The Reel Rejects - MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE THE FINAL RECKONING (2025) MOVIE REVIEW!!

Episode Date: August 19, 2025

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leave us a rating if you could be so kind. Gang, we're going to jump into these questions. Questions from our impossible missions force of trusty patrons. But before we do that, this is some base level feelings. How are you guys to Tara? How do you feel right now? I feel real good. That movie was freaking great.

I love everything about it. and I almost lost my mind at the end there. Tom Cruise is an alien, and I love him. I have to take some ibuprofen right now. I do, too. But this movie is freaking phenomenal. Oh, my goodness. Arun.

Oh, I liked it. It was all right. Wow. Wow. I felt like it was a little exhibition movie. You're alive because of Thomas Andrew Gordon Cruz. And you better show some respect to the man. He saved us.

giving every possible flaw this film has a pass. It's the real secret McGuffin. Aaron, go to your corner. Go to your corner. You're in a freaking Tom out. I hope that you live in the city we sacrifice. Shame on me. Thomas, I'm sorry.

It's okay. I didn't love your movie, Thomas. I take it back. I like it back. I take back the harsh words, I said. It's an impossible mission to come up with a... It was an impossible mission. But yeah, I think I was more into the second half than it was the first half.

You don't say. The first half was a little real exposition heavy, a lot of information to follow. I didn't really like feel the emotional grasp of the stakes. But, you know, Luther dying was pretty sad. But then once the action ramped up in the second half, I was like, okay, we're locked in. But yeah, a lot of moving pieces, a lot of stuff going around. But overall, I've really enjoyed this franchise. I was watching with Tara.

I'm happy we got to do this. The three of us today. Absolutely. And, yeah, I'm excited to talk about it. There were some insane stunts in this movie. Tom Cruise is excellent as always. The music was intense. The stunts just continued to go past what you thought was possible

because this is Mission Impossible. And, yeah, that's how I felt. This movie came out this year, right? Yeah. Yeah. You know, I think that... I'm pretty sure. Yeah, and I know it was a corner.

of, you know, the entirety of the series. And, yeah, you can definitely feel that here, that this is, like, the end, and they're tying a bunch of stuff from a bunch of different movies and having it one be one culmination. So, yeah, I think overall that I enjoyed it. It's not one of my favorite mission possible movies, but, you know, still fun in the end there.

What about you, John? Yeah, yeah, I had a lot of fun. There's a lot of very impressive filmmaking and stuff. I definitely got, I would agree, I got more sucked into it, I was having more, you know, the kind of fun where you're kind of forgetting yourself and you're just pulled into the thing. And yeah, it's doing the things we come to Mission Impossible to see. Yeah, this lived up to a certain amount of the hype, which was, yeah, like there's a really thick boy first act of just like clips and flashbacks and freaking information flying at you. And then once they get out of that, it kind of finds its footing and, you know, catches groove. And I felt like that was the case.

I think it helps that they have a whole stable of, you know, wonderful supporting actors. And, yeah, a lot of movie magic on display. I have said in the past I wish with some of these long-running franchises that as cool as it is when a certain, you know, star producer loves to work with a particular director over and over and over. sometimes for these franchises it feels good to me to have some fresh blood in the director's seat just to mix things up. Christopher McCory has been making these for the last four

or so since Rogue Nation, right? So I will say, I thought this still had a lot of punch and verve behind the camera, a lot of very creative slick and elegant shots, obviously the breathtaking stunt work.

So yeah, I intentionally did not watch a bunch of Mission Impossible stuff before this so I can kind of let it hit me and as like the first time I've watched a Mission Impossible probably since I saw the last one this was a lot of fun this delivered on yeah being

the big ass blockbuster roller coaster ride but yes there's some obvious things about it as a film that could be more smooth and more proportioned. This is a three hour movie so naturally we have three hours worth of questions

Jay Rushton Stunts are the star of the movie So we will start here Thank you, Jay, for chiming in with your question What is your favorite stunt in the film Who wants to take this one? I'll take the ocean The one that was in the sea

Submarine? Oh, I'm tossing a submarine and plane. All right. Yeah, I got to go plane, man. That was absurd. I almost lost it. Yeah, submarine second plane is definitely first Because that was insane.

