May 20, 2025 • 27 mins
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning may or may not be Tom Cruise’s final time playing IMF agent Ethan Hunt, but the movie is certainly not worthy of taking on sendoff responsibilities.
We discuss its two standout action set pieces, convoluted plot, and how it compares to its predecessor, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning.
We also talk about Cruise’s portrayal as a mythic god and the movie’s over-reliance on exposition.
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Hi. And I'm Rohan Nahar.
Welcome to the long take. This week we're discussing the
new Mission Impossible movie, the 8th 1, the title series
called The Final Reckoning. Naturally, it starts to Hocus in
the lead and a bunch of other faces who are not really that
old at this point. Some of them are like from the
beginning, but sounds about really new.
And you may or not know them, but it turns out it doesn't
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really matter because Tom Cruiseis mostly like every frame of
the film. Yeah.
Possible. Yeah.
Except for that bit where Simon Pegg is like made in charge and
he has to do stuff. Oh yeah, Like when they go to
that send Matthews, I don't knowwhat to do, like figure out
stuff those things. He's not there because that
becomes like a intercom thing. Well, otherwise, like he's he is
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the guy. Watch him.
No one else matters. Yeah, no one else matters.
And this one is almost like whatwe complain about.
I mean, first let me say that I like this much more than the
previous one, which was not a good movie.
Oh interesting, this is going tobe a good discussion then.
Yeah, the last one was I felt just too much too verbose and
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especially coming off like Fallout, which was just like
pure action spectacle. It might be just you know what
you go in expecting and then you're let down.
You can't really. I struggled to kind of deal with
the movie on its own terms because it wasn't going wasn't
aiming for Fallout. It was very much its own beast,
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but I felt that it was too exposition need to to talkie
very silly, you know, but very serious about it.
All those issues. This one I like more because it
was yes, again to talkie, etcetera, etcetera.
But then at least it had like a couple of incredible action
scenes and I followed, which I didn't.
Like freelance that like that happening, like I I still
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remember the Rome one quite vividly.
The car. Is yeah, the car chase through
Rome. I was pretty standard.
OK. And there.
Was a better car chase in Macquarie and Cruz's first movie
together, Jack Reacher? Sure.
Like, I mean, yeah, like by in that regard, I would say
actually this rancher itself like 4-5 and six are better than
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7/8. Yeah, yeah, for sure. 4-5 and
6778. I'm personally a huge fan of
three. Oh wow.
OK, but that's that needs to be in a whole episode of 1.
Yeah, I know I'm a huge fan of three because that's the one
where, you know, with Philip Seymour Hoffman and actual
emotional stakes, which the which the franchise has been
kind of struggling with ever since because how do?
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You feel about the movie mining that movie then emotionally for
its. Because that there has no option
now. Because never in its like
whatever 30 year journey has there ever been actual human
emotional stakes. And it keeps bringing, so I
like. Brought her back for like 5
minutes in fallout. Exactly.
Or optionally because every two movies he's there's like new
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characters around him and then they forget or they are.
Like killing them or they keep leaving, right?
Like in three itself is the three the one where like who's
that face from the Americans? And I'm not forgetting her name.
Yeah, you're a career, so yeah. Yeah, she's just like killed off
in the beginning or something right of the movie and she's.
But that's by design. But what about the, you know,
the drunk? No, I'm sorry, but I'm not that
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guy. The the the the team Major Ek
Bandai, the brash guy. Yeah, he disappears.
Jeremy Renault disappears. Yeah, I.
Mean Jeremy disappears guys. We could discuss why that
happened, but again, like a separate episode.
Correct, But the movie isn't thefranchise isn't like really very
reverential. Ironically, because of what it
does in this one, it's not really very revolutionary to the
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to the past, right? It's meant they kind of do.
It because, like, movie starts off with almost like a backwards
sizzle. Real.
Yeah. I'm like, wait, wouldn't you
want to do this at the end? Like, you do a swan song and
like, pay tribute to everyone who's in the movie?
You do it at the beginning. Matlab just to be like, which I
hated in Specter also, right? Specter was like terrible,
terrible, terrible movie where they try to kind of play the
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same. Everything is connected,
whatever it. I don't know why they keep doing
this, but they made the same mistake with the first dead
reckoning also where they said dead reckoning Part 1, which is
also a big mistake, which they've had a red corn now.
Yeah. Yeah, like never call your
movie. I think Part 1.
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I like that, like the Super likeStar Wars, like make the movie,
you release it, call it Star Wars.
And then three years later we like have a Part 1 though.
If, if your Part 2 plans work out because it didn't work out
right, the Part 2 plan like backfired.
They were like, no one's going to watch Part 2.
And I know what we're doing. Part 2 is not coming
back-to-back. They thought it was gonna come
in like 1 year. It took like two or three years,
whatever. So nothing already worked on
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there. And then yourself, it's you're
sort of doing damage control versus like just do the George
Lucas thing. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. No, but what was your question?
What did? What was I saying where when we
got sidelracked? I feel like we wait, we did that
Trump thing. We went from a tangent to a
tangent to a tangent. But I think we are obviously by
saying you aspired by saying that you like this one more than
the previous one, the final opinion war and the beginning.
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And I guess we're going down that thought.
Ray Ah, Chulo. Forget it.
Doesn't matter. But yeah, this this The thing
about this one is that they've sold it like final chapter and
all that, but it's so obvious atthe end that Tom cruises like
over my dead body. Will you take this away from me?
You know, because they had an opportunity to kill him and then
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they were like, no, no, no, no. Of course he survived, which I
am. I was fully prepared.
When he's like doing the whole pen drive thing on like in mid
air while falling, that this is the end.
Yeah. But see, while like his
parachute like burns, you're like they're giving you like
another sign like OK, Oh my God,like parachutes burning and then
no, he'll back up. Yeah, which is OK.
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Let me get started on this. Then there is a backup
parachute, right? This movie is like an Abbas
Moustan movie because. It's a one second.
Let me fix that. It's a refined Abbas.
