I hate that I didn't put that together until you said it. Like I knew that's what the bomb was doing, but didn't recognize that it put them to use in that scene

ooooh!! that makes sense!! I feel silly now because I've seen the movie twice but didn't piece that together lol

It's like metal gear

​@@ryanmadej6694nanomachines son

While reading this I said aloud, "Yup. Yup. Yup!" Of course, that's what it is. There are a couple of loose threads in this "Part", and I think you've solved this one.

You just blew my mind.

I have a hard time believing that a professional of Gabriel's caliber could be fooled up close by someone who just stuck a knife into.

@@andrewwebster4348Paris also survived a knife to the chest

also they specifically say before that, that they can’t trust anything outside of this room

@@andrewwebster4348 in ghost protocol Ethan revealed to Brandt that he had faked Julia's death as well so I think hes pretty good at it at this point. Of course its possible shes really dead, but I refuse to believe they would do Ilsa that dirty after Tom had them cut the kiss st the end of GP because he thought it would undermine her character.

I was wondering why his character felt so familiar!

Agent Carter season 1 as well

Hollywood casting has a way to come around!

Don't forget the garbage that was the live action version of Death Note on Netflix.

Am I the only one that just realized this guy and Gary Sinise are not the same guy?

Got'em

Dead Reckoning Part Fun more like Fun Reckoning Part Fun

Pfft.

More like dead reckoning part good(does it always have to rhyme?) 😜

This guy gets it ^^

you have to make her watch fallout, the best all out action movie ever imo

@@rangerboyvlogs9716 John Wick 4 tho

@@yawns3004 - On the plus side, there are a lot of amazing action films waiting for you to watch them.

@@yawns3004 John Wick appears in the next mission impossible movie

This was also my GF's first MI film. She will not be returning. lol

Didn't they filmed it already? From what I know this movie was filmed in 2020

@@antonioc.5778Yup, part 2 is pretty much already done

we get part2 in 2025 I guess

It's indefinitely delayed at the current moment

​@@mrevilduckyhow? The movie is done. Just needs edited

the fact that her character had so little to do besides being killed off makes me think she’s not really dead and she will play a crucial role in defeating the entity

I don't think she's dead either. Taking everyone off the board seems like the best way to counter Project 2501, I mean The Entity. Seriously though, I love that they've incorporated the The Puppetmaster plot from Ghost in the Shell into the M:I Franchise, as a metaphor for the threat of AI being handed the reigns of human stories.

I hope she’s not dead. I didn’t really like graces character, because all she did before she joined up was consistently betray Ethan, so I didnt get why they wanted her on board. And something about the way it was like “okay that one’s dead, now this one is in” - and didn’t mention her death for the entire rest of the movie - felt slightly gross

Ilsa was too badass to stay alive

@@ribby9069 There's that line where Grace says, "She died because of me," and Luther (almost correcting her) says, "You're alive because of her." The IMF team is all about rejecting binary choices. They are the embodiment of a third option. Ethan is going to protect everyone. In that way, he's the anti-Bond. I think Grace is a good addition. The real test of her character was posing as the white widow, getting everything she wanted from Kittredge, and then rejecting it because she understood what was at stake. Then she lifts both keys. That was a high wire act without a net.

Natural chemistry and they don’t force humour so it doesn’t get grating i guess

Because they are real friends I would wager. Much like their sometimes collaborators @ComicPop

Said this months ago. They ALWAYS put me in a good mood. It's magical🫠

Fr, I've never encountered such natural chemistry and awesome banter. Can't count the number of times I burst out laughing during the podcasts

That’s why I love the movie commentaries. Just long form random James and Maso hilarious conversations

She is stunning

She's so captivating on screen. Loved her chemistry with Tom Cruise.

She used to be a dude -- right? ;)

Her characters was terrible lmao

I thought she looked better in this than in captain america and that was 10 years ago

Lol yeah. Seeing the key in the first trailer, I was not prepared for how important it would be 😂

Nice one!