I don't know how you shot that. He was two planes. wild insane on the biplane yeah yeah i was like even though each movie gets more dangerous and dangerous each stunt but i like i love how intricate this one was and you saw he was in camera the entire time yeah and they found a way to obviously you know play it into the plot which i normally they always do but just the stakes of this one just felt were insane both for the character and the actor i was like i don't know if anybody's ever done this and i don't know if anyone ever will again so i'm happy to have been alive to witness it god yeah what other set pieces were there i guess

underwear fight yeah that was good there's the submarine one he flipped over into the frame like and it kept rolling and that was amazing it was the knife fight in the submarine with that guy that was awesome i mean you know yeah obviously it's going to be the submarine or the airplane yeah yeah both When the water goes to the side, holy tomorrow. That was the most amazing shot. Yeah, the whole thing, like, rolling and, yeah, the inception, hallway quality of that sequence was very fun. Yeah. So, I like it's weird.

They truly are too negative. Yeah, for whatever you're feeling is on the longevity of the franchise and how it feels to you eight movies and blah, blah, blah. Like, you could make a case today that those are two of the best action sequences, this franchise filled with iconic guys. action sequences is produced. Yeah. So, yeah, I'm sure I'm forgetting other action because my brain feels like a bowl of

cream of wheat right now. But anyway, Game Night, J-14. Thank you for chiming in. John, Tara, and Aaron, do you guys think this is a good stopping point for the series? And do you think they will stop the series after this movie?

It kind of felt like a finale. Yeah. So, I'd say so. You know, it's weird because he has these like pseudo love interests except for michelle wanahan you know the i think elsa was the last one but i don't think they ever kiss justice for ilsa faust justice for ilsa and then obviously they were kind of alluding to that with haley's uh at well in this one but they never actually kissed either so i'm like maybe it'll have him like settle down let's actually retire ethan hunt i think that would be nice but this one kind of ended on a note we're like well we're

we can do this again if we want to even though they had that coma to feel at the beginning. He's just going to go off and be an escape room enthusiast. She's just going to spend all of his free time being like, nope, this isn't giving me the same rush. Let me try the next one. Nope. I guess I'll have just

open my own escape room that no one can be. Yeah, how do you feel? I thought it was a great, I mean, stopping point for the I assume that this is like the final, final, the end. But I do like that they still left it open so

that if Tom Cruise has to step out and if Alan Richardson has to step in I think that's his name Alan Richardson from Reacher? Yeah. I would be okay with that. That's all I'm saying. Alan Richardson. Don't come for me because y'all know how much I love Tom Cruise. Do you know the perfect nature of your proposition? What is it? You can just have Jack Reacher

they're both Jack Reacher so they could just both be Ethan Hunt This is perfect See what I mean See what I mean See what I mean see what I mean See what I mean You should be a Hollywood producer

I know I should do it Give this woman the money Give me the money Goodness gracious I mean like I think that yes You could stop the series here I mean obviously this did a bunch of this

Sort of like hey we brought a bunch of shit Back from the beginning And yes we did a clip show Which we often do in the final seasons of stuff or, yeah, like, everyone, I think this is very open-ended in a sense. It's like, yeah, due to the context, it feels like a culmination. There is a certain amount of that, like, oh, this thing from way back of the day, you didn't even realize it was part of this endgame that has only existed really for these two movies.

So, you know, like I think there's some level of wiggle you can do with that. And, I mean, I like that you have the, you know, Ocean's 11 ending thing where it's like, oh, everyone shows up to just kind of be like, hey, good job out there. You know, and they all go back into the shadows. Yeah. And so, yeah, I feel like it's left off in a way where it's like, well, they're out there. If we need them, they might come. But, you know, yeah, it certainly seems as though if they wanted to hang their hat up on this, they certainly could.

You know, it's a thick movie in general. The stunts are, you know, insane. And yes, like, I don't know how much longer Tom Cruise can do stuff to that scale. I don't know, man. I honestly don't because I feel like the dragon you'll always want to be chasing with these kinds of. a movie or with any movie franchise that goes a while is that you want to end on one of your agreeably best

installments. I feel like the past two have had some degree of more mixed response. So I feel like the only real reason to do it again unless they want to and they find the prospect fun would be to like come up with some more definitive story.