Moustan let me fix it further. It's the kind of movie that
Abbas Moustan would RIP off. Like they would watch this and
they would like be salivating, yes.
(06:27):
Yeah, OK. Like we want, we think we can do
this. And then what would they would
make? Would would pay in comparison
to? The correct, but this is exactly
like this is the blueprint of a Yeah, because everyone.
So this movie is so Hindi movie that Matlab every 5 seconds
somebody is like Oh my God, Ethan, you are like the best
human man in the world. You are the greatest.
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We complain so much about like random Shahid Kapoor movie but
this is everybody exists in thismovie to be like.
Everyone's hiding him. The movie literally opens with,
like, the president giving a speech about Ethan.
Yeah. What?
Jean. Ethan.
Please come home. And then there is the Carvacho
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scene, which I have already decided I want to call it, where
Italy Atwell is like Oh my God, so much power.
If there was one man in the world, it is you.
You are the only I'm. Like why?
Like why can't you just be normal and be like, it makes
sense to destroy it? Why does he have to be the only
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one in the movie? Like that's the issue I think is
that they have decided for some reason as like the writing team
is that Ethan can be the only one who believes that destroying
the entity is the correct move. Everyone else for some reason is
not on board of that class. Sure, I buy that, but but The
thing is that Ethan initially believes that is could destroy
Karnataka because nobody can be trusted with this, which I buy,
right because he's seen he's seen like people again.
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Abbas Mustan thing like friends turn to force, force turn to
friends and after a point you'd forget like who's what, what
like Shay Wiggum is again. Am I supposed to?
Is he the villain? Is he your friend?
I don't know anymore, but then yes, he's.
Which like plays into like a spymovie thing, right?
Because you never in when you step into a scene, you're never
sure who's on which side like which, which benefits any sort
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of spy. Movie, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And plus they have like, they don't have plastic surgery here,
but they do have the mask. So it's the same thing.
It's one. But the which it's surprisingly,
which they never use in one way.For the first time once they do
when Periscope, I don't know where it is, but the the the
French assassin woman, they kindof rescue and she's being taken.
(08:35):
By Oh yeah, yeah, it's Oh yeah, yeah, it's in some Austrian.
Presence, yeah. And then it's like ground cruise
and Simon Pegg are there, but it's very quick.
It's not like done like the, thewhat was that one?
The Russia one where the whole scene is built around.
Yeah. Which is very elaborate.
Or even like the one where they go to like the Italy.
I think it's just 5th of 4th, I forget.
(08:57):
Now Italy was the Italy the third one language out there?
I don't know. OK, what about there we.
Can put yeah, yeah. But anyway, where was I?
There is so much stuff in this movie where you're like, and
then even though people are likeexplaining to you what the plot
is, every like 3 times you do it.
Oh, so you mean we'll have to gothere and then you have to do
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this and then you have to do? And just to make sure that, you
know, you are following someone who is like lower in the
priority in that scene, who likedoesn't know as much, who kind
of keep public. Degas, CIA henchman, like dude,
he will be like, ha ha. So we're going to do this just
like confirm and like tell the audience like, you know, in case
you didn't follow. So in case you were.
Looking, I mean, this is Sabi, Tom Cruise says, you know, big
(09:39):
screen movie theatre experience.What he's essentially doing is
Netflixization his franchise, right, which is which is my
theory is that because now you understood that the majority of
the revenue that you're going tomake from this movie is from
like international, probably non-english speaking countries.
You need to your script needs tobe simple enough for the dumbest
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folks to understand. Now dumbest we carry water.
Yeah, which is why they're scared from the first time
they're doing on their plan. It contains like Pod Gova and
Entity and like some Sevastopol thing and they're like no one's
able to follow that, so we need to say it twice.
Three times, sometimes 5 and multiple times.
So it's not like they've laid out the plan once.
Yeah, but. I think that that that reference
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of like, you know, they, they allowed bringing my old actors
as like of that legacy thing. So that guy from like the first
mission possible shows up now inthe Arctic Circle or whatever.
And then Uska back story is mentioned like twice.
I'm like, no, I got it just likeskip it over.
So then you can pretend like, you know, the hiccup told him
and he told him, but like, don'trepeat it for me.
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Why you're showing me the knife again?
Literally he passes on the knifeas if like that meant something.
Who's this? There's some random life he
dropped in the first movie. No one cares.
And why does this dude have it? Isn't that like some sort of
like that? Is he have it for 36 years?
Like if he, if he had it, the only reason he would have it is
like a garage, you know, like I must kill this.
But he doesn't feel that if anything, he he says that he his
(11:05):
life has actually benefited. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And not only do they like mention it five times in the
script, they also this entire movie, it keeps like doing a
very Bollywood thing again, is like, do you remember that guy?
And then the movie will cut to that guy.
It's like they don't like they're scared like at one point
do the studio and old stuff, right?
Like studio people saw it and they were like nearly.
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But we can't pretend that peoplehave seen the previous seven
movies, which is the same way logic by horror.
Stop using numbers, right? They never want to use the
numbers and the titles because they're scared.
If you put like a huge number, people be like, Oh my God, I
need that much homework. I'm not showing around.
So that's why they use titles. They use like final recording.
They don't. No one says Mission Impossible.
A No, what I what I don't understand is this franchise has
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never been really beholden into the past.
So just pretend like this was just let me.
Yeah, the people who know know. Like good for them.
People who don't know don't know.
It's fine. Why don't we do that?
This three showings, sometimes scenes from Dead Reckoning.
I'm like, that was two years ago.
That movie people must have seenif they're showing up for this
one, because this is a country show, the story.
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Like if you literally Sevastopolis the first movie, why would
you? Full repetition or like Acha,
this Russian submarine that that's like the opening of the
they. They they fired.
That was the previous movie opening.
It wasn't like 10 years. Old, but this reminded me how
much. Studio note, stuff like that
feels like stuff, you know, likeParamount was.
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Like also validates my feelings about dead reckoning is so
impossible to follow and such a poor like there was no villain.
There was this weird entity thatnobody understood.
