May 24, 2025 • 8 mins
ICYMI: ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Mark Rahner’s review of ‘Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning’; the epic conclusion of the Tom Cruise ‘Mission Impossible’ film franchise in the Rahner Report - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app & YouTube @MrMoKelly
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from KFI,
A M six forty, Nature.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Talks, PONTIFICATESOU pop Culture, Ronner Report with Mark Ronner.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
It's Later with Mo Kelly on k IF. I am
six forty live everywhere on the iHeart App. I'm Mark Ronner.
This is the Runner Report. This part of the show
isn't the best of it's live. I'm mostly alive. Foosh
is here with me because thank you for that. Because
Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning is out for the big
holiday weekend and you need to know the score.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Here's a little bit of the trailer. Lives I'm not
defined by any one action. Our lives of the sum
of our.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Choices, everything you are, everything you've done.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Let's come to this when the need for certainty.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Is absolute and the odds are deemed impossible, the mission
falls to him.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yes it does. That's all We're going to play that
because there's a lot of running. It's a largely visual
trailer in radio not so much a visual medium. Now listen.
You almost can't review Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning like
a normal movie. It's too much of a huge event,
with too much of a huge Star that maybe only
years down the line are we're going to be able
to take a real critical look at it and see
(01:41):
how much it holds up. But let's just come clean here.
There's movies that we were into in the moment, but
we're kind of embarrassed of now.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Foosh, I'll admit this.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I think I have a positive review of at least
one of the Star Wars prequels. I'm a little embarrassed
of now, maybe all of them. In fact, we were
just so happy to have new Star Wars and we
were in an audience and there was air conditioning, and
I don't want to talk about it anymore. Or that
Ben Affleck Daredevil movie. I said, I don't want to
talk about it anyway. Right now, I'll say you'd have
(02:12):
to be kind of an a hole to look down
your nose at Mission Impossible, the Final Reckoning. It's a
huge amount of fun. It's far from perfect, but the
fun parts are such massive cinema crazy spectacle that you're
just gonna see it. Okay, you have to, but you'd
be forgiven if you didn't like the first few in
the series. And we can argue about this if there's time.
Greg Morris if you remember him from the original Mission
(02:33):
Impossible TV show. He walked out of the first one
of the movies and called it an abomination. He was right,
especially if you loved that TV show making mister phelps
the bad guy go straight to hell with that. The
TV show ran for seven seasons and it was based
on a French caper movie called Top Copy Topkapi. It's
really good. It was tense without much dialogue, and the
(02:57):
Mission Impossible TV series had a lot of this aesthetic
as Star Trek, and they were both made by Desi
lou That's right, Lucy gave us both Mission Impossible and
Star Trek. The second movie was much good either. The
third one that kind of sucked to They started getting
good around maybe the fifth one. You just had to
accept that it wasn't going to be like the show
and it was going to be more a series of
(03:18):
extreme stunts strung together with some exposition. So by the
time of the one where Tom Cruise is swinging around
the skyscraper and the Middle East and hanging on to
the side of a plane, they'd gotten a lot better.
They also show Cruse has no fear of heights, and
this new one really confirms that.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
By the way, another reason the early Mission Impossible movie
sucked is a reason they should have been great, and
credit to Cruz for at least taking a stab at this.
They wanted each Mission Impossible movie to be from a
different distinctive director in his style, So we got one
from De Palma, from John wu from jj Abrams, which
would make a good one of those One of these
things is not like the other in Sesame Street, you
(03:57):
remember that. Then Chris from a Quarry took over and
he's been the director since Rogue Nation. In twenty fifteen.
He worked with Cruz on The Reacher movie, which we
all sort of disavow now because of the Alan Richson series.
And he also did a good little crime movie called
The Way of the Gun. Put that on your list
if you haven't seen it. Mission Impossible the Final Reckoning.