And I think it is interesting that in the course of the movie they commented a number of times on like this kind of thing keeps happening to you. You know like keep going on these same kinds of world-rending missions where it's all going to come down to like freaking doomsday weapons and shit. So, you know, you can always do that again. Yeah. It's weird. I think this maybe, if you want to look at it through a more critical eye, I think this kind of

shows you that, okay, eight films deep, we've seen a lot of doomsday weapons and stuff like that. And so maybe the key to making this feel fresh again and feel as exhilarating as it was when the franchise was on its incline. is to take a beat and come back when yeah there's less expectation or less sort of like when we're not as used to this is the territory with Mission Impossible

it has to blow my mind so then it has to be even more mind-blowing to compensate for the fact you already expected to be mind-blowing so it's hard to end anything man and I feel like they could easily walk away with their heads held high from this if they wanted to Shaden Roads

Mission Impossible 8 I loved this movie Everything works for me, but the main problem I have seen people talking about is the first hour is a drag to get through because of all the flashbacks to previous movies. I'm curious what y'all thought of it. Did it drag for y'all, or was the pacing good? Also, can't wait for the reaction. It's my personal favorite action movie the year so far. Hell yeah.

Well, I am very excited to get to share it with you in a, you know, time-y, whimey, delayed fashion. Yeah, okay, first hour. What are our thoughts, Guy? I'm probably the only one that did. I didn't feel the drag that much. I appreciated the recaps. Not because I didn't remember. They did those flashes, like the montage, very quickly in the beginning.

I thought the pacing was good. I didn't think they did it too slow. Because if they did too slow, I'd be like, this is a snooze. But I didn't feel that way. And that's just me. I think these guys were like, it dragged. I think we're, we are perfectly kind of like Goldilocks porridge bowls right now. Because I feel like you probably had the most sort of like gripe with that.

Yeah, I feel like I like I liked the movie. But I feel like out of the three of us, I feel like I liked it the least. And then Tara liked it the most and gone somewhere in the middle. Sure. And I think the first, the first hour, sorry to interrupt, it was like because of the co-stars. Like I was sitting there listening to Briggs on the plane where we were getting close to the middle. And I was like, wow, it is. very exposition heavy but every co-star in this anytime they got a chance to be on camera and

talk i believe them and that's all i want and that's what made it not drag for me i would agree is i think it's a combination of like that is one i didn't listen to a ton of in-depth uh criticism on this movie but i did hear that yeah like one of the most common complaints was like ah i just got this first act where i was a little worried and yeah it's like i i can fully see and acknowledge the sort of like oh wow this feels like you've been thrown into a blender and like on the one hand i'm like this is a way better version than this could have this could have been way worse in terms of like whoa shit i i get that you just need to get me information uh you know i i yeah it didn't bother me even though i was like this is not the most graceful way perhaps to do

this as a single movie this movie's in a weird position where it has to kind of stand alone but also directly segue out of the previous movie but also it has to use a bunch of shit from the last seven, six movies. You know, it's written into a corner kind of with all that stuff and for the way it was presented

for the work that the editors did. Like it is kind of silly at times when it's like, whoop, like a little, here's like a little transition into a flashback moment for like two lines and then you'll start to get confused during a scene because you're like, okay, wait a minute, they're not actually in the room. This is just related to a scene from before.

so we got these characters just chiming in. And, like, there's a way in which part of me kind of liked being able to vibe with that. Because, again, if you don't try as hard to, like, manage the details, you can kind of, I feel like they did still establish some type of thing that resembles a flow out of that. Like, I had gone in expecting something way less graceful, not to say it is graceful, but, like, something way more like, oh, God, what happened here? And this almost feels like the best case scenario of, like, we have. this fucking bunch of info we got to get out in the first act and a bunch of shit we got to

remind you about and a bunch of places to go and a bunch of shit to set up before we really get to the mission and so given those circumstances i think it could have got way worse and i was still having fun whether it was in spite of the idea of what we were doing going like yeah i'm getting dizzy here you know like this is a lot and and to your point like yeah that's why you get such a stellar supporting cast so that that doesn't feel as limp as it could or as cumbersome as it could, I guess. It never felt, like, from, again, a film-crit perspective, I'm like, this is not your ideal first act of a movie,

