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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) ✦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction (Patreon)

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2025-08-19 01:00:05
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2025-08-19 17:09:16
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Definitely the most intense one so far!

Please enjoy! Looking forward to your comments! [Direct link here.]

EDIT: ALL IS FIXED and reaction link has been replaced. So sorry again!

✦ KL

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Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) ✦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction

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HugoBoss435

Yay! I have something to do now. Watching this asap!

Steve Mercier

Arrrrrrrgh! Have to get up in the morning...fuck.

Nathan Jasper

My excitement in the theater seeing Josh Holloway only for him to get shot almost immediately LOL While Nyqvist doesn't have the intensity of PS Hoffman, I did love that Nyqvist's villain was an absolute nihilist. No money, no greed, just burn it all. I like that he had a principle and wasn't selling it to get rich. He thought that's what needed to happen and much like Thanos he was the one that had the will to do it. The Burj Khalifa climb was absolutely real (with safety measures in place of course) and Tom did in fact have his picture taken on top just chilling lol Basically the Burj Khalifa climb through the sandstorm is the top-tier sequences for me. Climbing the tallest building in the world with practically nothing and a chase in an environment where you're basically blind with just a failing GPS to assist... insane. Sabine getting kicked out the window...well, karma's a fickle thing. I guess one could say she was Moreau trouble than she was worth! (ba dum tss) Glad we got to see Julia in the end to give us that closure. It's just a shame Ethan can only ensure her happiness but can never have happiness himself. But that's the job.

Richard Flores

I am abolutely cackling at your joke with the rimshot.

Nathan Jasper

Thank you! Glad someone enjoyed it haha

Nathan Jasper

KL, idk if it's because I had headphones for your reaction but the outro commentary's music was so loud I couldn't make out what you were saying

Nathan Jasper

tried without headphones, same effect

Movies with KL

Oh my god, that's the second movie reaction in a row that I've done that. 😭 Fixing now.

Nathan Jasper

Thanks for fixing it, definitely agree on your points and I look forward to the next one!

Guy Gordon

Yeah, watching the behind the scenes stuff at the Burj is insane. Safety cables or not, that would be a MAJOR nope from me.

Tyler Foster

The broken equipment is very much Brad Bird exercising muscles he formed at Pixar. I forget if they had a term for this, but on the Toy Story commentary, there is discussion of this philosophy about taking away obvious solutions to see if they can then organically write themselves out of the corner they've created. The example given in that commentary is, okay, there's a rocket attached to Buzz, and they've put a match in Woody's holster, but what if the match gets blown out? What if it's not that easy? Hendricks, aka Cobalt, has sort of a negative reputation among the M:I villains. Perhaps the idea was that Hoffman was such a BIG villain, they felt had better do something different so as not to feel too similar or draw comparisons. In any case, there is a deleted scene I wish they'd left in the film. It's like four minutes long, and the movie is very propulsive, so maybe they thought that was too much of a lull in the action, but Nyqvist is great in the scene, and it gives the character more of a presence and a personality. You can watch it here, starting at 6:47 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMoHty3e_DM When Ethan goes to meet Sergei and talk to the arms dealer, the signal of who to meet up with is "Dunhill lighter." This is the same signal used by the arms dealer Max in the first Mission: Impossible, and the blonde man he meets with the homemade shroud is actually the same actor from that movie, with the same shroud. The arms dealer that Ethan meets was supposed to actually be Max, but Paramount wouldn't pay Vanessa Redgrave's asking price, so the arms dealer was changed to someone else. If only they knew how successful these would become going forward; I really wish they'd had been able to make that cameo work. In actuality, Paramount was getting a bit of cold feet about the series at the time they made this movie. Cruise's reputation was down, thanks to the "Oprah" appearance. The studio brought in Renner with the thought that he would be a replacement for Cruise, but as Cruise was also a producer, he threw around a little muscle, holding onto his leading man status while keeping Renner anyway. The result re-established Cruise at the box office and made Mission: Impossible into Paramount's most successful franchise for about a decade. Win-win! I believe that Ving Rhames was simply shooting another movie during the production of this movie, which is why he only has a cameo. I won't get into why, obviously, but I will say this: my personal favorite Mission: Impossible is Rogue Nation.

HugoBoss435

Couldn’t make out your after movie thoughts, couldn’t hear your voice over the music. Are you going to re-upload it or we just gotta wait for the YouTube edit eventually?

Movies with KL

Check the post. It was changed while you were watching. 🤙

Paul Howard

One of the things I really like about how Tom Cruise went about making these movies calls back to your comment about "teamwork". He really isn't afraid to share the spotlight. From this movie onwards it really feels like everyone is completely involved and given plenty of screen time, not just him. Without spoiling people added in later movies I'll mention a few things some of those others people have said. In one case, he flew them out from a film they were making for a lunch meeting which was followed by them spending the afternoon with his stunt team seeing what they could do and be willing to be trained to do. In another case, someone asked him were they could learn to sky-dive and he said he'd "get back to them", only to present them with a pre-paid course on stunt sky-diving. Ultimately, one thing I've learnt from comments he's made about other peoples movies, not just his own, Tom Cruise _loves_ cinema, so the more people who can do cool movie things similar to what he likes to do, the move great cinema will exist. That's something can really get behind.

WastedPo

I really love Ghost Protocol, though I agree with you that it's perplexing how little the main villain is fleshed out. Lea Seydoux's assassin character, while also having very scant dialogue, is far more memorable--to the degree that I wonder if somehow the script should've been tweaked to make her the main villain. That said, like you, I love the team dynamic. It weirdly reminds me of a good MCU movie in that regard. Even though I enjoyed the hectic tone of JJ Abrams' work in MI3, I also really liked how carefully storyboarded Ghost Protocol felt. That, plus the lighthearted humor, and the Rube Goldberg like climax in the car garage felt like Brad Bird's animation roots coming through. This is also around the time when Cruise starts playing Ethan as "put upon," approaching everything with a subtle exasperation and fallibility. I find this very winning. It works so well to have that contrast between his hesitancy to climb the Burj Khalifa and Benji having to talk him into it. (Further proof that when they made MI 2, they just didn't "get it." From a storytelling perspective, it feels meaningless for Ethan to climb that mountain in the opening, essentially risking his life without any reason to, and expressing no relatable fear.) I've worked out a mathematical equation: Ethan in MI3 and Ghost Protocol = John McClane/good. Ethan in MI2 = Steven Seagal/bad. Fun music touch: I really like how at the very end of Ghost Protocol when we see Julia again, Giacchino incorporates the "Julia" theme into the score that he'd written for MI3. I like it when composers do that "John Williams" thing where they assign specific themes to characters. *** Heads up for "Rogue Nation": There is a scene in it that I find cinematically brilliant. Oddly, it's one that people never list when asked to name their favorite Mission Impossible scenes, so I guess the brilliance in this specific scene must be kind of subtle.

Tyler Foster

Will be interested to hear what scene that is when that reaction goes up. As for Hendricks, if you've never seen the deleted scene I mentioned in my comment, check it out. Nyqvist is really good in it.

Vincent Hollow

I always wonder with these lengthy franchises at what point does someone say "Do we really have to keep numbering these?"

WastedPo

Ah, that's interesting about the deleted scene. Thanks for that. I can understand the worry that including it would've messed with the pacing. But I think in this case, with the actor otherwise not having a ton of screentime, they maybe should've left it in. Regarding the scene in Rogue Nation that I was alluding to: I originally had dropped a little hint about what is so good about it, but then I was worried it was giving too much info. I'll definitely talk about it after the eventual reaction though.