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Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1 Reaction! (Patreon)

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2024-01-01 18:00:05
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)

Edited Reaction Alongside the regular multi-part full, you now have the option of watching an edited version of the full movie reaction with 10-15mins of Picture-in-Picture. You can watch this edit in the player, or alternatively you can download it to your computer using the button underneath each part.

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William

Oooooh, can’t wait to watch this one with you. I’ve been mildly obsessed with this one, specifically how they made it.

Ryan

And so we reach my current choice for the best film of the series, and the fourth in a row to reach that point. More than anything else, it's down to how firmly entrenched Christopher McQuarrie now is as the head creator, allowing for way more character development than anyone else had dared. This includes the series delving for the first time into the IMF's backstory from the original show, that they're former criminals given a chance to use their skills for good. Which, yeah, is pretty jarring to only learn now, along with Ethan's arch-nemesis that we're only now learning about (I wouldn't be surprised if this was originally written as Lane, but they had to change it when Sean Harris finally put his foot down and refused to come back again), but the rest of the movie works so great that I was willing to go along with it. I'm writing this before watching the reaction, so I can only imagine how pissed you are at Ilsa's death. And I was too for a while, but I've gotten more okay with it since A. there's just barely enough wiggle room for the next film to reveal she survived (it's not like this series has ever been very worried about realism anyway), and B. the advantage of multiple returning female characters plus a new one who's clearly being set up for more means you can kill one without it coming off like you view all women as disposable. It was also a huge thrill to see Henry Czerny back as Kitteridge after nearly 30 years, especially when I read an interview that revealed he deeply loved working on the first film and asked if he could come back for every single sequel, but various real world issues kept it from happening until now. I was especially happy to see another one-take mask scene where you just want to go through frame-by-frame and see how they did it; I'm pretty sure the "mirror" is actually an entire flipped recreation of the set with the two actresses on either side. And finally I have to shout out the final sequence of climbing through the vertical train, where you can just perfectly imagine a bunch of writers and stunt people around a table giddily throwing in one complication after another as soon as it pops in their heads. It may not be strictly necessary for the story, but I'm glad they were able to have that fun and have it turn out so well onscreen. The series is actually in kind of a precarious place now, as it's been announced the eighth film won't be titled Dead Reckoning Part 2, and no one knows if that means they're just giving it its own title like Avengers Endgame or they're just completely skipping over the second part. And either way, it's going to be awkward as hell having this "Part 1" just hanging there in the list of titles, so I imagine they're panicking a bit over how to deal with that. I'm so glad you ended up liking this series as much as you did, which I had some doubts about going in, especially with the second film. Always a thrill to see that happen.

Thomas Corp

Yeah, there really is no goddamn reason why this movie needed to be this long. It is amazing how I can go to the theater, see Killers of the Flower Moon, see that with no problem, I’m invested in it all three and a half hours; the length of the film’s not even a concern, and it ends up being my favorite film of 2023. And yet, I rent and watch this most recent Mission Impossible film, at home, and the thing goddamn DRAGS like a motherfucker. I am happy to hear you weren’t bored with this. I was. The sequences that proved the most tiresome were the train sequences and the car chase. It is amusing to hear you say that due to Grace driving through significant portions of the chase sequence, the interminable length of said chase is more tolerable. It was a bit of an endurance test for me, and I yelled at one point, “I do not comprehend; what fucking genre are we going for here!?” Similarly, good to hear you had the same reaction as I did when Ethan escapes the death by train, because yeah, the way they edited that, it looked like he didn’t get out of the cock-a-doodie car. This series is like the James Bond franchise in that the villain can make or break the film. Here, it’s odd that again we’re trying to push an arch-nemesis for Ethan after we’ve already had Philip Seymour Hoffman as Davian serving as the Moriarty with a strong Chigurh energy, (STILL the greatest villain of this franchise too.) Sean Harris as Lane who ended up more of a Blofeld archetype. This film, it felt like they were trying to make Gabriel be a sort of suave and sophisticated Heath Ledger Joker type, which isn’t bad, and I do love Esai Morales, but like you said, he’s kind of not given all that much to do, though you also note there is still a part two, so maybe we’re judging too harshly. I knew you’d love Pom Klementieff in this. I don’t know what the fuck her character Paris is on, but I’m here for the energy and fashion. Shame it seems she’s killed, though they say she has a pulse, so... Luther and Benji felt somewhat sidelined, though they do get some strong scenes. Nice to see Vanessa Kirby gets to be a recurring woman in this. Alas, her character’s mom never got to be recurring as they confirm her death. Now you mention it, that is a good question of is it a requirement for the Mission Impossible women to have impressive bone structures. I did enjoy Hayley Atwell as Grace. Hayley’s good in anything I’ve seen her in. She was good in this film. I’m with you that in her place, I’d be saying, “Not even GOD would trust you, Ethan!” Shea Whigham, I enjoyed his bringing a similar energy that he brought when he was in Fargo, quite liked you liked him too. I needed a LOT more of Cary Elwes, Indira Varma, and Mark Gatiss. You and I were on the EXACT same page of calling Ethan out when he tried to play chicken, I loved your comment of “What do you mean it doesn’t work like that? Have you watched the last six movies?” Me, I was yelling, “Don’t fucking pretend you’re not salivating over this! After all that fucking shit in the second one, plus in the fifth one, the jumping onto the goddamn airplane, THIS is going to scare you!? My ass this is going to scare you!” I would have laughed so hard if he went splat. Now to Ilsa. I knew about her getting fridged in advance as the internet got LOUD about that when this came out. Seeing her death was some bullshit. I didn’t even like the character as much as you did, and it was fucking bullshit. Your reaction, Jess, that broke my heart, seeing how it upset you. Now, there has been chatter that Ilsa’s death could be reversed, I see Ryan commented on it. The information I currently possess says she is dead. Or I don’t know, maybe not. Maybe they will pull something out of their ass in the next film to say, “Somehow, Ilsa returned.” As of now, it seems she is dead, it is bullshit, and Jess, everything you had to say on that is much better than the ranting I went through. I second and support everything you said about this franchise’s SERIOUSLY fundamental problem when it comes to female representation. I need a beer. So, in the end, I am glad you had an enjoyable enough time with this series. We still have at least one more. I tell you what, Jess, if it wins in a poll, then for you, I will watch it. Assuming you wish to put that on the poll and any of the subsequent ones as Tom Cruise has said he wants to keep making these. I assume we’ll keep getting them until Tom Cruise is in his eighties, or he gets himself killed trying to do more over the top male macho bullshit, whichever comes first. For the next film, if you want to put it in a future poll, I won’t argue. And if it wins, I will see it, you have my word. Until then, again, I am glad you enjoyed the films well enough. Sorry I’m an asshole not holding the same level of enjoyment. In any case, Happy New Year, Jess.