but from a, you know, I've seen a bunch of these perspective. I'm like, well, the impossible mission you chose to accept of, like, arranging how we start this thing off, again, you managed to pull it out, you eked it out. It wasn't necessarily pretty, but you got there, and I still had fun watching it, even if it's, yeah, like, logically speaking, a weaker part of the movie. yeah yeah i um the first act was it was it was a lot of information and i felt like this for me

person when i when i watch movies i feel like it's like this balance between interesting plot and characters i'm invested in and i felt like this was a lot more plot heavy than it was character focus then again it's never really been character focused that the one that's that's still my favorite out of all eight of these is still number three just because the way it immediately draws you in with him being tortured then him believing he has to

be there helpless while the bad guy's going to torture his wife and then getting back to that point all the things that happened up to that point that was the most personal pull we've had in these movies I mean granted Luther you know did die in this movie and then you know the rest of the movie carries his spirit

onward but yeah I feel like there was just a lot of stuff going on, but the action scenes in the latter half of the movie really made it kind of come together for me, because I'm like, at the end of the day, it's a fairly simple plot, you know, you gotta stop the entity, and you've got to

get it inside of this chip, so it doesn't destroy the world, but I feel there's a lot of convoluted pieces to get us to that simplicity of what their intention is, and yeah, it didn't sing for me the way I would have liked it, too, but at the end of the day, I think it's still fun with still incredible action and fun performances by actors I enjoy.

I feel like it was like made, the beginning of it, was made for Mission Impossible fans. That wouldn't mind when you go into a flashback, you're like, yeah, yeah, Mission Impossible. Look at Tommy. Oh, man, we get to see him drop down again. And then the knife, the whole thing. Yeah. And like you're kind of, it's like almost in remembrance of the other films. Yeah.

So I think that's how I was taken in by it. And maybe that's why I didn't feel the lugging of it so much. Well, it's a thin line. It's, for me, it was interesting because part of me feels like it was an homage thing. The other part of me was like, well, I know you haven't seen Mission Impossible in a while, so remember this stuff. So I'm wondering how this would play, how to be, like, done a fresh rewatch of, like, all seven films right before this. Right.

Would it be like, okay, like, I know this? Or would it be like, oh, yeah, memories? I think that's the kind of, like, little gray space that helps it out for me as the sort of, I recognize the function of all this because of how much they're throwing at you but also I do kind of appreciate the idea of like oh yeah we're going to do a little retrospective

before we get out of here you know it's like it's like in that sense it's a neat way or you know it's not the worst way I've seen to do that I guess especially in a movie in the kinds of movies

whose whole business is to be as convoluted as possible to create these impossible scenarios you know Yeah, I'll give it a certain amount of grace to be like, here's some guide rails for you. And hey, we get to see how far we've come in the process. So, you know, it's an interesting part of this film, for sure, though. And I would be curious to hear y'all's thoughts as well.

Captain Fernandez, thank you for joining in the chat. I enjoyed the movie, but Isai Morales' performance stood out in a negative way because if it's over-the-top nature, how does you feel about his performance? Yes. tackling in the cockpit. I thought it was fun. I wish we would have explored more with the backstory, the personal backstory

they gave Ethan in the last movie with him like killing, like this girl like in his first mission or something like that. And like, oh, I wish we would have learned more about that because I was saying that that was something important to her, it's important to him.

Unless there was some information I'm not remembering, I thought we were going to explore more of whatever that backstory was in this movie, but we didn't really go back to it. But performance-wise, I thought he was cool. Yeah. He was fun, villain. I thought he showed.

I mean, yeah, it's the curse of the fact that there's not really much character. There's not much meat on the bone of that character in this movie. And there's enough going on that you can kind of forget about him for parts of the movie. And then when he comes back, you're like, you're giving the amount of gusto that some kind of great arch nemesis performance ought to have. But at the same time, yeah, I recall in the previous movie the sort of like, oh, my God, they have. this huge history personal connection but i don't really feel a huge connection myself to that because this is just being sprung on me now and we're not going to spend a whole lot of time it's like they don't do a lot of that like more james bondy sort of really putting these guys together to

ideologically clash versus also physically clashing and yada yada in this movie yeah he does pretty much just have to be like i will control the entity and you're gonna friggin bring it to me it is written ha ha ha i thought the guy who is uh the the villain in five and six was a much more interesting villain than this dude was. Yeah. Because he felt like he was, uh, Ethan Hunt's like equal. I, I can't fault Isai Morales. I feel like he was giving the kinds of, yeah, of flourishes you would hope for.

