Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) β¦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction
Added 2025-10-29 10:00:14 +0000 UTCI couldn't help but CRY a little! π
This series was such a joy. Thank you so much for joining me for it! π₯° I'm looking forward to your comments on this one! [Direct link here.]
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Holy shit! Absolutely LOVE the new setup! It looks sooo good. Changes the vibes completely. Well done. I really like this movie. Itβs a great film series finale. Great callbacks, cameos, cutscenes from all the movies (except the 2nd one π). Loved going through this journey with you, great reactions to all the films. Thanks so much!
HugoBoss435
2025-10-31 22:04:31 +0000 UTCObviously, I know what you mean, but it's also pretty funny for you to say "facts" in response to the movie talking about the dangers of widespread digital misinformation. One of my big takeaways from The Final Reckoning is...Tom Cruise is a secret TV-head. "Severance," "Parks and Rec" (or "The Last of Us"), "Sherlock," "Mindhunter," "Ozark," "Ted Lasso" -- almost every supporting player here has a notable contemporary TV show on their resume, and it feels like Tom must have seen all of it and then thought, "let's get that person!" As you say, there is quite a bit of preamble in this one, and I agree that it could've been cut down quite a bit. Personally, while I liked both movies, I agree they are a step down from Rogue Nation and Fallout. That said, I do think the disappointment led people to downplay that plane sequence, which honestly has to be one of the greatest stunt sequences ever caught on film. There was a story before the movie came out about a stunt that Tom did 16 times, and wanted to do for a 17th, but McQuarrie vetoed it, saying that it was one of the few things Tom's ever did that he straight-up couldn't watch on the day. I assumed it was the incredible shot where he grabs the wheels of Gabriel's plane, while his plane not only tumbles out of the sky but falls apart as it goes. I hadn't even considered -- even though I should know better -- that it was the flaming parachute, which is also real, shot at 7,500 feet in the air. Each burn could only last three seconds before he had to lose the burning one and switch to the backup, and some of his jumps involved him operating a handheld camera at the same time. His 16 takes set a Guinness Book World Record. As I said on the last one, I would've loved to have seen what these movies would've been without COVID delays, which I think hampered what they wanted to do. (You asked if Erika was the President in Dead Reckoning, and she actually was, but COVID restrictions prevented her from filming, so the only evidence of this is a photo of her on the wall in the office during the opening of that film, when Ethan gasses everyone.) Ultimately, I think the two-parter would've been improved by exploring Ethan's doubt a little more clearly. He encounters a man from his past, who succeeded in taking someone away from him, a reminder that he can't save everyone. That man is wielding an AI that believes it knows how to predict everything that he could possibly do. In this one, he also learns that following his instincts helped unleash that very AI, even if he couldn't have known that would happen. It's a good premise for Ethan to start second-guessing himself, even after all of this time. Within this, Ilsa and Luther should be Ethan's reassurance, both of them losses, but losses that those people were willing to accept because they know themselves, and because they're unwilling to flinch just because someone is challenging them. Within that context, there can also be this suggestion that Ilsa was not sacrificing herself so much as protecting Grace, who then turns out to be essential to saving the world. That said, what I do like (even though it's possible it could've been clearer, since some people have the opposite takeaway) is that the end feels like a metacommentary on the franchise, and a reminder that while Tom does the stunts and gets much of the credit, everything he does is a team effort. It requires the help of many, many people. And if enough people work together, we can make the world into a better place.
Tyler Foster
2025-10-30 20:51:26 +0000 UTCThanks again Yoshi for requesting the first one and kicking it all off! Thanks for watching with me.
kaiielle
2025-10-30 16:01:49 +0000 UTCI'm glad you liked the series. It was fun watching these movies with you.
Yoshi1990
2025-10-30 07:18:21 +0000 UTC