Blue harvest?

@haroldnecmann7040 it's an interesting coincidence because it was also the writing title for the first Star Wars movie

Well done.

👎👎👎

I dont think she's really dead

@@QwkDrw84 I agree

Me too she was just discarded in favor of the new favorite thief

@@kar1s3n yea, they had originally planned to shoot in Austria and blow up a real hitsorical bridge, but with covid delays the local community there was able to stop them. That's why they had to shoot the train sequence elsewhere.

Same here. As much I liked Grace and thought she was a great new addition, I felt like Ilsa was treated poorly in the film. She was such a badass, nuanced character.

i loved when tom cruise said it's mission impossible - dead reckoning: part one-ing time and then proceeded to mission impossible - dead reckoning: part one all over the place

THANK YOU

Wow! You should write for Big Bang Theory season 14!

I also throught for sure the AI was going to take control of the car since the car loudly announced "SELF DRIVING MODE ACTIVATED." The Entity didn't really do anything to try and stop the train heist while it was happening. The Entity could've driven Benji off the cliff as a way to stop Ethan from getting to the train. However, I think they didn't do that since it was a BMW product placement, and BMW probably didn't want them to show one of their cars being hacked into and killing it's driver.

That is a very good point about the self driving car. I feel like that was maybe in an earlier draft or something. Why introduce that and then not use it?

Thinking about this more: if there was a cut scene in which the entity took control of the self-driving car, that would explain why Benji shouted "I am having a very stressful day!" When he was in the car. I thought that line was weird because nothing really happened to him, at least as compared to the stress the other characters were under. I would bet a lot of money there used to be a scene in which he had a stressful battle with the entity controlled car.

It feels like it only comes in when it's convenient to add an obstacle like "the satellites are down!" And does almost nothing else. Them needing to go analog at the end doesn't meaningfully disrupt their operation. Benji uses self driving mode on his car for christ's sake, that wasn't something the AI could hack?

As soon as it said it was Activating Self Driving mode, I was sure the car was going to try to kill him, but nothing happened.

agreed

That's the idea, Tom Cruise represents the last of the action stars. People used to go to the cinema to watch Schwarzenegger, Travolta, Van Dame, Willis, etc. Not to watch Terminator or Predator or whatever

Yes, the series generally is not a box office monster. Any improvement in performance from previous films is the result of people knowing what they will get with a Tom Cruise movie.

You left this comment twice but it was funny both times

You combined 2 different movies in one thing!

That's the name of the movie!

It tried so hard to be skynet without understanding what made Arnie and the t-1000 terrifying. I’m also a fan of the series and I thought this one was one of the weakest in the series. Many decisions made about the direction the story took and certain characters left me confused and frustrated. I’m glad others were able to enjoy it, but man this one didn’t sit well with me at all

I disagree with your assessment

The cliches, the retcons, and the fact it was 3 hours of mostly exposition as just a part 1 that killed it for me. The Pom Klementieff cliche of bloodthirsty psychopath to good guy in 5 minutes was so ridiculous.

@@treytison1444 "The cliches" - Can you elaborate on that? What cliche are you talking about? "the retcons" - The retcon was forced for sure but it wasn't really terrible. "the fact it was 3 hours of mostly exposition as just a part 1 that killed it for me." - There's only 30 minutes of exposition and most of them are pretty good until it got repetitive on the train. "The Pom Klementieff cliche of bloodthirsty psychopath to good guy in 5 minutes was so ridiculous." - She is more of a bloodthirsty maniac rather than a psychopath. And you just forgot that Ethan literally spared her life.