But I think it is a flaw of the, the writing in that character particularly. Because again, too, I don't know. I think this movie is in a tough position because like you have to believe that the entity is this all powerful thing. and you've got to sell that on its own and then you also have to sell Gabriel as some kind of match for

Ethan and he sort of is in the way that like events are shown to you but I never really think of him as like oh man this guy I can if you were to ask me to describe villains of the Mission Impossible franchise I might be able to be like yeah I remember he was there

and I remember you know the yeah this connection to Ethan Hunt's first mission yada yada and beyond that he's kind of just the guy who's trying to control the entity. Yeah. Yeah. You know. And I think you have to remember, like, specifically when you look at a performance, it could

have been directed that way. The thing is, is what I assume, his eyes are fully covered when he's in that plane. So we have to put something on his face to communicate whether he's happy or he's sad. Especially when Tom, when he first realizes Tom is on the plane,

his eyes are fully hidden during that entire scene until it comes off when Ethan knocks his helmet off and during that when his goggles were on was the over-the-top sort of maniacal laughter that you would think would be like a Disney evil like traitor like you're like okay yeah yeah got it maybe that's what you're thinking is over the top I'm not sure but um I think that uh at least when he talked I believed him that's my that is my main thing and then I didn't I didn't feel like at the end when he's like going to

his death I was like what did he say he said a line and I was like A parachute? Oh yeah that was the only other thing that I thought was a little like you don't have the parachute

I was like he didn't say it like that but there was like that sort of gum behind it and I was like that was maybe a lot but then his head got chopped right off and that was great that was wild. I was so unexpected. It was so quick.

That was great. Well, and two, like, you know, he's responsible for one of the part. He's a big part of one of the most memorable moments in this movie. That whole flight sequence is great. Yeah. But it is kind of like a funny punctuation to his presence that like the second he jumps out, his face plants into the tail. Totally.

And you go one of your rare mission impossible gore gags. Yeah. I can't fault these eye morale is, but I can't exactly. fault you for feeling this way because again I think there's a lot surrounding that character that the movie isn't quite supporting in a way that flatters a performance like that rejignation like many of you I grew up in a home where money felt like a constant worry financial fear was always in the air and eventually we did lose our home so needless to say I didn't grow up learning how to save or invest but I did know that I wanted to feel more in

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Importing Disclosures at Acorns. Thank you again, Acorns for making my life better and hopefully it makes your guys's life better, too. Brian Reed, all right. What do you think of the action scenes? between the prior mission impossible movies and this one leading up to the last movie. I felt like the other ones had more action,

and I feel like there was a, granted the action in these movies and what makes them so special is their intense action scenes coupled with advancing the story. And I felt like the way certain action scenes were strung together in the previous films, I felt were more engaging, though the high heights of these ones were

had me on my edge of my seat the most at least like I don't know maybe it's a recency biased but whichever the one where there was the car chase with Elsa was either five or six and then no they're underwater and then

that turned into a chase is that Rogue Nation? It might have been Rogue Nation Dude that's my Roe okay it might have been Rogue Nation Front time man because yeah he had to like set something off or like to fuse something underwater and then Elsa

saves in and then they have to do a chase and there's like a safe involved with the woohing, the circular like, yeah and he's got to pull the thing out and then he had like run that one strung into like multiple action scenes where I didn't get tired of it at all because it kept it interesting. So I feel

like compared to that movie this movie didn't have as much strung together incredible action but the action scenes that were here were still very interesting. So I would say previous ones were better but this one was still good. Yeah, it feels like there's a point.

I think this one and the Dead Reckoning, dead reckoning, you know, I think they both have more of what you're talking about where, yeah, it's like we have a few big action set pieces that we're going to stop everything else and we're going to spotlight this and we're going to drink the glory of this death-defying stunt, etc. I think the other movies do have some degree.

