Ep. # 105 - Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning - A LAUGH RIOT!

Flashing back to episode #72 of Fabulous Film & Friends way back in 2023, we covered Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 and so we here on FFF felt duty bound to our fans to give our take on its follow up and what could very possibly be the final sequel to the entire M:I franchise, 2025’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Pom Klementieff, Esai Morales, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Henry Czerny and Angela Bassett. 

Keeping continuity, my guests this week are returnees from the 2023 podcast, my blockbuster crew David Johnson, DMD and Burton Brown. 

Does anyone remember what happened in Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1? 

Here’s a callback to my synopsis from that podcast:

Ethan Hunt and his team of Mission Impossiblers have to go rogue yet again to stop the world from  yada yada yada. Same old crap megalomaniac with a weapon this time it’s AI. Or something.  Esai Morales is involved. I fell asleep twice so I didn’t quite catch the relationship between the AI and Morales’ Gabriel character.

This movie seemed like more of the same old same old. But as a Tom Cruise running movie, it’s a masterpiece, reaching an operatic Death in Venice level of running sophistication. 

So how does 2025’s big follow up differ?

This time Ethan Hunt and his rag tag team of crack superspies have to stop the AI Entity from blowing up the world as well as Gabriel from trying to harness its unbelievable power. 

Yet, instead of  running extravaganza, we are treated to the biggest boldest, hands down, accept no substitutes granddaddy of all info dump and flashback movies. 

Is it the best, the worst or somewhere in the middle of the series?

Find out!

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