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@Villenueve1101cliche of Grace being stupid for no reason and not learning from her mistakes 3 times now? Why run away from the one person saving ur life at every turn? Retcon is how they introduced 2 new characters that’s “been apart of his past” that the audience has never seen once. It’s not the worst but should be better. The exposition was fine but annoying cause the audience already knew about the submarine and what it unlocks so we’re just spending 3 hours watching the characters playing catch up. Ethan sparing her life is cool but that’s the ONLY thing the ai couldn’t predict? Also anyone can see that last minute save coming.

Fun fact: after the movie was shot, Tom Cruise still is 6 years younger than harrison ford, he promises that he will mantain that...

What is your native language? Do you know how to write in that one?

The key is literally a crucifix

She might make a comeback considering she is still in the cast list of the next movie

@@Julianjulesr1361and Grace

Her scenes were the only ones that interested me.

@@Metallic-SunPom Klementieff has an absolute screen presence. Loved her performance even if her character was underwritten and had a weird arc, her facial expressions are great and hilarious

She reminds me of Xenia Onatopp - Goldeneye (or Fatima Blush - Never Say Never Again) in the sort of awesome insane somewhat masochistic female henchman, who is just wack and chews the scenery. Pom had a wonderful screen presence, her facial expressions really sell her character cutting back to her in the chase scene, she’s great at action choreography too.

He shot it like 8 times lmao doubt he was shitting himself

@@soullessmoriarty Or he brought some extra pants with for the retries.

Maybe they'll have to eat chapstick or spray hand sanitizer in their eyes to confuse the AI.

It's not, dead reckoning means driving basically by eye without any tech

@@jwebbnature I know what Dead Reckoning means 😌

@@jwebbnature Wrong. It means navigating by only using position, vector and time, which the AI allows them to do easily, which allows them to perpetually run silently.

Agreed!

You know damn well Ethan wasn't gonna die in this

she wasn't British enough. had to be replaced with a new, even more british woman.

Pretty sure she's not dead and a plot twist on the second one makes her the baddie, not like they haven't done this kind of in every movie before.

She was, but it mostly felt like they just didn't know what to do with the character. She fit so well into the Solomon Lane era and the interplay with her and Ethan was great but never felt sustainable. I think it hurts because of the fakeout and, let's be honest, how absolutely incredible and enchanting Hayley Atwell is, but it's hardly the first time someone died in this series. Now if they ever kill Luther....I'll never forgive them.

I thought you were talking about a Limp Buzkit cover of the Wii sports theme or smth

All joking aside, I do think MI:2 has a more complete script and more effective villain. Despite the cheesiness, MI: 2 is a better, more complete film. Dead Reckoning part 1 had some of the worst writting in the series. Was very let down.

Outside of every other theme, ever.

@@mikemccroskery6649 - You may be alone in this and that's okay.

@@RobVespa I'm certainly not alone in thinking that the writing in DR was utter trash. Fast and Furious level cringe, but you go ahead and keep making excuses for the sloppy writing if you enjoy mediocrity on that level.

Hmmm...car go fast...me like... You doorknob

@@SYLRMHA maybe I keep it generic to not reveal too much. The hell is wrong with you..

I found it funny that they went down the same steps as Dom in Fast X

How can you tell the difference between car chases? They are as predictable as sports games. How many apple stands did they run over as a guy jumped out of the way at th elast second?

@@Iwillone Wow! Part 10 of one crap movie and part whatever of this fart burp fart derp derp derp.

How can ANYTHING in these kind of dumb movies have an impact?

@@youtubegarbage7876 ???? How can any stunt have an impact? Is that ur question?

Thing is these stunts that they always promote are usually the least impressive because its hard to grasp any scale, its like the skydiving sequence in Fallout, obscured by CGI and mist and so it starts looking fake. Same with the train crash here was obscured with CGI. Thing is the motorcycle jump is so far away, riding across CGI grass when we know the entire layout of the actual stunt from videos, and then just some distant black blot that is him diving down when it could just be CGI. The stunts that really work are up-close and with his face, like him piloting a helicopter, him actually fighting people, him on a train

The red light green light on the Venice bridge and Kittridge asking Hunt if he’s upset we’re among my favourites.

