fine folks I prep are for editing down these highlights. Also, Eric Nerd Chronic. He also does double edits. he's great um okay so how do you feel your which i also felt like is my first time a little bit how do you feel what now like watching this movie how you vibe in i feel awesome i feel like i just watched a really fun movie that was intriguing because at first i'm like okay all right we got

Starting point is 00:01:54 our crew slow exposition heavy what's happening and then people started dying explosion started happening a mystery was afoot and i was in i was engaged the action was really well shot tom cruise was great uh the stunt work was incredible i really like all of the close-in shots we got i really enjoy the cast the theme song is incredible and that one scene the our most iconic scene was super duper tense and i see this being the framework for these other action like espionage adventures that we've seen in film history since then but now seeing what walked so these other things

Starting point is 00:02:33 can run and knowing that the thing that started it all in and of itself was really good and really strong and entertaining this is like the pinnacle of the 90s action movie and I think it still works it still holds up till today and I'm excited to watch more mission

Starting point is 00:02:50 impossible I like Tom Cruise in general I like this character that he was playing I thought the mystery was really compelling all the stuff with the mask was really cool and largely really holds up and looks really good. Yeah, this movie was awesome. Right? And it's like weird to look at it

Starting point is 00:03:04 where now even action movies now would be like, oh, we have to get the contacts for the eyes and the thumbprint. It's like still very relevant. Definitely. And with the glasses thing, like I was saying, we have those glasses now. Anyway, I love this movie.

Starting point is 00:03:19 I did not remember anything except for the vision of him coming down the thing. and he's at the computer because there's like t-shirts that are popular of that the most popular scene in the film right um wow though that scene had me i was losing it that is such a great amount of tension and how brian de palma shot that from like um up ahead and then also below and like having to drop tom really really low he was so close to the ground Stupid close. Wow.

Starting point is 00:03:56 I mean, that was just really great. The, even though we thought, well, the train, I think, was still CGI. I don't know how they made the helicopter in there, but it looks like real. Obviously, it's not. But it looks awesome. I don't know if they use maybe a prop of a helicopter inside of a bridge and then they blow fans to make it look like it's moving. I have no idea, but it looked great. John Boyt always a great actor

Starting point is 00:04:25 I had no idea he was in this and obviously I just I love that from start to finish where we started is where we ended with the tape on a plane and it's probably going to say this will expire whatever it says in five seconds or something

Starting point is 00:04:44 and I love that that's what gets us off and going on to obviously the next mission. I love that they had enough faith well maybe they didn't maybe it's just still a good ending but enough faith that they're like this one's going to do well enough that we're going to be able to make a second right right um and i do agree with you this gave i think a lot of other films tons of aspiration and um movement in like making a really good action thriller and i think that what they did a good job of is paying attention to casting i do think that him and claire had chemistry right at the top i was already

Starting point is 00:05:22 questioning it what's going on here and now I realize it's because she was a freaking mole and trying to get him to feel that way and and her and John Voight were were basically just making feel really really comfortable comfortable enough not to see what was coming for him um and then it was odd though like when she died even though he found that out about her he just still looked like he just like cared about her yeah remember that on the train He's just, like, looking at her face going, like, he's sad about that. He actually tried to protect her when John Voight turned the gun towards her. Ethan was already running towards Claire, which I'm like, bro, she was a traitor, but okay.

Starting point is 00:06:05 I mean, it's, it's cute. It's nice. It's a well, well written film that just keeps you on the edge of your seat, really smartly, like written. And the directing, obviously, Brian DePama does a great job, plays with, like, Dutch shots underneath to make people seem more powerful, dead on. Like, I mean, he and his zoom-ins are a whole thing. I can't wait for the next one. I'll tell you that.

Starting point is 00:06:34 Yeah, no, I can't wait for the next one too. And I always say when we're watching movies together, just in general, that I think what makes a great movie is, you know, great story meets great characters. And it usually makes great characters really understanding the characters. I think that this movie gave just enough to care about his mission and what was going on without getting super in depth with what he

Starting point is 00:06:58 who is in a personal life and whatnot. Right. I think that, you know, it makes me, it's movies like this that make me question that or rather like the balance of that is fluctuating depending on the type of story that it is. And I think this is a great example of that. I'm like, yeah, I like this guy.