There's Ebenflow. It's not all like Chase, you know, ticking clock the entire time. Like there are moments. of calm, but just in hindsight it does feel like there was more connective action or more, you know, little action scenes between the big action scenes versus like, okay, we've got a kind of journey to this place

and that place, and then there'll be a big action scene, and then, okay, and then we're going to discuss the stakes for a while, and we're going to move around and we're going to set up a bunch more shit, and there's a big action scene. Yeah. You know, it does feel a little bit more modulated, especially this one less so than the previous one, actually. The previous one felt more like,

hey we got a couple ideas for some big action scenes let's find a way to stitch them together this one while it's still yeah it doesn't feel like there's quite as much connective action I still didn't I was never pulled out by like the placement

of or handling of action if that makes sense so while yeah like the way the previous movies or at least the six the first six to whatever degree articulated their action and made it feel like a present part of the movie always

in a more graceful way yeah like I it was the blend clash for me the most in the previous one and this one I thought made a little bit of improvement on that because again I thought it was I mean for a three hour movie honestly I wasn't actually

that dog by the time I was a little worried about that because three hours of an action movie especially or you know any world domination thing anything that convoluted can be an ask and yeah this certainly moved and I was never bored. So, yeah, while I think, yeah,

it's not like the most just effortlessly smooth and inspired, you know, like the language of the action from front to back has felt, I thought this incorporated its own action pretty well. Yeah, I think it did a solid job. I would say what we have to remember is all the stunts that came before.

And this one of him on a plane for a long time. I almost fell out of my chair because I thought it was so unbelievable the scope of the shots up over the head the depth of how far that is and he is hanging on like are you insane

that happened multiple times especially when the plane got really close to those rocks and they're coming around it's like that's a stunt that we haven't seen before sure you could go back to like maybe top gun not the same plane and he's in the plane like forget about it And if we're talking about Mission Impossible movies,

like, yeah, we've seen some scuba stuff, but nothing like him in the torpedo, like, launch bay thing, which was just wild. And I think, like, those, those matter. Because you're getting a bunch of freaking people in a room going, all right, it's seven. What do we do here that we haven't done? Any ideas?

Okay. And that's how it goes. and we have to think about what is something new that we can give them that doesn't seem too closely related like it could be another scuba thing. Fine, we've already done that. But here's how we got to mix. We're going to mix it in with this. We got to go get the, you know, the pop clava, whatever the frick, the thing was called.

Anyway, my whole point in that is that in a writer's room, a producer's room, they're pulling out of things that we haven't seen before. So I appreciated it because it was still new, inventive, kept me on the edge of my seat and still had Tom Cruise putting his life on the line for these stunts. And even inside in the submarine, when the guy comes up to him with a knife, and he's like, what is this?

What is this? I thought that was amazing. And then even when we see him do his, like, throwing him on the ground, his wrestling-type moves, I don't think it was exactly the same as we'd ever seen it before. There's still a little bit of switch up and he flies right into the camera. And all those things. Yeah.

I appreciate that because they are really sitting around there going, if we've done it before, Mission Impossible fans are going to know and say he's done that move before. The camera was like that. And we're not having it. So I think that, yes, they did a great job. Yeah. There's a lot of great action, and I really liked that one sequence that was, like, cutting back and forth between him fighting the guy and then the rest of them in the other location. I got to, you know, the end of a movie like this, the specific skill of Fuzzy, but I do remember, yeah.

Like, there was a good car chase in this. There was a good intercutting action scene in this, and then the two major set pieces. And I do appreciate that, like, you know, something like the submarine especially was a sort of blend of techniques in. and bits of movie magic where I was like like the plane sequence is amazing and it's like the question of how do they do this isn't really matter to that one quite as much you're like how did they

manage to capture these shots without dying is the question there whereas the question on the submarine one I was sitting they're going like man how did they do this because there's so much that looks especially underwater when he's like floating up and stuff like very convincing and very yeah like appropriately desolate and horrifying and, you know, impossible.

Like, this movie definitely felt impossible a lot of the time. But, yeah, thank you, gang, for the questions. Any other just sort of general thoughts before we do our end of review games? No. It was cool. He's okay with it. He's in the middle, and I'm like, hell yeah, I'll take you.