The Venice sequence felt a lot like the opening Prague sequence from MI:1. But the sleight of hand was a lot of fun. I want a behind the scenes thing that shows that tom learned how to do that for real. It would impress me more than the stunts this time around.

@@gelfie2208 yeah I think it’s more like the Prague scene now that I’m thinking about it! It’s the desperation, the dirty cobbled street, the cinematography. I think it would need a bit more slo-no and pigeons to be John Woo haha

Agree with most of your points except I enjoyed the comedic interplay between Grace & Ethan during the chase scenes. I felt Dungeons & Dragons suffered more from a "Marvelization" aspect.

So part 7 or 9 or whatever of this tired old dog is NOT the best movie... weird..

@@youtubegarbage7876 wow ok. Its not Fast & Furious, and yeah its sequels, then again everything is sequels and remakes now its possible that one franchise might actually stand out for upping themselves with each movie and trying to be creative and take risks like Tom and McQuarry are doing. Ever heard of James Bond?

@@tomlewis4205true, comedy is a big part of these new Mission Impossible movies, i mean its like how comedy plays into Roger Moore Bond movies, its not Marvelization if its something that Ghost Protocol already was doing

Same here. I came in ready to be just intrigued and ready to watch a good movie but this story was dogshit. Final set piece was really good but that’s about it. It seems the movie was padding for time until that train scene

Absolutely agreed. This movie’s action sequences were nice but broken up by such clunky exposition. I like the way u put it becuz other ppl go to the other extreme of the film being trash. I still liked this movie but Fallout’s script was so tight, the action sequences were so well choreographed and also stripped down to essentials. This movie felt like it was just waiting for an action scene to start because it couldn’t handle dialogue, Fallout had a better synergy between it, it felt like the action carried and served the plot, here the plot just services one action scene to another. Also the stakes, the stakes are so important to set up clearly, here its just a vague AI and bureaucrats talking in vague endless complicated sentences. I don’t even want to begin with Ilsa, as others have said it feels like they just killed her off to make way for a new actress, switching them in like cards to play, Ilsa was competent smart and a good foil, Ilsa is just a thief with little skills, feels almost like Tom just making way for his then-gf Hayley to get all the spotlight and needing an excuse to kill Ilsa, felt shameless. Especially when every woman in the movie swooned over him and every person randomly trusting him cuz his innate goodness

Ethan as he always does tries to save everyone so is protecting both-first telling Ilsa to 'get away as far as you can' at the meeting then running to bridge and it's implied he would have made it in tiime. Unfortunately the Entity manipulates him into the ambush and it's implied it manipulated Ilsa into traveling to the bridge ['You can't save [Grace] Ethan...but you can Ilsa].

Atwell was their original choice for Ilsa. They imply that heavily in the 5th movie’s commentary and interviews. I guess TC had wet dreams about her. So as soon as she was let go from Marvel they shoved her in in expense of a far superior and more authentic Furguson’s character. She annoyed me. She was too movie-ish, silly, and cuffed Ethan for certain death in the subway. The way he miraculously didn’t die from a train impact is silly too. This movie is just poorly written. I’m disappointed. They gotta stop with the improv shit.

And my mom also wrote down Shea Wigham’s quote in the theater lol

Initially I don't think they knew the Entity was directly targeting them. Up until the airport scene, I don't think they even know they're up against a rogue AI. They're just trying to get a key. They only pieced it together that the Entity is actively trying to stop Ethan after they ID'd Gabriel.

hmmm🤔 I think you might be onto something.

