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The Entity has taken over the internet and used fake news and astroturfing to leave the world on the brink of nuclear war. Kittridge and the U.S. government still want to control it, but with doomsday on the horizon, President Angela Basset decides to recruit Ethan to destroy the Entity.

Ethan and his team (Benji, Grace, Pom Klementieff and the black guy from Top Gun: Maverick) track down Gabriel, but he has been cast out by the Entity for failing to acquire the key to the sunken submarine where the Entity’s source code is hidden.

Gabriel is now working on his own to take over the Entity and rule the world, and reveals that the Rabbit’s Foot from Mission: Impossible 3 was a prototype for the Entity and Ethan is partially responsible for its existence.

Ethan finds the high-tech coffin Gabriel used to use to communicate with the Entity and goes into the cyberspace. The Entity tries to recruit Ethan as its new messiah, but he refuses and finds out the Entity plans to detonate all of the world’s nukes, but needs to stash itself in a bunker in South Africa to survive.

Meanwhile, Luther is sick, but manages to develop a virus that will wipe the Entity off the internet. Gabriel steals it, and Luther sacrifices himself to defuse a bomb Gabriel had planted and is the only casualty.

The team goes to Siberia, where they team up with the nerdy analyst from Mission: Impossible and his Eskimo wife to retrieve the submarine’s coordinates before the Russians, while Ethan hangs out with Navy staff including the milf from Ted Lasso and Mr. Milchick from Severance and has an underwear knife fight against an Entity acolyte.

Ethan dives into the submarine, retrieves the Entity’s source code, and is rescued by his team. They travel to the bunker in South Africa, where Gabriel tries to force Ethan to exchange the source code for the virus, leading to an extended biplane chase that ends with Gabriel dying after bonking his head on the plane’s rudder.

Ethan retrieves the virus, joins it with the source code, tricks the Entity into uploading itself to the bunker and traps it in a physical drive. Kittridge and Shea Whigham arrive, and it turns out Whigham is the son of Jim Phelps from the original movie. They believe Ethan when he claims the drive was destroyed.

The team meets up in London, share tearful silent goodbyes before Ethan disappears into the night with the drive, having accepted his fate is to live in the shadows with no emotional attachments until the next mission comes.

The movie completely ignores the plot Dead Reckoning set up about Ethan and Gabriel sharing a past, Ethan being a criminal in Mexico before joining the IMF, and Gabriel killing Ethan’s girlfriend Marie (pic related). Not only is none of that mentioned, it’s blatantly retconned with Ethan’s records presenting him as a soldier who was recruited by Kittridge after being honorably discharged from the military.

genuinely, does anyone actually remember the plots to these movies? I've watched every single one of them multiple times and enjoyed them but I still can't remember shit.

What a wet fart of a movie. An anon made up a "leaked" plot a while ago and it was great. Very epic and made sense. It also had Ethan sacrificing himself in a poignant manner. Instead, in the real movie, he saves the world with medium difficulty and then the movie ends. I knew Tom wouldn't have the balls to end the franchise. MI9 incoming.

taken over the internet and used fake news and astroturfing to leave the world on the brink of nuclear war

how did anyone notice? that's the status quo

So they explain NOTHING about that Mexican lady that Ethan cried over? Despite giving the actress a character poster? What the fuck is going on here?

The movie completely ignores the plot Dead Reckoning set up about Ethan and Gabriel sharing a past, Ethan being a criminal in Mexico before joining the IMF, and Gabriel killing Ethan’s girlfriend Marie (pic related)

oh well I'd forgotten all that anyway, so no harm no foul

An anon made up a "leaked" plot a while ago and it was great. Very epic and made sense.

You're not fooling anyone.

Here's my memory of each

MI1

Jon Voight works for the IMF but betrays them for some reason. Tom Cruise puts his face on at some point. A helicopter goes into a tunnel.

MI2

Philip Seymour Hoffman is in South America. At some point Tom Cruise has a bike race with a guy and launches his bike at him and he shoots him on the bike and it was cool.