Tommy Boy, Tommy Possible, any day of the week, Give me all the mission impossibles. I'm your freaking girl. And I will say, I like the, especially the little end monologue that Luther gives and the fact that his pill is also one final self-destructing message. That was a tricky detail of this movie for me was the stuff with Luther because I think that's a place where you can kind of highlight the trickiness of this particular movie, which is we care because we've spent so much time over.

the years with Luther and Ving Rames is great and so like it is, it does carry some kind of weight in resonance that he should die. However, it is kind of one of a bunch of things that happens in the first chunk of the movie. And I do agree

with your assessment that like the movie does carry him in the spirit somehow through that. It is weird. Like there's something about it where I'm like, man, if this could have been like a, you know, no flaws kind of installment to have that exit be a part of, that might have been a little nicer. Like, I, I think it's nice on the one hand that it doesn't get fully just smushed and lost

in the chaos of everything in the movie. This movie could feel way more chaotic or way more chore-like than it is. But I think there could have been greater emotional impact out of Luther's departure in a less, you know, crazy, crowded movie. Yeah, because I feel like on one hand. because there's been so many movies and it shows all the clips of all the movies that not only Tom has been in but Luther's been in. He's like the one guy

who's been here since the jump. He's the only person been in every single one except for Tom Cruise. And I felt like the death itself was coasting on the history rather than establishing the emotional depth of that death in the context of the film itself. You definitely, like it's not that

they don't give you the chance to see him mourn, but there does I think feel like there's something there you want a little bit more of you know in terms of Ethan like because they have been together for so long and the team does mean so much to him and yada yada yeah also did

I mean I think it's it's tough because I think Tom and and Healyah will have good chemistry but I'm like yeah his girl just died in the last movie and like literally baton happened in the same film that is still a frustration to me like that she was awesome Elsa was awesome

Elsa was great she was a great match for like a great if anyone was going to come along after Michelle Monaghan and somehow, you know, be close to him. She was a perfect character for that. And the way they iced her in the last movie did not really sit well with me. It was one of the few things where I was like,

this is a flat out gripe for me. I was like, I don't think they should have killed her off. I feel like there was way more you could have done with that character. For sure. We loved her. Yeah, and her presence just as an actor on screen brought so much, like, perfect.

all her own stunts. Yeah, and, like, perfectly brought both the, you know, drama, but also was perfectly game to keep up with all the action and stuff like that. So, like, I like Haley Atwell a lot, and I think the pickpocket thing is really fun. But, yeah, justice for Ilsa Faus forever, because that was bullshit last time. Yeah. And, and, yeah, but, yeah, it's an interesting movie to watch because there's so much that is fun about it, that is, you know, a shiny example of what Blockbuster Cinema is supposed to be.

There are a lot of flaws and things that you can easily identify. And I think it's just kind of an interesting thing and a grace for the movie that like any flaws or mistakes that are happening are being created at such a high level of performance that like, you know, they're relatively speaking. There's still a lot of better than, you know, a lot of other things. Yeah. It just in context of everything else here they stand out. I thought the way that they brought it in with, you know, his last message of like, what we owe like the world is and then you know it takes like trust and care and then he's like nothing is is ever written kind of a thing that whole it was way more than that as we know um recite the

speech i thought i thought that it um it hit home for me i liked it i liked it the way that they pulled him back into the story that way um and it was cute how it's like this message is going to you know deconstruct in five seconds or whatever and I felt like when he died I do understand that there could have been bigger stakes

a way that they maybe placed it in a certain part of the movie where you would feel that emotion a little bit more but we do really we're running at that point we're trying to go like when when is it really going to take off and gallop and it's after

that So I don't think it was completely odd timing. I was still very much with it. And I loved his line of like, we both know that we're on the right sides of the gate. Yeah, that was a good line. And it was just, it's such a good line.

And I love the writing in that. And I love the writing in his speech at the end. Which I cannot say word for word, obviously. Consument professional Luther's stick out. You didn't say word for word of the monologue you saw like four minutes ago? Yeah. Tara. I got that brain fog.

I need it in writing. Yeah. All right. All right. What do you got for us? You got any funny games for us? Only one. Ron Tomatoes.