The movie didn't do well like atthe box office and sure there
are theories about that. It got great reviews right, but
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then the overall sense was how whatever at least my general
feeling was mujhe khud summers near.
I didn't enjoy myself and everything that you see in this
movie, which feels like a retcon, which is all these, you
know, over explanation flashbacks, spoon feeding is
like a way to kind of rescue whatever original script that
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they had, which was similar in tone to Dead Reckoning.
You can't have that again because Nahi saw like I did not
understand that movie. What was the issue?
Surprising. I didn't have that issue.
Yeah, I don't know why I like, Iguess it's, it's depends on
where the focus was going. I think I was being carried
through the film through words like whatever, like Thomas like
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was a mystery be getting unpacked, right?
It was always like. What?
At one point the AI throws a party no to.
The. AI throws a party to lure Tom
Cruise and then the AI speaks toTom Cruise and it's like a
screensaver, like all this nonsense and ABB.
All the stuff I forgot ABB. Screensaver ABB in this who we
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are so it's a screensaver the. AI, which is why, you know, like
what I I would have preferred isjust like do the whole thing,
you know, like have the AI speaking through a human like
put them in like their ear. I mean like I am the body.
Like make it. Sentimental, which is Gabriel?
'S right like put in a box yeah which is which was great here
but now he's been disowned so weneed like a new body but find
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Someone Like You know AI pick someone else you know like
person of interest there like yeah he always has like some
face like it makes it cinematic this whole like he goes in some
empty box and as you said screensaver thing for like 5
minutes and he zaps him like a million times I'm like yeah all
right this is like emperor Palpatine minus the.
Emperor, it was so bad that scene in which he goes into this
dabba and like basically has like a phone conversation that
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is like. That's not the Mission
Impossible. I knew I was like, what happened
to McCoy? You know, they essentially
rescued the size at some point. And now you're saying that
they're like they will be blamedfor like access essentially the
movies at excess at this point That'll be in both.
It's almost like they're doing too much.
What I feel is like mission possible is added the best when
it's lean, when it's like, you know, these are the action
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scenes we want to hit and we will lose least some sorry to
get there, but they have their actions.
OK. The final thing is that plane
thing beach maybe have this likeother thing with like the
submarine thing, which was the grade because finally no one's
talking for a bike. But then and the rest of the
movie is so bloated, like it takes so long to stretch these
two parts. And I'm like, why is this so
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much story? Why do you need so much story?
No one's asking for it. It's an action.
Movie, it's I don't want to makethis comparison, but it's like
the fate of the Furious. This movie.
Oh God. Yeah.
It's like because barted away and I gave but the Tom.
Cruise. But the difference at least is
that in fossil fuel movies stillbelieve even though like Shore
Wendy's it is the main lead and gets the most screen time, they
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still believe they're on sober movie.
They still believe they're not side of movie but like Wendy's.
I will serve everyone, which is why they end up with a movie
like Feet in the Furious, because they still want to give
every 5-6 minutes to every character and give them one
cheeky line or one cheeky scene.So it gets bloated here as you
just open the board card. We said Tom Cruise is literally
in every frame. So they're not trying to serve
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every character. They're OK with their prom.
Clementier gets nothing, or if Nick Offerman is getting 3
minutes of Angela Bassett is only there to speak on the
phone. They're OK with that.
They expect even Simon Peck, like one of the top four names,
is hardly like substantial in the movie.
He doesn't have an arc, he's just there.
He's made. Like even if it if it's not
being an ensemble movie, that's still bloated.
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See the the The Fast Furious movies are self aware, right?
They're they're supposed to be funny.
Everybody knows except Vin Diesel.
Yeah, Justin Lynn gave them thatnote with Fast 5, and since then
they carry that through. Whereas this one, and I'd
suppose most of these last Macquarie Mission Impossibles,
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they're not really funny. They're in fact getting more
serious as they go along. Yeah, they've got like the
reverse. It's almost like they're going
taking the fastest reverse trendlike they were Macquarie
actually when they came they made it cheeky 4 is so much in
jokey. 4 is in Macquarie though.4 is Macquarie, though he was
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like a ghost writer. No, No 4 is Brad Bird.
But I'm saying Macquarie was involved at in at some level.
Oh, Watcher. Like he that that was his
gateway into the franchise from what I know.
Like those rewrites contribute that humor.
So he introduced that at some point.
But I'm sure Brad Bird as well as like was responsible for it.
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But like since with five he theydid that.
But now, like, as you've said, like they've just kept getting
serious and serious and more serious.
Yeah, that's what explained here.
And this movie is not like, you know, like making it easy for
itself at any moment. It's never like, you know, you
have like a 10 minute window, noone minute window.
You're. 30 millisecond. You're sitting holding yourself
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right? I don't understand the science.
Anyway. You can make up whatever you
want. We will roll with it because
this movie is anyway half fantasy at this point.
So why are you deliberately telling the audience that we are
only giving ourselves one minutewindow?
Like, why are you doing that? Because then I'm just like, how
can all of these pieces stacked together in the same exact row?
What the pieces you just described so elegantly that
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this, all of this happens? Like it's something has to go
wrong, right? Like every 10 minutes they're
like they're trying to kill Ethan and he keeps surviving.
Like why are you so obsessed? It makes me who he wants to be
like, you know, planet of the eight or something like count
full biblical metaphor, which was there and yeah.
Because I the movie at the same like ideas was doing it 3 movies
ago in which he dies into this underwater thing and some blade
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is trying to cut him and used torescue some like geeky nonsense
thing from under on. And at the same point, Simon
Beck had to do some pass some face scanner in some movie in
the same same like they were still doing crazy stuff, but it
still felt funny because they were joking around.
Dingling was outside and he was like, OK, you only have this
like blah blah like they were. They were able to merge the self
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aware and the serious, like the sincere and find the middle
ground. But now this is like they've
pushed all to the. Extreme all to the extreme.
And the most surprising thing was so, like, in Harry Potter
and like, they give him the elder one and Harry Potter's
like, no, I don't want this snaps into the movies.
And he, like, chucks it off a Cliff or whatever.