MI3, MI4, MI5

I have no idea

MI6

Henry Cavill has a moustache. Reloads arms while fighting a chinaman. Tom Cruise and Henry Cavill jump off a plane. Helicopter through the himilayas.

Looks like Chris Pratt from the catalog.

Philip Seymour Hoffman is in South America.

That was the third one lel.

Cruise is always kino.

Maybe the only time I'm bothering to read a plot leak of these movies. All of the plots are shit. Even this one, I'm just skipping to the end to see if Tom bites it.

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Mission.Impossible.The.Final.Reckoning.2025.HC.KR.TS.EN.RGB.mkv would agree

a bomb Gabriel had planted

he works on his own yet somehow obtains two nukes not under control of the AI when that's the entire plot
also he actually says "this is the final reckoning" on screen

There is a HDTS of it out.
Anyone checked it out, how shit is it?
I normally wait for a decent rip but I do want to watch this so if the TS is any good I can watch it.

It's a very generic MI movie that builds up to a grand finale which never comes. It's as generic and fluff as it gets.

I meant the quality of the TS anon.
I know what to expect with MI, its generic popcorn flicks

I wouldn't bother. The usual crap. AI filters up the ass. If you value your sight, don't bother.

Still a decent action film, that's still better than the slop this place slurps up like superhero crap and Star Wars.
Same goes for Bond or Fast and Furious.

Didn't Ethan have a fucking wife?! Who's the beaner bitch?

Yeah I just normally wait. Just that I will be having to stop watching shit in a month or so, so if it doesnt drop by then I may have to watch the TS.

MI4

Sawyer dies at the beginning, Jeremy Renner is in it, Cruise climbs a tower in the middle east or something

MI5

Cruise climbs on a plane as it's taking off and they trap the bad guy in a glass cabinet at the end, also, Ethan might have jumped into a water hole in the middle of the movie

The Final Reckoning reminds me quite a bit of RE: The Final Chapter.

Disjointed continuity with its predecessor.

One of the characters is friendly at the end of the last movie. Suddenly an antagonist again here.

The plot is framed by a completely arbitrary countdown timer where everyone on Earth is going to die when the clock hits zero because reasons.

Protagonist is obviously meant to die in the third act, but they wuss out at the last minute and have them miraculously survive.

The personality and motivations of the all-seeing, all-knowing AI character seem to have completely changed since the last movie.

Also the name.

The only one where people remember what happens is 2 and it's the only one where Ethan is at the peak of his powers and takes a mission and follows orders and doesn't go rogue/is disavowed. It was like if America finally found its James Bond and they blew it. What a shame.

fake news and astroturffing will cause nuclear war

that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

No, an AI taking control of the world will

All I remember about 2 is Cruise climbing up a mountain and him doing a lot of backflips

Creators should never put their own feelings on the story at its detriment. Tom obviously didn't want to kill the Ethan Hunt character off when he's just a personfication of Tom himself and the movie suffered for it.
Watch it again sometime. It's 2000's: the movie and it's glorious.

2 is the most retarded which ironically makes it the most memorable, funny how that works. I'd also like to believe I'm not the only one that finds Ghost Protocol overrated, the villain blows ass and the whole thing feels like a cartoon, appropiate considering Brad Bird directed several animated movies before it.

not remembering the Anthony Hopkins title drop

It was like if America finally found its James Bond and they blew it.

Why are people pretending MI didn't make a shit ton of money afterwards?

The only one where people remember what happens is 2

MI2 is the only one everyone says is bad
It's okay, the hate overblown, but it almost killed the franchise

They AI wanted everyone paranoid so they wouldn't take their nukes offline as a safety precaution and the actual nuclear war was just caused by the AI launching everyone's nukes

Ethan should have walked off into retirement with Ilsa. McQ dropped the ball hard with her by reducing her role to the point where Rebecca wanted out of the franchise and then shoving her into the fridge as a result.