Guys, what do you guys think the critics thought? What do you think the audience thought? Well, now that you guys are like, well, people didn't maybe like it. Okay, I'm going to go with critics, 72, and I'm going to go audience, 81. even though, yeah, that's what I'm going to go. John Held? God, okay, so 72 and 81. I will go critics 75.

Okay. Audiences 88. Okay. Well. Oh, God, what is it? So what did you say for critics? I said 72. For critics?

Yeah. And I said 75. It looks like John is closest on both of them. Uh-oh. Uh, so for critics, they gave it an 80. Oh, okay. Good. And for audiences, John was writing the money with 88.

Okay. I feel like people still had a lot of fun with it. I feel like, you know, this isn't, there's all sorts of weird conversations about how many billions of dollars these movies need to make to be successful now. Obviously, this is an extremely expensive movie. Yeah. But it's done well enough and people's even enthous enough that, uh, yeah. Yeah, I'm glad about that. I'll take that.

I've got a couple pieces of trivia for you guys. Apparently, Haley Atwell was eight and a half months pregnant when she shot a fight scene for the movie. That's wild. Jesus, woman. Absolutely. Good job. The date that President Sloan sends to Admiral Neely implying vast importance in the character's lives is May 22nd, 1996. This is also the release day.

Of the first one. There you go. You called that one. All right. Palm Clemente F. worked so hard on her stunts. She was nicknamed Palm Cruz. Hell yeah. I love that. That's how you do it.

That's pretty great. The seventh and eighth installment were planned to be filmed back to back. This changed after the seventh completed filming due to Tom Cruise having to leave to do promotion for Topga Maverick, as well as difficulties in filming, massive action scenes under strict COVID-19 protocols. Ghost protocols. In addition to announcing the film would be delayed nearly a year, Paramount also announced the film would drop the dead reckoning part two

subtitle and would become and but it would still be a direct sequel. That's also an interesting thing that like you know James Bond and now Mission Impossible have had to deal with is sort of like the stray this one's a real sequel version. Oh James Bond did that too? Yes there are a couple in there where it's like oh this is an actual continuation of a particular plot line

or whatever. Here's a spoiler fact for you Tom Cruise and Issaim Morales performed their own stunts when in the flying biplane including when cruise holds on to the wings of the aircraft as it spins upside down. Meanwhile, the pilot of the plane wore a suit made out of green screen materials that they could digitally be digitally removed to make it look like nobody was in the cockpit. Holy tamale. That's pretty crazy.

Luther's dying words are, quote, no one to say from Phineas Freak, a call back to the very first film in the franchise where it's established that's one of Luther's aliases. Phineas Freak is the name of one of the fabulous Free Freak Brothers, a legendary underground comic from the 60s. There's now an animated series. It's a mad scientist type who likes to create exotic recreational drugs. That's pretty fun.

According to Rolf Saxon, when director Christopher McCoy offered him the opportunity to return his CIA analyst, William Donlo, the longest way homer for me in this movie, for Mission Abbasible, 1996. He thought it was a joke until he heard McCory out and upon realizing Donlo's appearance

was important to the story. agreed to reprise his role. Love that. And finally, in the scene where Ethan is preparing to exit the USS, Ohio to dive to the Sevastopol, he enters a subs, airlock, and opens the valve to let in water. With each turn of the valve, the picture expands incrementally until it reaches its full IMAX ratio. That is crazy.

Oh, my God, I should have seen it in it, I'm going to have to go back and look at that, because I did catch the aspect ratios changing periodically during the movie, but, you know, obviously on TV. It's not quite the same, but that is wicked cool, and I am very excited to go back and look at that. And, too, just, yeah, beautiful IMAX photography

and truly an epic score, working overtime, and a lot of great, a lot of great character actor appearances. Gang, anything else to tell the people? No. Well, great. You had a great time,

and it's been really fun doing this franchise. Go get your Chee-Jex Wednesday shirt. March. And, yeah, I love you, Tommy Possible. I love Mission Impossible. All right, we're going to fly a Black Hawk out of here. On that note, your mission should you choose to accept it, is to be good to each other. And don't give your identity to the entity or else it's going to make you the future is written.

And you're already doing the plan and the thing. And we'll be back with some more crazy stunts. Love you guys. Be well. Thank you.