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Sure. In this one, Tom Cruise is like,
no, no, no, you have to destroy the entity in that.
And then at the end when he getsthe entity, he smiles and he's
like, ha, ha, ha. Yeah.
I'm like, what the hell was that?
Why is there like why is there about that?
Why are you leaving that hanging?
Actually, he should get he should be like then the scene
you just mentioned Harry Potter,or it should be like the Star
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Wars, like larger. I see now he gets it.
Like why the hell did you do this?
I told you to destroy it. It was right there like.
Lord of the Rings, like just everybody knows that it's a bad
sign. Like it's there's nothing good
going to come out of this. So Tom Cruise walking away with
like basically God powers is I suppose the only way Mission
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Impossible could have ended thisera of it's run.
Because Martha Sakta near Tom Cruise called both allow
Karegane. So what is the other option?
The other extreme end is like him basically becoming God.
And there you have it. I'm like, Oh my God, what did I
just watch anyway? But if you, like, say it out
loud, it sounds like the most stupidest thing you ever
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watched, right? Yeah.
But then it's like this grand sweeping biblical epic about
like humanity, free will versus choice, you know, lives of many
versus the lives of few, the hard decisions that you have to
make. Whatever played by the guy who
was, I don't know why they triedto humanize him because I think
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what we like about Tom Cruise ishow little in common he has with
the rest of us. So we don't need emotional like
anchors. It would make him.
It's fun when he's like clingingto a biplate and the IMX camera
is in his face and you're like, Oh my God, this is the fault.
But then you know he's not goingto fall because he's Tom.
Yeah, he could he, if he, like, sprouted wings in that scene and
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flew, I'll be like, OK, I buy Tom Cruise.
Exactly because the literally the previous movie he did all
about that he ran a bike off a mountain.
And flew. Launched a parachute and then
crashed into a train. All of the same scene.
So if if if you have seen all that and bought all that and
loved it and enjoyed it and actually seen him do it, like
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why do you need to then? That's the thing, right, Which
is why I preferred like Vin Diesel driving his car like and
like ziplining it across 2 like 2 cliffs as like a cannonball
thing, because then the same thing is happening in this
movie, but it's like serious. The same thing has.
Happened. It's the only moment like this.
The moment is not reminding me. The only moment.
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The movie is slightly self awarewhether it's the mails done it
always insane. No, not the Internet thing
though Hayley Atwell thing when they they've initially captured
by Gabriel and we see the entireaction scene from her just face
I. Don't want to remember this.
What is? This the, the Gabriel catches
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them. They they, they, he ties them
both of them up. And Tom Cruise fakes that he, he
has cyanide cancelled, but they find him up.
So then you see Grace's face andwe just see him.
Like you don't actually see him.Yeah, yeah, yeah.
See the end or something? That is the only self aware
moment of being done. Which is like basically he does
a Ryan Gosling in Drive but because it's PG13 we can't.
(22:33):
Hear it? Yeah.
But even then, you know, the thethe moment of levity that you
spoke about, the premise of thatscene is Tom Cruise just
committed suicide. So that's like 8 second.
So then I was like distracted for a minute.
Came out of eight minute to cyanide.
(22:53):
Naita. Clearly, Yeah.
You look, what do I have to lose?
What do you have to lose? They're losing billions of life.
And there's like 2 hours of movie left.
Yeah, no one's buying it. This is like when Harry Potter
dies and whatever Deathly Hallows, and then you're like
looking at your book and like, oh, I mean, A-Team top age
watcher. It's gonna happen.
It's the guys on the title Cup. Anyway, But yeah, this is not,
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I'm hoping that Tom Cruise becomes like this, I don't know,
like a elder statesman who like sits around in the office and
does things and while like. But he that, how, how could he
even imagine that he would be OKwith that role?
You know he's going to be OK with that role for like 4
minutes like in top in Maverick and then he's going to be like
no, I'm flying anyway. No, but he's like 63 at the
(23:40):
earliest. He's going to be like 68 or
whatever when the next one comesout. 68 but he'll.
Do that between 63 and 68. No, not at 68.
At some point the studios are going to be like, we can't
insure you, Sir. You are, you are.
You qualify for like pension andstuff, Yeah.
That will happen at some point I'm sure.
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Half the budget of the movie wasthe insurance.
One, do you know that if Tom Cruise was like a Delhi resident
under Arvind Kejriwal, he would get a free train ticket to like
and stuff? He's that old.
He's a sin citizen, Yeah. And dude, dude is running
through an empty like, London. Which is not See the Fallout
(24:27):
sequence. I was like top tier, you know?
Yeah, this one I felt they were cutting too much.
Seem forced like this. They seem like Cruz like saw the
rushes is like the cabin. I added screen, but he went he's
like, once again, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But the second time he runs is he runs out of that cave in
South Africa and why you're running.
This is pointless. Fallout has like too many good
ones like I was when you. So I had to say that sometimes I
was thinking of the dive scene into Paris and I was like, Oh my
God, what a. Scene the Halo jump.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, or even the bathroom
action scene in Fallout. Oh my God.
(25:19):
Which? Is why I dislike dead reckoning.
Man, I was like yes, of Kahan dead reckoning but.
Like Fallout is like, I would say like it hit the series
almost like peak peak. We can be talking about the best
of the Lord. Yeah, but dead reckoning, see
the one action sequence that they kind of marketed the hell
out of the the bike thing. It was kind of a whatever
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underwhelming when you actually watched in the movie, like was
better in the trailer because I remember.
Yeah, because the scene itself is, you can't make a scene out
of it, right? I'm just literally driving in a
straight line. The scene is actually three-part
as he just spoke about 5 minutesago.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Him driving off, then using the
parachute or put a paraglider ina way, and then crashing into
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the train, all of that is. And the CS actually is intercut
like this stuff happening with Harry Atwell in the train with
Gabriel, which it's not. It's not just him, but says the
other thing we just spoke about the hero jump or the bike scene.
He's the centerpiece. Yeah, also a consequence of the
pandemic. I'm guessing they're reckoning a
lot of Headfell green screening,which is not, you know, the DNA
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of this franchise. Yeah, yeah, they were all like
on some cruise or something now for 3-4 months.