The first part was Dead Reckoning that came out two
(04:19):
years ago. I'll tell you how much you really need
to know before you see this new one.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Nothing.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
If you go through them all from the first one
like Mo did, then that's fine. You're in a masochism.
Doesn't hurt anybody else. Go to town. But there are
plenty of references to the early movies in this one,
and some good and not so good attempts to tie
them all together, which reminded me of the clumsy way
they tried to do that in the awful Last Couple
Daniel Craig James Bond movies Now Dead. Reckoning involved a
(04:47):
world threatening artificial intelligence called the Entity, and in part
two they're trying to stop the Entity from destroying the
world and really playing up Ethan Hunt as the savior,
which you kind of heard a little bit of in
the trailer that sets off my cheese zoemeter. But like
I said, the movie's not perfect. In fact, the first
act is so talky and portentous and irritating that I
(05:08):
was surprised it survived in the finished movie. Some tedious,
clumsy stuff. That's when you go to the bathroom. We
got to the theater for a twelve to fifty five
am show and we were there until well after four am.
Good lord, that's because we're dedicated. Final Reckoning features a
minor character from the very first movie, and I won't
spoil that, but what a cool jackpot to bring this
(05:29):
guy back and give him a major role. I hope
it gives him a career boost. There is a callback
to that mister Phelps is the bad guy thing, which
again I hated, and the callback's unnecessary. But by that
time in the movie that reveal you just need a
cigarette and you're not going to care. What else do
you want to tell me? It was actually missus Phelps
all along? Go ahead, Now, there are a couple of
major sequences that even if you hate everything else, these
(05:52):
are going to make you feel like you're at a
Capital M movie.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
You've seen some.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Highlights and trailers of crews on a plane and other things,
and those have been playing for a long time, but
I promise you haven't seen anything close to all of it.
I was cackling a couple times. I almost grabbed Twala's arm.
I think I clapped like a carnival seal a couple
times too. Oh, it's so much fun. The villain is
played by Issai Morales, and it's pretty unmemorable as a villain,
(06:19):
but he does look like he's having a good time.
In his defense, they don't really give him much to
do in this movie except to be a delivery device
for some of the action. They go big in Final Reckoning,
they got to save the world. I don't know how
final this one really is for the series. If there
are anymore, I wouldn't mind him going a little smaller
like the old TV show Go to some completely made
(06:40):
up little South American dictatorship where it's all white American
actors in whatever kind of makeup American presidents use these
days in a constant sheen of sweat. Those are on
Paramount Plus now you can watch them top copy the
movie that they were inspired by that's on Amazon Prime.
They aren't full of extreme stunts at all, but they
are great fun. They're tense, and they're good to watch
(07:02):
if you want more. When you finally stagger out of
the Final Reckoning and use the bathroom after about three hours, okay,
now foosh, unless you have something to add. This is
where MO would usually throw back to me for a
news break.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
I was just going to ask, so, okay, you don't
have to watch a lot of or you don't have
to watch the other ones, but what about watching the
what is it Dead Reckoning?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I think at the beginning they were going to call
this one Dead Reckoning Part two, but they changed it
to Final Reckoning, so we don't know if it's the
end of.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
The series or what, you can watch it.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
But if you don't watch it, it's not going to
affect at all how you understand the plot or appreciate
all all the set pieces. If you're a completist whatever
I mean, I don't know what your tastes in movies
are because you and I argue off the air about
you know, once upon a Time in Hollywood and whatever else,
and to the point where we doubt each other's sanity.
(07:55):
But any spy action movie, I'm going to watch it.
So it's the final question is was there post credit scene?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
There is not a post credit scene. It's not a
Marvel movie.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
And then Twala and I actually made sure to stay
even though we're like holding up our phones to each other.