William

Fwiw, I love long films…but don’t really consider this one to be a “long” movie. But hey, that’s just me — I enjoy epic stories. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

WastedPo

I haven't yet watched the reaction, but count me among those who were disappointed in MI7. It really all comes down to the cynical decision to fridge Ilsa, a decision which colored nearly the entire plot. I know it sounds silly to condemn an action movie for the way it portrays its characters, but this is Christopher McQuarrie, screenwriter of "Edge of Tomorrow" and "The Usual Suspects." He's a smart, capable writer. And thus far in the M.I. entries he was part of, they managed to avoid such lazy tropes, subvert expectations, and do well by the female characters. So yeah, I expect more out of this franchise. If I just wanted mindless action, there are plenty other dumb movies I could turn to. I think it wouldn't have been so annoying to me if it wasn't so clearly obvious that Atwell was meant to be the "romantic replacement" to Ferguson. Seriously, the majority of the runtime is devoted to the "enemies to lovers" trope being played out between Ethan and Grace - and that would be fine if this were the first entry in a franchise. Except it's the 7th, and we already know and care about the characters. So nothing really sits right with the audience as the playful banter between Ethan and Grace unfolds. Nor does the ending feel right when Ethan comforts Grace in his arms. Additionally, the *way* that Ilsa goes out feels especially lazy. Gabriel says that "the Entity" requires a sacrifice between Ilsa or Grace? That's completely ludicrous. Why? It's like McQuarrie couldn't think of any justification for getting rid of Ilsa, so he just arbitrarily has the computer program decide it must happen. And then when Ilsa ends up on that bridge, it feels totally pointless. Grace didn't have to be there in the first place. And frankly, Ilsa would not have been beaten by Gabriel in hand-to-hand combat. At least she could've gone out doing something meaningful, gone out like a bad-ass. But nope. And then the rest of the characters go on their merry way with barely a line of dialogue of sadness. Contrast this with MI3 in which Kerri Russell--who we literally didn't know at all--was given a lot of bad-ass things to do when she died. Her death subsequently wrecked the rest of the M.I. team, and she was even able to affect the plot from beyond-the-grave by sending Ethan a microdot posthumously. Honestly, I think I'd rather they had simply not had Ilsa appear at all if they truly insisted on making Atwell the new female love interest.

YodatheHobbit

It's funny, even though the movie is fairly long, it really goes by fast for me. I've watched it twice now and it felt short to me both times. I actually wish it felt longer. My main problem with this movie is that the ending feels like nothing happened other than they survived. We already knew about the key being for the submarine, so it felt quite anticlimactic to me and not much of a cliffhanger. I understand that Ethan now knows, but that didn't feel like enough. The movie also didn't have as many cool action sequences and set pieces as I expected. It had a couple of big stunts, but since we saw those in the marketing they felt a bit disappointing. Most of the stunts in my opinion were fairly common place as far as things I've never seen before. I got the impression that the film tried to make me think it's more epic than it actually was. The big jump and train sequences were the highlights, the rest - the car chase being fairly commonplace to me. I know they shot most of it for real, but it didn't feel that different from most car chases. The stunts of the last film felt bigger to me. Liked all of the actors performances and story, yet I thought there would be more to "Grace's" character than just a good pickpocket/thief. I actually thought that was her who "shot" Iisa at the beginning, but that turned out not to be the case.