This one felt more like tactile,like real and stuff, so I
appreciate that. I just one thing entered for you
to die so we can get back to a continued human villain.
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Hi. And I'm Rohan Nahar.
Welcome to the long take. This week we're discussing the
new Mission Impossible movie, the 8th 1, the title series
called The Final Reckoning. Naturally, it starts to Hocus in
the lead and a bunch of other faces who are not really that
old at this point. Some of them are like from the
beginning, but sounds about really new.
And you may or not know them, but it turns out it doesn't
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really matter because Tom Cruiseis mostly like every frame of
the film. Yeah.
Possible. Yeah.
Except for that bit where Simon Pegg is like made in charge and
he has to do stuff. Oh yeah, Like when they go to
that send Matthews, I don't knowwhat to do, like figure out
stuff those things. He's not there because that
becomes like a intercom thing. Well, otherwise, like he's he is
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the guy. Watch him.
No one else matters. Yeah, no one else matters.
And this one is almost like whatwe complain about.
I mean, first let me say that I like this much more than the
previous one, which was not a good movie.
Oh interesting, this is going tobe a good discussion then.
Yeah, the last one was I felt just too much too verbose and
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especially coming off like Fallout, which was just like
pure action spectacle. It might be just you know what
you go in expecting and then you're let down.
You can't really. I struggled to kind of deal with
the movie on its own terms because it wasn't going wasn't
aiming for Fallout. It was very much its own beast,
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but I felt that it was too exposition need to to talkie
very silly, you know, but very serious about it.
All those issues. This one I like more because it
was yes, again to talkie, etcetera, etcetera.
But then at least it had like a couple of incredible action
scenes and I followed, which I didn't.
Like freelance that like that happening, like I I still
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remember the Rome one quite vividly.
The car. Is yeah, the car chase through
Rome. I was pretty standard.
OK. And there.
Was a better car chase in Macquarie and Cruz's first movie
together, Jack Reacher? Sure.
Like, I mean, yeah, like by in that regard, I would say
actually this rancher itself like 4-5 and six are better than
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7/8. Yeah, yeah, for sure. 4-5 and
6778. I'm personally a huge fan of
three. Oh wow.
OK, but that's that needs to be in a whole episode of 1.
Yeah, I know I'm a huge fan of three because that's the one
where, you know, with Philip Seymour Hoffman and actual
emotional stakes, which the which the franchise has been
kind of struggling with ever since because how do?
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You feel about the movie mining that movie then emotionally for
its. Because that there has no option
now. Because never in its like
whatever 30 year journey has there ever been actual human
emotional stakes. And it keeps bringing, so I
like. Brought her back for like 5
minutes in fallout. Exactly.
Or optionally because every two movies he's there's like new
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characters around him and then they forget or they are.
Like killing them or they keep leaving, right?
Like in three itself is the three the one where like who's
that face from the Americans? And I'm not forgetting her name.
Yeah, you're a career, so yeah. Yeah, she's just like killed off
in the beginning or something right of the movie and she's.
But that's by design. But what about the, you know,
the drunk? No, I'm sorry, but I'm not that
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guy. The the the the team Major Ek
Bandai, the brash guy. Yeah, he disappears.
Jeremy Renault disappears. Yeah, I.
Mean Jeremy disappears guys. We could discuss why that
happened, but again, like a separate episode.
Correct, But the movie isn't thefranchise isn't like really very
reverential. Ironically, because of what it
does in this one, it's not really very revolutionary to the
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to the past, right? It's meant they kind of do.
It because, like, movie starts off with almost like a backwards
sizzle. Real.
Yeah. I'm like, wait, wouldn't you
want to do this at the end? Like, you do a swan song and
like, pay tribute to everyone who's in the movie?
You do it at the beginning. Matlab just to be like, which I
hated in Specter also, right? Specter was like terrible,
terrible, terrible movie where they try to kind of play the
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same. Everything is connected,
whatever it. I don't know why they keep doing
this, but they made the same mistake with the first dead
reckoning also where they said dead reckoning Part 1, which is
also a big mistake, which they've had a red corn now.
Yeah. Yeah, like never call your
movie. I think Part 1.
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I like that, like the Super likeStar Wars, like make the movie,
you release it, call it Star Wars.
And then three years later we like have a Part 1 though.
If, if your Part 2 plans work out because it didn't work out
right, the Part 2 plan like backfired.
They were like, no one's going to watch Part 2.
And I know what we're doing. Part 2 is not coming
back-to-back. They thought it was gonna come
in like 1 year. It took like two or three years,
whatever. So nothing already worked on
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there. And then yourself, it's you're
sort of doing damage control versus like just do the George
Lucas thing. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. No, but what was your question?
What did? What was I saying where when we
got sidelracked? I feel like we wait, we did that
Trump thing. We went from a tangent to a
tangent to a tangent. But I think we are obviously by
saying you aspired by saying that you like this one more than
the previous one, the final opinion war and the beginning.
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And I guess we're going down that thought.
Ray Ah, Chulo. Forget it.
Doesn't matter. But yeah, this this The thing
about this one is that they've sold it like final chapter and
all that, but it's so obvious atthe end that Tom cruises like
over my dead body. Will you take this away from me?
You know, because they had an opportunity to kill him and then
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they were like, no, no, no, no. Of course he survived, which I
am. I was fully prepared.
When he's like doing the whole pen drive thing on like in mid
air while falling, that this is the end.
Yeah. But see, while like his
parachute like burns, you're like they're giving you like
another sign like OK, Oh my God,like parachutes burning and then
no, he'll back up. Yeah, which is OK.
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Let me get started on this. Then there is a backup
parachute, right? This movie is like an Abbas
Moustan movie because. It's a one second.
Let me fix that. It's a refined Abbas.
Moustan let me fix it further. It's the kind of movie that
Abbas Moustan would RIP off. Like they would watch this and
they would like be salivating, yes.