The problem I have is that nothing about Dead Reckoning even hinted at the idea the Entity wanted to kill everyone and fuck off to the apocalypse bunker. There is a huge amount of whiplash around what the Entity wants, and Gabriel is such a deeply undercooked character.

2 is the only movie where the title MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE reflects the movie. 3 was a 24/Bourne ripoff and 4/5/6/7/8 are just the same movie in repeat.
Not true. It was a huge hit in theaters and made more than The Matrix. Maybe don't regurgitate shit you hear on Youtube videos?
It did but 2 was the last time it made a splash in the public consciousness. Its music tie-in album was the stuff of legend back in the day.
Agreed. 5 was when it should've happened. Rogue Nation was the perfect balancing point in terms of tone. What a waste.

made a splash in the public consciousness

And?
That doesn't mean anything, the MCU made a far bigger splash and it's all garbage

Part of the issue with these new MI movies is that the plot is obviously an afterthought. What the movie is actually about is something they come up with during post-production and reshoots. But even with that consideration, it really felt like the movie was building towards Ethan's death. Then it doesn't do that. I also felt the Luther stuff was completely disjointed because when the hell did he get sick? That was never hinted at in Dead Reckoning, right? Why is he suddenly bedridden? Also, why does the team's secret underground facility have an on-site nurse? To a degree, it sorta felt like they were mashing together multiple movies. Geographically the London stuff felt weird as fuck.

I think it should have been 6. McQ pussied out by removing their 2 different kisses from the movie and then changing the ending from them walking off together into what we got in the final film.

His first love before he even joined the IMF.

They're just an excuse for Tom to perform daring stunts because he's an adrenaline junkie BUT that time might be over now and he's going back to making "real" movies cause he has a Inarritu movie on the way. He wants that Best Actor Oscar.

Remember the portable nuclear bomb in Dead Reckoning that had to be unlocked by answering riddles and personal questions? Like, what happened with all that? It originally seemed like the entity was interested in Ethan. That it knew something about Ethan that was important. That is all gone here.

The entity is such a... non-entity in this movie. It may as well not be a character anymore. It's not even cool and interesting like Terminator 3's skynet (an obvious inspiration). I'm just baffled at what happened to the plot. It's enjoyable as an action film, but it's incoherent as a thriller.

nothing about Dead Reckoning even hinted at the idea the Entity wanted to kill everyone

They state in the opening scene it compromised the defense network of all nuclear superpowers.

it won't let me post the catbox link, but for context, it has a glimpse at that deleted ending

the link ends with g33z59.mp4

Remember the portable nuclear bomb in Dead Reckoning that had to be unlocked by answering riddles and personal questions?

It was a fake.

It originally seemed like the entity was interested in Ethan. That it knew something about Ethan that was important.

It was testing Ethan throughout to try to turn him into its harbinger.

I'm "regurgitating" what happened
The series almost died and Tom Cruise was able to fully assume control by taking a heavier producing role as the studio was longer confident in the series
Maybe remember the movie came out in like 2000 when nobody gave a shit about the international dollars

Saw it
Very disjointed and bleh
Female Black President Hero
Female Hero SS officer that could beat up 200 pound men
Female Villain turned Hero female beats up more 200+ pound men
Female butch Navy Diver that belittles Ethan and “puts him in his place”
2 female Marine chopper pilots heroically getting Ethan onboard of sub
4 foot 11 350 pound Inuit female that takes down 6 foot 5 jacked Russians armed with guns with a shovel and saves everyone …
I’m sure I missed a bunch
3/10

They state in the opening scene it compromised the defense network of all nuclear superpowers.

Which in no way corresponds to it wanting to kill everyone. That is a bizarre leap and it feels like Final Reckoning doesn't even bother trying to justify it.

dead reckoning part 1 was such a clusterfuck on every level
I remember watching it (not in theaters) and being so puzzled by the scene where ethan in a mask walks into that meeting with carey elwes and kittridge and whoever else and nobody reacts to him being there at all and he's just fucking around with a brief case in full view of the 10 people in the room and they all just keep talking until he gas bombs the place

It was testing Ethan throughout to try to turn him into its harbinger.