It's after four am. We stayed just to make sure
that's nothing.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
There's nothing there.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
All right now, Foosh, this is now your mission. Should
you choose to accept it, go ahead and throw to
me for a news break.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
All right, let's go right back to Mark Rondo the
KFI twenty four hour Newsroom.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Well done.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from KFI,
A M six forty, Nature.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Talks, PONTIFICATESOU pop Culture, Ronner Report with Mark Ronner.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
It's Later with Mo Kelly on k IF. I am
six forty live everywhere on the iHeart App. I'm Mark Ronner.
This is the Runner Report. This part of the show
isn't the best of it's live. I'm mostly alive. Foosh
is here with me because thank you for that. Because
Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning is out for the big
holiday weekend and you need to know the score.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Here's a little bit of the trailer. Lives I'm not
defined by any one action. Our lives of the sum
of our.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Choices, everything you are, everything you've done.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Let's come to this when the need for certainty.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Is absolute and the odds are deemed impossible, the mission
falls to him.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yes it does. That's all We're going to play that
because there's a lot of running. It's a largely visual
trailer in radio not so much a visual medium. Now listen.
You almost can't review Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning like
a normal movie. It's too much of a huge event,
with too much of a huge Star that maybe only
years down the line are we're going to be able
to take a real critical look at it and see
(01:41):
how much it holds up. But let's just come clean here.
There's movies that we were into in the moment, but
we're kind of embarrassed of now.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Foosh, I'll admit this.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I think I have a positive review of at least
one of the Star Wars prequels. I'm a little embarrassed
of now, maybe all of them. In fact, we were
just so happy to have new Star Wars and we
were in an audience and there was air conditioning, and
I don't want to talk about it anymore. Or that
Ben Affleck Daredevil movie. I said, I don't want to
talk about it anyway. Right now, I'll say you'd have
(02:12):
to be kind of an a hole to look down
your nose at Mission Impossible, the Final Reckoning. It's a
huge amount of fun. It's far from perfect, but the
fun parts are such massive cinema crazy spectacle that you're
just gonna see it. Okay, you have to, but you'd
be forgiven if you didn't like the first few in
the series. And we can argue about this if there's time.
Greg Morris if you remember him from the original Mission
(02:33):
Impossible TV show. He walked out of the first one
of the movies and called it an abomination. He was right,
especially if you loved that TV show making mister phelps
the bad guy go straight to hell with that. The
TV show ran for seven seasons and it was based
on a French caper movie called Top Copy Topkapi. It's
really good. It was tense without much dialogue, and the
(02:57):
Mission Impossible TV series had a lot of this aesthetic
as Star Trek, and they were both made by Desi
lou That's right, Lucy gave us both Mission Impossible and
Star Trek. The second movie was much good either. The
third one that kind of sucked to They started getting
good around maybe the fifth one. You just had to
accept that it wasn't going to be like the show
and it was going to be more a series of
(03:18):
extreme stunts strung together with some exposition. So by the
time of the one where Tom Cruise is swinging around
the skyscraper and the Middle East and hanging on to
the side of a plane, they'd gotten a lot better.
They also show Cruse has no fear of heights, and
this new one really confirms that.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
By the way, another reason the early Mission Impossible movie
sucked is a reason they should have been great, and
credit to Cruz for at least taking a stab at this.
They wanted each Mission Impossible movie to be from a
different distinctive director in his style, So we got one
from De Palma, from John wu from jj Abrams, which
would make a good one of those One of these
things is not like the other in Sesame Street, you
(03:57):
remember that. Then Chris from a Quarry took over and
he's been the director since Rogue Nation. In twenty fifteen.
He worked with Cruz on The Reacher movie, which we
all sort of disavow now because of the Alan Richson series.
And he also did a good little crime movie called
The Way of the Gun. Put that on your list
if you haven't seen it. Mission Impossible the Final Reckoning.
The first part was Dead Reckoning that came out two
(04:19):
years ago. I'll tell you how much you really need
to know before you see this new one.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Nothing.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
If you go through them all from the first one
like Mo did, then that's fine. You're in a masochism.