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Yeah, OK. Like we want, we think we can do
this. And then what would they would
make? Would would pay in comparison
to? The correct, but this is exactly
like this is the blueprint of a Yeah, because everyone.
So this movie is so Hindi movie that Matlab every 5 seconds
somebody is like Oh my God, Ethan, you are like the best
human man in the world. You are the greatest.
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We complain so much about like random Shahid Kapoor movie but
this is everybody exists in thismovie to be like.
Everyone's hiding him. The movie literally opens with,
like, the president giving a speech about Ethan.
Yeah. What?
Jean. Ethan.
Please come home. And then there is the Carvacho
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scene, which I have already decided I want to call it, where
Italy Atwell is like Oh my God, so much power.
If there was one man in the world, it is you.
You are the only I'm. Like why?
Like why can't you just be normal and be like, it makes
sense to destroy it? Why does he have to be the only
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one in the movie? Like that's the issue I think is
that they have decided for some reason as like the writing team
is that Ethan can be the only one who believes that destroying
the entity is the correct move. Everyone else for some reason is
not on board of that class. Sure, I buy that, but but The
thing is that Ethan initially believes that is could destroy
Karnataka because nobody can be trusted with this, which I buy,
right because he's seen he's seen like people again.
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Abbas Mustan thing like friends turn to force, force turn to
friends and after a point you'd forget like who's what, what
like Shay Wiggum is again. Am I supposed to?
Is he the villain? Is he your friend?
I don't know anymore, but then yes, he's.
Which like plays into like a spymovie thing, right?
Because you never in when you step into a scene, you're never
sure who's on which side like which, which benefits any sort
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of spy. Movie, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And plus they have like, they don't have plastic surgery here,
but they do have the mask. So it's the same thing.
It's one. But the which it's surprisingly,
which they never use in one way.For the first time once they do
when Periscope, I don't know where it is, but the the the
French assassin woman, they kindof rescue and she's being taken.
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By Oh yeah, yeah, it's Oh yeah, yeah, it's in some Austrian.
Presence, yeah. And then it's like ground cruise
and Simon Pegg are there, but it's very quick.
It's not like done like the, thewhat was that one?
The Russia one where the whole scene is built around.
Yeah. Which is very elaborate.
Or even like the one where they go to like the Italy.
I think it's just 5th of 4th, I forget.
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Now Italy was the Italy the third one language out there?
I don't know. OK, what about there we.
Can put yeah, yeah. But anyway, where was I?
There is so much stuff in this movie where you're like, and
then even though people are likeexplaining to you what the plot
is, every like 3 times you do it.
Oh, so you mean we'll have to gothere and then you have to do
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this and then you have to do? And just to make sure that, you
know, you are following someone who is like lower in the
priority in that scene, who likedoesn't know as much, who kind
of keep public. Degas, CIA henchman, like dude,
he will be like, ha ha. So we're going to do this just
like confirm and like tell the audience like, you know, in case
you didn't follow. So in case you were.
Looking, I mean, this is Sabi, Tom Cruise says, you know, big
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screen movie theatre experience.What he's essentially doing is
Netflixization his franchise, right, which is which is my
theory is that because now you understood that the majority of
the revenue that you're going tomake from this movie is from
like international, probably non-english speaking countries.
You need to your script needs tobe simple enough for the dumbest
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folks to understand. Now dumbest we carry water.
Yeah, which is why they're scared from the first time
they're doing on their plan. It contains like Pod Gova and
Entity and like some Sevastopol thing and they're like no one's
able to follow that, so we need to say it twice.
Three times, sometimes 5 and multiple times.
So it's not like they've laid out the plan once.
Yeah, but. I think that that that reference
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of like, you know, they, they allowed bringing my old actors
as like of that legacy thing. So that guy from like the first
mission possible shows up now inthe Arctic Circle or whatever.
And then Uska back story is mentioned like twice.
I'm like, no, I got it just likeskip it over.
So then you can pretend like, you know, the hiccup told him
and he told him, but like, don'trepeat it for me.
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Why you're showing me the knife again?
Literally he passes on the knifeas if like that meant something.
Who's this? There's some random life he
dropped in the first movie. No one cares.
And why does this dude have it? Isn't that like some sort of
like that? Is he have it for 36 years?
Like if he, if he had it, the only reason he would have it is
like a garage, you know, like I must kill this.
But he doesn't feel that if anything, he he says that he his
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life has actually benefited. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And not only do they like mention it five times in the
script, they also this entire movie, it keeps like doing a
very Bollywood thing again, is like, do you remember that guy?
And then the movie will cut to that guy.
It's like they don't like they're scared like at one point
do the studio and old stuff, right?
Like studio people saw it and they were like nearly.
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But we can't pretend that peoplehave seen the previous seven
movies, which is the same way logic by horror.
Stop using numbers, right? They never want to use the
numbers and the titles because they're scared.
If you put like a huge number, people be like, Oh my God, I
need that much homework. I'm not showing around.
So that's why they use titles. They use like final recording.
They don't. No one says Mission Impossible.
A No, what I what I don't understand is this franchise has
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never been really beholden into the past.
So just pretend like this was just let me.
Yeah, the people who know know. Like good for them.
People who don't know don't know.
It's fine. Why don't we do that?
This three showings, sometimes scenes from Dead Reckoning.
I'm like, that was two years ago.
That movie people must have seenif they're showing up for this
one, because this is a country show, the story.
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Like if you literally Sevastopolis the first movie, why would
you? Full repetition or like Acha,
this Russian submarine that that's like the opening of the
they. They they fired.
That was the previous movie opening.
It wasn't like 10 years. Old, but this reminded me how
much. Studio note, stuff like that
feels like stuff, you know, likeParamount was.
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Like also validates my feelings about dead reckoning is so
impossible to follow and such a poor like there was no villain.
There was this weird entity thatnobody understood.
The movie didn't do well like atthe box office and sure there
are theories about that. It got great reviews right, but
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then the overall sense was how whatever at least my general
feeling was mujhe khud summers near.