Which, BTW, represents one of the huge plot issues with these new movies -- Gabriel, whose motivations are completely, utterly incoherent.

Gabriel was originally meant to be a much younger guy, COMPLETELY unconnected to Ethan's past, played by Nicholas Hoult. Hoult had to drop out because of COVID-influenced scheduling conflicts, and then they rewrote the entire part into the anime villain clusterfuck and waste of Esai Morales that it ended up being.

What exactly did you think it wanted?

Don't forget this place unironically worships Andor lmao

He's not a deep villain, but his motivation are pretty clear: He's a power-hungry asshole who likes to make people suffer. The Entity chose him because of his complete lack of morals, and discarded him when he failed, so he decided to take control of the Entity and rule the world all by himself.

In the first movie, the entity is essentially reshaping human civilization through information control. When it controls the concept of truth, it becomes essentially untouchable in an always-online reality. Having control over nuclear superpowers helps ensure that it can retaliate if someone tries to go scorched earth on it.

Final Reckoning goes in a weird direction where the entity suddenly has a doomsday cult that wants to destroy the world so the survivors can rise stronger from the ashes. It is actually weirdly similar to the Umbrella conspiracy from the RE movies, where Umbrella try to kill everyone so they can emerge stronger from their secret underground bunker. I just feel this is such a heap leap of logic between Dead Reckoning and Final Reckoning. The movie failed to sell the logic of the pivot. Why does the entity need or want to kill all the humans? It's such a retarded plan to hide out in a nuclear bunker in South Africa.

I also think the logic around the entity's physical state is nonsense. They go for a T3 Skynet-style "the entity is everywhere", but then the entity has can somehow be captured because it copies itself into an archive while deleting every copy of itself elsewhere? What? How does that make any sense?

It's been a while since I've seen an action film like this that has such egregious plot logic issues. It's papered over by the sheer quality of the stunts and action, but the plot is nonsense. Even MI2 had a plot that, on a basic level, made sense.

You're yelling at the void. The script, before Part One flopped, probably answered all your questions and made more sense but they wanted to streamline things for the public to get them back in theaters, hence why they dropped the Part Two subtitle. Ultimately, we'll never know what Part One set up and where that led. Shame. Dumb masses win again.

Esai Morales is good as a side villain, not main. They should've gotten a big A-lister to balance out Cruise. Morales is good but he has no chemistry with Cruise.

They just changed the title, my dude. The script remains the same.

They should've brought back Cavill with like a half-metal face or something.
He wasn't busy.

No, they rewrote and reshot most of it. Case in point: everything about the Mexican lady and Gabriel. Given how Part One flopped and you couldn't expect people to care about setup they never went to the theater for, they cut that out and focused on a standard MI plot.

they recycle one of these four plots for every single movie

Ethan has been framed

Scary weapon end world

Rogue former agents

bad guy makes it personal and targets ethan's girlfriend

This is why 2 is the best one.

Ethan at the peak and prime of his life

long lush hair

confident chad American James Bond

follows order and fulfills a mission without going rogue or being disavowed

acts moreso like a human being

It's the best one because it has personality.

No, they rewrote and reshot most of it.

There's been zero mention of that.

Case in point: everything about the Mexican lady and Gabriel.

Probably just a deleted scene since Cruise nixed the idea of de-aged flashback sequences.

bad guy makes it personal and targets ethan's girlfriend

That's only happened in MI3 and MI6, and in 6 it was just a threat, they didn't even go after her

follows order and fulfills a mission without going rogue or being disavowed

That's not the American way

didnt his girlfriend get killed half way through dead reckoning?

That's not his gf.

The problem I have is that Gabriel killed Marie and they made a huge deal out of it in Dead Reckoning. There was obviously something very significant to his actions. But it's never really paid off.

Ethan and Ilsa were never "officially" together, but it's all but said that they loved each other. There's 5 different deleted kisses for them across 5 and 6 combined.

She might as well be.