Starting point is 00:07:18 I want to continue to follow him. He's clever. He's charming. he's very good at what he does and yeah he's just great overall and you know it's wild that they had that we didn't really have like a

Starting point is 00:07:30 a big shootout scene or like a crazy intensive action yeah no really low key as far as like it was very this is believable for the most part with the exception of the finale that everything that happened here was not only tense

Starting point is 00:07:47 but it was also something that could go under the radar without causing too much commotion because everything was so espionage based and i feel like i'm accustomed to things that are more in the realm of espionage and spy having that heavy action element as well not to say that won't come into play later in the franchise but i was impressed by this movie's ability to show restraint in that sort of department and not have it be that thing which is a welcome addition to me as an audience member but i just thought it was a notable thing that they didn't really have that in this film. Yeah, I guess when you think about it, because you said

Starting point is 00:08:23 the, yeah, 1996, they probably didn't have, well, I mean, they could have had a shootout scene, but maybe with the way that they wanted it to go, maybe the advancement in CGI, maybe they were just like, we can't do exactly what we want to do, and or they're like, no, this is exactly how we wanted it. Because if you think in 96, you're like, oh, my God, AI, what are they talking about it has to scan an eye and it can read your voice and then it can like it scans the temperature of a room like even now i when they were describing that i was like that's insanely cool right that a drop of whatever will set up an alarm it's very sensitive this is more um it airs on the side of like let's make it smart and really engaging in regards to information that we get as an

Starting point is 00:09:16 audience, which in 96 would be information and visuals that we've never seen before. But because now in 2025, we've seen like, that's why I said, this reminds me of Fast and the Furious, right, with the helicopter on the train and or with the helicopter pulling up a car. And I'm like, dude, this is, if we think about it, probably maybe the first time we've ever seen a helicopter linked to anything flying through a like a tunnel yeah um never seen that before and somebody on top of a train and he's able to get him off and then he jumps on the that's wild our rejignation quick personal update on january 25th that was 218 pounds as of today i'm down to 188 that's 30 pounds lost six pack gregg is coming in and while there's been a lot of factors one of the

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Starting point is 00:13:48 Yeah, that one. For 96. It was for, yeah, for 96 is really impressive. That's one thing I have seen before, but that being said, this was the model for that. Exactly. Which was really, really cool. Yeah, it's cool to think like, wow, they really set the precedent for all these films to come because I think that, yeah, it could have been more action-packed,

Starting point is 00:14:11 but I think where we went with it was more on the edge of your seat thriller. And like, how do we figure out who the mole is? And does it, I thought it was so great when Ethan was there at the table with John Voight, when John Voight was faking that he was hurt, I was still, it was awesome. That we see him talking it through

Starting point is 00:14:31 and he's imagining John Voight being the mole, right? Yeah. But still the way that, you know, he was playing it. It was playing it as though I was confused about whether Ethan was still confused about whether it was John Voight or Kidridge. I still was like, oh, I think he knows and he's playing it up for John Void. But then at the same time, the way he was interacting with John Voight, I was like, wait, is he still not?

Starting point is 00:15:02 No, I thought that scene was close. clever because they established when he saw the book he went back to what john voight said yeah he was talking to john void he was mad even though he said kitchridge he was talking about kittridge we're really talking about the guy in front of him totally and then he was going through the scenario in his head that's why i showed her blowing it up and he's like wait no he wouldn't do that he'd do it himself right to him blowing it up outside of the water right so i thought that was was really well handled where it's like this agree multi yeah he's figuring it out but also playing this like chess game with this guy at the same time totally and they made they did it in a way where

Starting point is 00:15:38 it could be extremely confusing but i think that it's still easy to grasp because of this combination of of like visual language visual storytelling and the um the audio of it as well yeah and i think they do a good job of giving the audience clues and being like do you remember this because it's going to come back i am surprised that i remembered out of john boyt's voice that he said something about Chicago and a hotel so when he opened up the Bible and they you look at the stamp I was like oh that's what John Boyt said and now that's putting him off as like a possible like mole like why is it why is that Bible there um I just like the little the little crumbs that they left us throughout this movie um for the audience um just I don't know to be writing on this movie and

Starting point is 00:16:30 still go like oh I remember that what are they going to do with it what is that mean um rather than going into like exposition they don't really do that which is great sure at the end john voys said something about no Ethan says yeah when i knew about the hotel the drake hotel in chicago or something but overall they don't ever go into like oh you had the bible and it was stamped so that it must be clear and not like you know what i mean there's movies that give you exposition you're like we don't need it just trust us and i feel like this movie did a good job of trusting the audience yeah this movie also did a really cool thing where a lot of movies that uh typically have strong writing do because i i i watched this thing was look with dan harmon he's like

Starting point is 00:17:18 the greater of uh rick and morty and of a community where it's like the uh it's like a style of writing i remember if it was like a diagram or like bin diagram or something of that effect but anyway the thing that he said that i do remember that the thing that he said that i do remember that's sticking with me that's applicable to this movie is that when you're writing a story, writing a script, it's not this happens and then this happens and then this happens. It's like cause and effect. Like this happens, but then this happens or this happens, therefore this happens. And I think this movie is a perfect example of that being kind of exercise.