I didn't enjoy myself and everything that you see in this
movie, which feels like a retcon, which is all these, you
know, over explanation flashbacks, spoon feeding is
like a way to kind of rescue whatever original script that
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they had, which was similar in tone to Dead Reckoning.
You can't have that again because Nahi saw like I did not
understand that movie. What was the issue?
Surprising. I didn't have that issue.
Yeah, I don't know why I like, Iguess it's, it's depends on
where the focus was going. I think I was being carried
through the film through words like whatever, like Thomas like
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was a mystery be getting unpacked, right?
It was always like. What?
At one point the AI throws a party no to.
The. AI throws a party to lure Tom
Cruise and then the AI speaks toTom Cruise and it's like a
screensaver, like all this nonsense and ABB.
All the stuff I forgot ABB. Screensaver ABB in this who we
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are so it's a screensaver the. AI, which is why, you know, like
what I I would have preferred isjust like do the whole thing,
you know, like have the AI speaking through a human like
put them in like their ear. I mean like I am the body.
Like make it. Sentimental, which is Gabriel?
'S right like put in a box yeah which is which was great here
but now he's been disowned so weneed like a new body but find
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Someone Like You know AI pick someone else you know like
person of interest there like yeah he always has like some
face like it makes it cinematic this whole like he goes in some
empty box and as you said screensaver thing for like 5
minutes and he zaps him like a million times I'm like yeah all
right this is like emperor Palpatine minus the.
Emperor, it was so bad that scene in which he goes into this
dabba and like basically has like a phone conversation that
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is like. That's not the Mission
Impossible. I knew I was like, what happened
to McCoy? You know, they essentially
rescued the size at some point. And now you're saying that
they're like they will be blamedfor like access essentially the
movies at excess at this point That'll be in both.
It's almost like they're doing too much.
What I feel is like mission possible is added the best when
it's lean, when it's like, you know, these are the action
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scenes we want to hit and we will lose least some sorry to
get there, but they have their actions.
OK. The final thing is that plane
thing beach maybe have this likeother thing with like the
submarine thing, which was the grade because finally no one's
talking for a bike. But then and the rest of the
movie is so bloated, like it takes so long to stretch these
two parts. And I'm like, why is this so
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much story? Why do you need so much story?
No one's asking for it. It's an action.
Movie, it's I don't want to makethis comparison, but it's like
the fate of the Furious. This movie.
Oh God. Yeah.
It's like because barted away and I gave but the Tom.
Cruise. But the difference at least is
that in fossil fuel movies stillbelieve even though like Shore
Wendy's it is the main lead and gets the most screen time, they
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still believe they're on sober movie.
They still believe they're not side of movie but like Wendy's.
I will serve everyone, which is why they end up with a movie
like Feet in the Furious, because they still want to give
every 5-6 minutes to every character and give them one
cheeky line or one cheeky scene.So it gets bloated here as you
just open the board card. We said Tom Cruise is literally
in every frame. So they're not trying to serve
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every character. They're OK with their prom.
Clementier gets nothing, or if Nick Offerman is getting 3
minutes of Angela Bassett is only there to speak on the
phone. They're OK with that.
They expect even Simon Peck, like one of the top four names,
is hardly like substantial in the movie.
He doesn't have an arc, he's just there.
He's made. Like even if it if it's not
being an ensemble movie, that's still bloated.
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See the the The Fast Furious movies are self aware, right?
They're they're supposed to be funny.
Everybody knows except Vin Diesel.
Yeah, Justin Lynn gave them thatnote with Fast 5, and since then
they carry that through. Whereas this one, and I'd
suppose most of these last Macquarie Mission Impossibles,
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they're not really funny. They're in fact getting more
serious as they go along. Yeah, they've got like the
reverse. It's almost like they're going
taking the fastest reverse trendlike they were Macquarie
actually when they came they made it cheeky 4 is so much in
jokey. 4 is in Macquarie though.4 is Macquarie, though he was
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like a ghost writer. No, No 4 is Brad Bird.
But I'm saying Macquarie was involved at in at some level.
Oh, Watcher. Like he that that was his
gateway into the franchise from what I know.
Like those rewrites contribute that humor.
So he introduced that at some point.
But I'm sure Brad Bird as well as like was responsible for it.
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But like since with five he theydid that.
But now, like, as you've said, like they've just kept getting
serious and serious and more serious.
Yeah, that's what explained here.
And this movie is not like, you know, like making it easy for
itself at any moment. It's never like, you know, you
have like a 10 minute window, noone minute window.
You're. 30 millisecond. You're sitting holding yourself
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right? I don't understand the science.
Anyway. You can make up whatever you
want. We will roll with it because
this movie is anyway half fantasy at this point.
So why are you deliberately telling the audience that we are
only giving ourselves one minutewindow?
Like, why are you doing that? Because then I'm just like, how
can all of these pieces stacked together in the same exact row?
What the pieces you just described so elegantly that
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this, all of this happens? Like it's something has to go
wrong, right? Like every 10 minutes they're
like they're trying to kill Ethan and he keeps surviving.
Like why are you so obsessed? It makes me who he wants to be
like, you know, planet of the eight or something like count
full biblical metaphor, which was there and yeah.
Because I the movie at the same like ideas was doing it 3 movies
ago in which he dies into this underwater thing and some blade
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is trying to cut him and used torescue some like geeky nonsense
thing from under on. And at the same point, Simon
Beck had to do some pass some face scanner in some movie in
the same same like they were still doing crazy stuff, but it
still felt funny because they were joking around.
Dingling was outside and he was like, OK, you only have this
like blah blah like they were. They were able to merge the self
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aware and the serious, like the sincere and find the middle
ground. But now this is like they've
pushed all to the. Extreme all to the extreme.
And the most surprising thing was so, like, in Harry Potter
and like, they give him the elder one and Harry Potter's
like, no, I don't want this snaps into the movies.
And he, like, chucks it off a Cliff or whatever.
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Sure. In this one, Tom Cruise is like,
no, no, no, you have to destroy the entity in that.
And then at the end when he getsthe entity, he smiles and he's
like, ha, ha, ha. Yeah.
