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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) ✦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction (Patreon)

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2025-10-29 10:00:14
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I couldn't help but CRY a little! 😅

This series was such a joy. Thank you so much for joining me for it! 🥰 I'm looking forward to your comments on this one! [Direct link here.]

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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) ✦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction

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Steve Mercier

The villain in this one (and the last one) annoys me greatly--I don't know if he's supposed to do that or not, but he did. Part of it is that he killed Ilsa (motherfucker!) and Luther; but, also his motivation feels very flat and mustache-twirly. That said, Dead Reckoning and this one give us Hayley Atwell's Grace, and Pom Klementieff's Paris, who are two fantastic additions to the M:I franchise. In any case, this two-parter is still a damn spectacular finale to a mostly (M:I II not included--at least not for me) spectacular action franchise. Good shit.

Zachary Ketcham-Sorg

Glad you enjoyed it and didn’t let a lot of the comments I saw about this not being a great finale affect your judgment of the film. A lot of the faces you made during the underwater scene were familiar to me, because I made them as well when I saw this in theater, lol. I’m not sure what the future holds for this franchise as Tom Cruise said this would be his last time playing Ethan and I don’t think Simon Pegg would come back without him but movie studios usually don’t let profitable franchises go until they are run into the ground. So until that unsettling but inevitable train wreck I think The Final Reckoning is the perfect send off for our characters.

Tyler Foster

One reason to suspect that M:I is done with Tom is because Tom made a deal to develop movies at Warner Bros., ending a decades-long partnership with Paramount. He is still free to make movies wherever he wants (and he has, although of the 24 feature films he's starred in since the year 2000, 15 of them were for Paramount), but the deal with WB was interpreted by many as the end of an era. Also, no matter what he says, no matter how enduring his youth is, he is 63 years old, and although I think he will still push himself, he also appears to do an incredible amount of preparation and research to understand what his body can handle, and I think he may be seeing the downward slope coming where he needs to start backing down a little bit.

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Tom seems like the kind of man who wants to live a long life and it's clear that he's smart enough to know his limits. He'll probably still be doing things in his 70s that most 70-year-olds don't do, but it certainly won't be at the level we've seen in these M:I movies.

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Yeah, Gabriel's motivation here wasn't exactly clear.

Tyler Foster

It's not communicated very well, but the idea is that after Gabriel loses the key on the train in the previous movie, The Entity realizes it can no longer rely on him to beat Ethan, and cuts him off, which is why it locks that door on him at the beginning of the film. Gabriel still wants the Entity's power, and knows that Ethan's next move will be to destroy The Entity before it unleashes nuclear Armageddon. Since Gabriel doesn't want Ethan OR The Entity to succeed, he steals the poison pill from Luther, meaning that if Ethan wants to complete his plan of destroying it, he will have to come to Gabriel, and in order to use the poison pill, he'll have to have the Podkova containing the source code in hand. Not only does this mean that Gabriel doesn't have to do the hard work of retrieving the Podkova, Gabriel also hopes that when Ethan comes to him, he will 1) be able to kill Ethan, and 2) take the Podkova from him, and he can use his possession of the poison pill and the Podkova as a way to convince the Entity to do his bidding (as well as proving his failure on the train was a one-time mistake).

Zachary Ketcham-Sorg

For sure. When I said the studio may try to continue the franchise I meant without Tom. I agree with you that he is done with the franchise. I meant the studio may try and repackage it with a different lead. They already tried once with Renner and although it didn’t stick I wouldn’t be surprised to see them try again. Tom is synonymous with MI and imo it won’t work without him but when studios think the potential is there to make more money by using an existing IP instead of a original idea, logic seems to be an afterthought.

Nathan Jasper

Personally was very happy with this film and the finale as a whole. Sad to see Luther go but if anyone was going to give their life it'd be him. Also loved some closure to the poor Langley analyst being in Alaska all this time LOL fun to see him again, not vomiting profusely this time. Have you seen the BTS of how the plane stunt was done? That was impressive to say the least!

Yoshi1990

I'm glad you liked the series. It was fun watching these movies with you.

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Thanks again Yoshi for requesting the first one and kicking it all off! Thanks for watching with me.

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I've seen very short clips of BTS, but I need to go find a longer video.

Tyler Foster

Personally, I think whatever is next will be a full reboot disconnecting itself from what we've got now, and I might also suspect they will try and return to TV with it. It would allow for the series to distinguish itself by focusing harder on the espionage aspect, and also it will free the show from having the expectation of movie-level stunts by virtue of being a series.

Tyler Foster

Obviously, 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.

HugoBoss435

Holy shit! Absolutely LOVE the new setup! It looks sooo good. Changes the vibes completely. Well done. I really like this movie. It’s a great film series finale. Great callbacks, cameos, cutscenes from all the movies (except the 2nd one 😝). Loved going through this journey with you, great reactions to all the films. Thanks so much!