Starting point is 00:17:51 Like, okay, we have a mission, but then everybody, I mean, but everybody dies. Or like, oh, because we're experiencing this, this. other thing is now causing this to happen. And it's like a series of having something established, addressing a mistake, and then finding a new workaround, which always keeps the movie and the character's feeling like it's on its toes. Right.

Starting point is 00:18:14 And it's so effed up when you think about it that John Voight and Claire effed over their team. They killed their team. Yeah. Their whole team and set up Ethan to take the fall. Like wild. Like I was just thinking about it now. Like I know we saw it,

Starting point is 00:18:29 but it's still just watching. wild to me how it's very intriguing and interesting writing to give Ethan and Claire that amount of chemistry but also for her to be like come here like she actually

Starting point is 00:18:46 likes him but it's like believable right and then cut to John Voigt being like because I knew how she tasted I knew you would like it like whatever he said it was like weird he said him up because he thought he wanted his girl right and i'm like but then the way he just so flippantly killed her i was

Starting point is 00:19:08 kind of thinking i don't know like maybe you weren't even that into your wife i know they probably set it up as a mistake right happened a little quick fast it was stupid fast oh she's gone yeah i was like did he panic i don't i don't know but um i do like that they made it very intriguing between Ethan and Claire because at first I was like no she can't be traded she likes Ethan and then she started like making out with his hand and I'm like are they because of how he looked at her from the beginning when he's like uh I hope she wakes up or whatever I was like I feel like he loves Claire um and uh just really interesting to give Ethan that character arc that is not spoken about it is only shown yeah only shown which I love that

Starting point is 00:19:58 You just have to, I mean, and they give it to you enough to where, like, you don't have to be too incredibly emotionally intelligent to realize there's a vibe. Right. It's very clear. Yeah. And I really, really like that. It's sort of like I was saying, like, there's, like, little hidden things in here that, that are shown and not, they're not said. Sort of like when jerkface, who thought he got the knock list, like you, I realized. at the moment when he said merci and he grabbed the disc so fast i was like this is a very clear signal

Starting point is 00:20:36 he wants it for himself right and then when it was revealed like how fun is that that he thinks like i'll do a bait and swish and like that he knows magic yeah wild that's so fun that comes back in the later movies yeah me too i wish i could look we're not going to look up trivia because there's so many like spoils on there like people don't they don't care We don't trust it. I just wish that I want to know if Tom Cruise learned magic. I maybe he knew already knew magic, but I wouldn't be surprised. He's very dedicated.

Starting point is 00:21:11 Right? Like, I need to know. Did he like, because that's a big disc and that's like a big slide. I need to know. You put in your sleeve? Where's it going, Tom? That's what I'm saying. I need to know.

Starting point is 00:21:22 I need to know. I don't, I mean, or somebody took the time to every second of frame. wipe it out but that's difficult i don't know y'all can let us know in the comments um do you have any ending thoughts i know the movie was a lot of fun and i'm excited to see where the rest goes yeah me too um make sure that you go to reject nation shop dot com that's another way that you can help support all of us go get yeah go get your gear um and yeah you know the jews patreon find us on our our socials individually and also at Real Rejects everywhere. Thanks again,

Starting point is 00:21:59 Prepper. And love you guys. See you on the next one. Doses. Ethan Chadwick. My friend, you're going to be getting yourself a very specific shout out for being brand new here. E stands for equitable. I feel like this is going to be

Starting point is 00:22:19 a mutually beneficial relationship. T stands for telekinetic, because you can move things with your mind. H stands for Horn Dog. Do I need to say more? Yeah. That's what makes it equitable. A stands for Anvil, which you are as hard as.

Starting point is 00:22:41 And stands for no means yes. Oh, which is... Ethan Chadwick. Ethan definitely stands for. Behave. Chadwick Replace the W with the D

Starting point is 00:22:54 and Hey Chaddick Then you sound chattery Chattery Anyway Ethan I hope this is a worthwhile shoutout You did it man This is a great way to celebrate

Starting point is 00:23:05 This is your inaugural Like you should feel Happy death day to you About yeah You're going to repeat this shoutout And relive it over and over again Love to hear it Thanks Ethan

Starting point is 00:23:16 Ethan Thank you.

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The Reel Rejects - MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (1996) IS FANTASTIC!! MOVIE REACTION!! First Time Watching!!

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