I'm like, what the hell was that?
Why is there like why is there about that?
Why are you leaving that hanging?
Actually, he should get he should be like then the scene
you just mentioned Harry Potter,or it should be like the Star
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Wars, like larger. I see now he gets it.
Like why the hell did you do this?
I told you to destroy it. It was right there like.
Lord of the Rings, like just everybody knows that it's a bad
sign. Like it's there's nothing good
going to come out of this. So Tom Cruise walking away with
like basically God powers is I suppose the only way Mission
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Impossible could have ended thisera of it's run.
Because Martha Sakta near Tom Cruise called both allow
Karegane. So what is the other option?
The other extreme end is like him basically becoming God.
And there you have it. I'm like, Oh my God, what did I
just watch anyway? But if you, like, say it out
loud, it sounds like the most stupidest thing you ever
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watched, right? Yeah.
But then it's like this grand sweeping biblical epic about
like humanity, free will versus choice, you know, lives of many
versus the lives of few, the hard decisions that you have to
make. Whatever played by the guy who
was, I don't know why they triedto humanize him because I think
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what we like about Tom Cruise ishow little in common he has with
the rest of us. So we don't need emotional like
anchors. It would make him.
It's fun when he's like clingingto a biplate and the IMX camera
is in his face and you're like, Oh my God, this is the fault.
But then you know he's not goingto fall because he's Tom.
Yeah, he could he, if he, like, sprouted wings in that scene and
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flew, I'll be like, OK, I buy Tom Cruise.
Exactly because the literally the previous movie he did all
about that he ran a bike off a mountain.
And flew. Launched a parachute and then
crashed into a train. All of the same scene.
So if if if you have seen all that and bought all that and
loved it and enjoyed it and actually seen him do it, like
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why do you need to then? That's the thing, right, Which
is why I preferred like Vin Diesel driving his car like and
like ziplining it across 2 like 2 cliffs as like a cannonball
thing, because then the same thing is happening in this
movie, but it's like serious. The same thing has.
Happened. It's the only moment like this.
The moment is not reminding me. The only moment.
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The movie is slightly self awarewhether it's the mails done it
always insane. No, not the Internet thing
though Hayley Atwell thing when they they've initially captured
by Gabriel and we see the entireaction scene from her just face
I. Don't want to remember this.
What is? This the, the Gabriel catches
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them. They they, they, he ties them
both of them up. And Tom Cruise fakes that he, he
has cyanide cancelled, but they find him up.
So then you see Grace's face andwe just see him.
Like you don't actually see him.Yeah, yeah, yeah.
See the end or something? That is the only self aware
moment of being done. Which is like basically he does
a Ryan Gosling in Drive but because it's PG13 we can't.
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Hear it? Yeah.
But even then, you know, the thethe moment of levity that you
spoke about, the premise of thatscene is Tom Cruise just
committed suicide. So that's like 8 second.
So then I was like distracted for a minute.
Came out of eight minute to cyanide.
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Naita. Clearly, Yeah.
You look, what do I have to lose?
What do you have to lose? They're losing billions of life.
And there's like 2 hours of movie left.
Yeah, no one's buying it. This is like when Harry Potter
dies and whatever Deathly Hallows, and then you're like
looking at your book and like, oh, I mean, A-Team top age
watcher. It's gonna happen.
It's the guys on the title Cup. Anyway, But yeah, this is not,
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I'm hoping that Tom Cruise becomes like this, I don't know,
like a elder statesman who like sits around in the office and
does things and while like. But he that, how, how could he
even imagine that he would be OKwith that role?
You know he's going to be OK with that role for like 4
minutes like in top in Maverick and then he's going to be like
no, I'm flying anyway. No, but he's like 63 at the
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earliest. He's going to be like 68 or
whatever when the next one comesout. 68 but he'll.
Do that between 63 and 68. No, not at 68.
At some point the studios are going to be like, we can't
insure you, Sir. You are, you are.
You qualify for like pension andstuff, Yeah.
That will happen at some point I'm sure.
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Half the budget of the movie wasthe insurance.
One, do you know that if Tom Cruise was like a Delhi resident
under Arvind Kejriwal, he would get a free train ticket to like
and stuff? He's that old.
He's a sin citizen, Yeah. And dude, dude is running
through an empty like, London. Which is not See the Fallout
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sequence. I was like top tier, you know?
Yeah, this one I felt they were cutting too much.
Seem forced like this. They seem like Cruz like saw the
rushes is like the cabin. I added screen, but he went he's
like, once again, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But the second time he runs is he runs out of that cave in
South Africa and why you're running.
This is pointless. Fallout has like too many good
ones like I was when you. So I had to say that sometimes I
was thinking of the dive scene into Paris and I was like, Oh my
God, what a. Scene the Halo jump.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, or even the bathroom
action scene in Fallout. Oh my God.
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Which? Is why I dislike dead reckoning.
Man, I was like yes, of Kahan dead reckoning but.
Like Fallout is like, I would say like it hit the series
almost like peak peak. We can be talking about the best
of the Lord. Yeah, but dead reckoning, see
the one action sequence that they kind of marketed the hell
out of the the bike thing. It was kind of a whatever
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underwhelming when you actually watched in the movie, like was
better in the trailer because I remember.
Yeah, because the scene itself is, you can't make a scene out
of it, right? I'm just literally driving in a
straight line. The scene is actually three-part
as he just spoke about 5 minutesago.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Him driving off, then using the
parachute or put a paraglider ina way, and then crashing into
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the train, all of that is. And the CS actually is intercut
like this stuff happening with Harry Atwell in the train with
Gabriel, which it's not. It's not just him, but says the
other thing we just spoke about the hero jump or the bike scene.
He's the centerpiece. Yeah, also a consequence of the
pandemic. I'm guessing they're reckoning a
lot of Headfell green screening,which is not, you know, the DNA
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of this franchise. Yeah, yeah, they were all like
on some cruise or something now for 3-4 months.
This one felt more like tactile,like real and stuff, so I
appreciate that. I just one thing entered for you
to die so we can get back to a continued human villain.
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