Honestly I think the perfect opening would've been just starting straight off with the government meeting scene. Were thrown into this crisis in progress head first, and the first time we see Ethan is this cool mask reveal. I think the whole bit with him getting the mission and the sequence in the desert isn't necessary and kinda just adds even more padding to the beginning before the movie properly starts on top of the submarine scene

@@frezling2442eah the desert mission is a cool idea on paper (Lawrence of Arabia imagery all-round) but just a bit lame in actuality, idk it felt a bit clunky with the shooting and her eyepatch sniping, felt a bit rushed, also because its some random cgi town in the desert and it feels a bit fake. Idk, like i’d love to see that sort of action in a North African or Middle Eastern medina/old city or something, like more urban action rather than out in the open. Felt a bit like a Battlefield video game map. I was a bit worried at that point about the movie tbf

@@GuineaPigEverydayalso annoying and weird because of how it had no emotion or stakes. We’re just thrown into it 5 minutes in and I just domt care. Felt very bland

Hayley welling up but not actually shedding a tear… good stuff.

and best Metal Gear movie. Gabriel is even dressed like Revolver Ocelot.

Im glad someone else noticed too! I thought the exact same thing. They did a better uncharted movie than the actual movie 😂

The car chase was also just the Citroen 2cv chase from 'For your eyes only' smashed together with the bike chase (handcuffed) from 'Tomorrow never dies'. It's like they had no original idea's in this entire movie.

agreed! also the crash of the locomotive is much cooler in the Behind the Scenes footage!

@goodial yeah man Why did they add so much CGI to train engine crash The BTS video of train crash looks so good It feels like this movie needed a better editor, some scenes just abruptly transition

⁠@@vishalthefirst4140IKR!!! I was so excited for the train crash because its classic Buster Keaton type of awesomeness. They crashed it in water too but for some reason they needed some CGI river-effects and all this random stuff, they did this in the skydive sequence too covering stuff up with CGI. I hate that movies feel the need to do this, ‘polish’ something up and making it look fake. Whats the fucking point anymore, now the audiences cant tell if its real at all, maybe they were frustrated that they couldnt film in poland so they had to cgi a bunch of stuff since the crash scene was filmed on some half-bridge quarry in england and they needed to make it look like a real river??? I mean just let it crash like Back To The Future 3, and let us see it too and not edit it so quick, why is this sooo hard

@GuineaPigEveryday agreed, they should've left the cut as is like in back to the future 3. It was really frustrating that the movie looked like it was filmed using a snapchat filter in many scenes. And the scene with Ethan running on top of the airport had so much dramatic music that I thought it was going to lead to something but it just cuts off.

Still the worst lyrics ever

I personally liked it cos it felt very cartoony as it kept going on 😂

I dont know what uncharted has done to me but all i think was "here we go, is uncharted 2 scene again"....

Why should he he looks great lol

I admire him so much as an actor, but yeah a real lunatic outside of that. Although he seems very nice and great in interviews (that’s how they get you I guess)

He doesn’t romance ladies? This movie felt like every woman was just swooning over him endlessly tbh, even Paris just sacrificed her life almost just becuz Ethan showed mercy

The John Wick movies suck..All 4 of them are literally the plot of atleast a third of Jason Statham's movies, except Jason Statham actually looks smooth and natural doing things. Keanu looks clunky like his legs don't work right and like he's riding an invisible horse.

​@@lutherheggs451terrible ass take

The AI being active and self aware is such a can of worms. In my opinion it should've been inactive and everyone was trying to get the keys to find and access it, the fact it's active adds very little throughout the movie and kind of denigrates the value of Gabriel as a character with any agency

@@frezling2442 Maybe pt 1 they fight for the keys to activate it, pt 2 it's been activated and they need to destroy it. Also could have served up Ethan an L at the end of pt 1 that way to make a more suspenseful cliffhanger.

I must have been changed considerably given they re-cast the villain with an actor nearly twice Hoult's age. He wasn't the only actor to drop out-Angela Basset was meant to return as the CIA head when Kittridge has that position in the final film.

I don't recall the sub being tricked by AI into sinking itself in Hunt for Red October...