Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (Christopher McQuarrie, May 23, 2025) Movie • Page 19

they did this for several scenes/references to past movies

apparently it was bc they tested the movie without it and people didn't know what was happening/references were being made but really feels like they overcorrected lol

 

Holy fuck the fire was actually real and not CGI!!

 

That's fucking crazy and makes me like this movie even more

 

yeah that is insane haha

 

Dude like how did they know the fire wouldn’t spread down the other wires to tom that’s fucking insane

 

I can’t believe they actually added a cult story to this movie with Tom being in Scientology. Other than that laugh, I really enjoyed the movie.

 

The difference of course is that Scientology is true... right?

 

in order to avoid being declared a suppressive person, I have to agree to your point

 

A lot of the plot points made little sense but idc because I really enjoy this. Felt like a proper send-off of the series. Absolutely loved the underwater submarine sequence, felt like an adventure movie. And Gabriel’s final moment was too good

 

It would depend entirely on the size of the bomb. There’s actually a website where you can see the blast radius capabilities of various nukes - NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein

Pretty sure Gabriel said that they were megaton bombs, which it’s ridiculous to imagine a private person getting possession of any nuke but especially one that big lol

But looking at that map, I don’t think it’s hard to imagine that a biplane could get out of the thermal radiation radius of a 1-2megaton nuke within 15-20min. Would almost certainly get affected by the light blast damage, but that probably wouldn’t be fatal if the plane is able to stay operational

 

This was a huge mess, but the sub and biplane make it worthy of the series.

There is almost nothing worth keeping in the first hour.

Way too much people talking in dark rooms. Cut out the first hour and add a leg of the mission with the team working together in an exotic/historic location that allows the movie to breathe a little and they'd be right back on track. Would like to see this re-cut, there should be plenty of footage to make it much better.

1. Ghost Protocol

2. Fallout

3. Mission: Impossible

4. Rogue Nation

5. MI3

6. Dead Reckoning

7. The Final Reckoning

8. MI2

 

Kind of want to put this below 2, my criteria mostly being which movie will I reach for more often to rewatch. I can't see wanting to rewatch the first half of this very often at all, but the sub scene is so fucking cool and spooky, it's doing a ton of heavy lifting.

Also shout out to Rolf Saxon, I thought him coming back wouldn't add much, but that guy has such pathos in his performance, it was really nice.

With Whigham, Offerman, and McCallany, this movie really has a monopoly on square-headed men.

Tramell Tillman also steals the show in his few minutes of screen time.

 

While I enjoyed this well enough I've been trying to pin down what feels off about this movie for me (apart from the length and pacing which have already been talked about to death), and ultimately I think it's this: nearly every major scene/set piece takes place in a cave, bunker, submarine, or otherwise dark and claustrophobic place. From what I can remember:

-Opening scenes are Ethan/Grace in an underground jail cell, which flows into Luther's scene in the tunnel with the bomb
-Ethan locked inside a literal coffin
-Ethan goes to the government bunker inside a mountain, where much of the film's remaining dialogue takes place
-Underwater stuff, where Ethan is either on a ship, inside *multiple* submarines, or in a decompression chamber
-Rest of the team is taken hostage inside an arctic cabin during a snowstorm
-Final portion of the movie for everyone but Ethan/Gabriel takes places inside a South African mine

The biplane stuff is obviously incredible and finally allows the movie to really breath, but there is a tangible lack of iconic, bustling locations that define the rest of the franchise and I always look forward to them incorporating into the action: Vienna, Burj Khalifa, Casablanca, Paris, Rome. For a movie obsessed with humanity's demise, Final Reckoning's world feels so oddly impersonal and devoid of people.

 

Undeniably a mess, but still a lot of fun. Gonna miss these.

 

A bit disappointing, but not bad. Plane sequence at the end absolutely rules, maybe the best of the series, but I feel like that was the only big stunt of the movie. Just too long and convoluted, pretty bored for a lot of it. Ethan and Grace's weird intimacy felt super forced and uncomfortable. Not even a mention of Ilsa is strange.

Having the final two movies of this franchise share the same bland villain and AI is just a real bummer.

 

Thought the underwater/submarine section was incredible

 

Liked Gabriel more in this than Part One, he's goofy overall but Doughboys swayed me into the AI villain being a good choice

 

both insane takes

 

haven't listened to the Doughboys ep yet, but Gabriel is just fucking bland. He has no charisma, charm, or menace. He's just a kind of handsome guy who talks quietly. I do think AI is going to fuck us big time but it's not an entertaining villain

 

I don't mind him in this, but him as the final villain, stacked up against PSH, Henry Cavill and Jon Voight - he just doesn't compare.

 

he's barely a character in the last one, just a sentient twirling mustache

 

That would be pretty cool.

 

It's so weird to me how this movie doesn't really show them grabble with Ilsa or Luther's death AT ALL but has multiple flashbacks to Ethan's team dying in the first movie. Just insane that we don't see Benji react to Luther's death at all

 

damn