Doesn't hurt anybody else. Go to town. But there are
plenty of references to the early movies in this one,
and some good and not so good attempts to tie
them all together, which reminded me of the clumsy way
they tried to do that in the awful Last Couple
Daniel Craig James Bond movies Now Dead. Reckoning involved a
(04:47):
world threatening artificial intelligence called the Entity, and in part
two they're trying to stop the Entity from destroying the
world and really playing up Ethan Hunt as the savior,
which you kind of heard a little bit of in
the trailer that sets off my cheese zoemeter. But like
I said, the movie's not perfect. In fact, the first
act is so talky and portentous and irritating that I
(05:08):
was surprised it survived in the finished movie. Some tedious,
clumsy stuff. That's when you go to the bathroom. We
got to the theater for a twelve to fifty five
am show and we were there until well after four am.
Good lord, that's because we're dedicated. Final Reckoning features a
minor character from the very first movie, and I won't
spoil that, but what a cool jackpot to bring this
(05:29):
guy back and give him a major role. I hope
it gives him a career boost. There is a callback
to that mister Phelps is the bad guy thing, which
again I hated, and the callback's unnecessary. But by that
time in the movie that reveal you just need a
cigarette and you're not going to care. What else do
you want to tell me? It was actually missus Phelps
all along? Go ahead, Now, there are a couple of
major sequences that even if you hate everything else, these
(05:52):
are going to make you feel like you're at a
Capital M movie.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
You've seen some.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Highlights and trailers of crews on a plane and other things,
and those have been playing for a long time, but
I promise you haven't seen anything close to all of it.
I was cackling a couple times. I almost grabbed Twala's arm.
I think I clapped like a carnival seal a couple
times too. Oh, it's so much fun. The villain is
played by Issai Morales, and it's pretty unmemorable as a villain,
(06:19):
but he does look like he's having a good time.
In his defense, they don't really give him much to
do in this movie except to be a delivery device
for some of the action. They go big in Final Reckoning,
they got to save the world. I don't know how
final this one really is for the series. If there
are anymore, I wouldn't mind him going a little smaller
like the old TV show Go to some completely made
(06:40):
up little South American dictatorship where it's all white American
actors in whatever kind of makeup American presidents use these
days in a constant sheen of sweat. Those are on
Paramount Plus now you can watch them top copy the
movie that they were inspired by that's on Amazon Prime.
They aren't full of extreme stunts at all, but they
are great fun. They're tense, and they're good to watch
(07:02):
if you want more. When you finally stagger out of
the Final Reckoning and use the bathroom after about three hours, okay,
now foosh, unless you have something to add. This is
where MO would usually throw back to me for a
news break.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
I was just going to ask, so, okay, you don't
have to watch a lot of or you don't have
to watch the other ones, but what about watching the
what is it Dead Reckoning?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I think at the beginning they were going to call
this one Dead Reckoning Part two, but they changed it
to Final Reckoning, so we don't know if it's the
end of.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
The series or what, you can watch it.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
But if you don't watch it, it's not going to
affect at all how you understand the plot or appreciate
all all the set pieces. If you're a completist whatever
I mean, I don't know what your tastes in movies
are because you and I argue off the air about
you know, once upon a Time in Hollywood and whatever else,
and to the point where we doubt each other's sanity.
(07:55):
But any spy action movie, I'm going to watch it.
So it's the final question is was there post credit scene?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
There is not a post credit scene. It's not a
Marvel movie.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
And then Twala and I actually made sure to stay
even though we're like holding up our phones to each other.
It's after four am. We stayed just to make sure
that's nothing.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
There's nothing there.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
All right now, Foosh, this is now your mission. Should
you choose to accept it, go ahead and throw to
me for a news break.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
All right, let's go right back to Mark Rondo the
KFI twenty four hour Newsroom.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Well done.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty
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