Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to listen to Pete and Trevor travel to see Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, the eighth and potentially last instalment in the MI franchise. Christopher McQuarrie is back with Tom Cruise to single-handedly save stunt work and the movies and the world. Listen to the episode for our immediate spoiler-free reactions to the movie before heading into spoiler-talk. This is also the fourth week for our ongoing Project Superman, wherein we watch every single live-action theatrical Superman movie. This week we discuss Superman III, directed by Richard Lester, starring Christoper Reeve (Clark Kent), Margot Kidder (Lois Lane), Richard Pryor (Gus Gorman) and Annette O’Toole (Lana Lang). Don’t forget to enter our ongoing contest to win a subscription to Letterboxd Patron: https://boxd.it/Gbt3O Intro, history with Mission: Impossible and recap of Dead Reckoning (0:00) Review of Superman III (24:00) Spoiler free review of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (42:12) Spoiler-talk (51:40) About the Movie: Ethan Hunt and the IMF team race against time to stop a rogue artificial intelligence known as “The Entity” from falling into the wrong hands and reshaping global power. As loyalties are tested and old enemies return, Ethan faces his most personal and perilous mission yet. Main Cast Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt Hayley Atwell as Grace Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn Esai Morales as Gabriel Pom Klementieff as Paris Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge Angela Bassett as Erika Sloane Crew Director: Christopher McQuarrie Producers: Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, Jake Myers Writers: Christopher McQuarrie, Erik Jendresen Cinematographer: Fraser Taggart Editor: Eddie Hamilton Composer: Lorne Balfe Production Designer: Gary Freeman Costume Designer: Jill Taylor Visual Effects Supervisor: Alex Wuttke Stunt Coordinator: Wade Eastwood Casting Director: Lucy Bevan