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In today's episode, we're breaking down the first seven movies in the absolutely wild Mission Impossible series and the lead up to the eighth film, the Final Reckoning. Now, excuse me, Jason, would.
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Okay, here we go the speed recaps. Now before we start the clock, let me just say this. This is so Listen. Maybe you've seen a couple of the Mission Impossible movies.
Maybe you've only seen.
Yeah, maybe a only saying the most recent one. Maybe you only seen the fast one.
Who knows, yeah, only Dead Reckoning, or you've only seen Rogue Me, or you've only seen Ronation and Dead Reckoning. This is to get you up to speed on the entire franchise. If you don't want to watch all the movies yourself, or if you've seen all the movies and you just want to kind of get a refresher.
Here we go.
Okay, fifteen minutes on the clock. Okay, I am ready. When you are, let me know when to start stop the time. A Mission Impossible the first one, nineteen ninety six, directed by Brian opalma Ethan Hunt an agent of the elite imf Impostuble Mission Forces undercover at the US embassy in Prague as Dixie Kratz, Senator John Waltzer and a
John Walter mask. The team's mission is to apprehend rogue agent Alexander Golitzen when he steals the CIA's very secret knock List, which is the list of all the identities of their agents in Europe. The mission goes sideways in Ethan's entire team is wiped out, including Ethan's mentor Jim and Golitzen. Ethan calls the secret IMF hotline, sets up a meeting with IMF Director Kittridge and Kirtchridger's like good news, I'm in progue.
What are you doing to progue? Same suspicion.
Turns out Kittridge is overseeing a mall hunt. It turns out that Golitzen was an IMF agent part of a separate team tasked with uncovering the betrayer inside the IMF, who had made the deal to steal the knocklist in order to sell it to a arms dealer named Max. Kitchens is pretty sure they got their guy. Now the loan survivor Ethan Hunt, but Ethan Hunt escapes. He blows up some fish tanks with explosive chewing gum and at the safehouse, he goes on the Internet and does some sleuthing.
This is nineteen ninety six, so he has to use Netscape to serve the usenet. I don't have time, so google what usenet was. He makes contact with Max through usnet and then in the middle of this, guess who wanders in IMF team member Claire, who has survived This is Jim's wife and Ethan is probably or definitely been fucking her. Correct How did she survive? She says that Jim warned her that something was wrong and then allowed
her to escape before everyone was killed. Ethan meets with Max, and one thing about Max is she immediately also wants to fall in as well, truth like a lot, and the other thing is she agrees to buy the knocklist from Ethan for ten million dollars plus the identity of the IMF turncoat. Ethan and Claire assemble a team which
includes crack hacker Luther and French pilot Kreeker. They sneak into CIA headquarters, where they give a guy diarrhea and managed to steal the knocklist and an iconic set piece influenced by the heist films RAFIV and top Copy. They steal the knocklist. Jim comes back from the dead. I was thinking, he says, and also kittridges the mall. However, Ethan, in a somewhat confusing montage, reveals that he already figured out the gym is the mall even plays along, though
he invites Jim to the handoff with Max. Aboard a train, Ethan gives Max a list and she tells him the ten million is back in the baggage compartment. Ethan uses a gym mask love that Mos to Outclaire as part of Jim's plan, and then he uses his camera glasses to out Jim as the mole to Kittridge. Jim tries to flee in a helicopter piloted by Kreaker, but Ethan blows it up with more chewing up.
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Evil Corporation Biosite has created a deadly biological weapon named Chimera, which they plan to release in order so that they can charge people for the cure, which they call bilaferon which they also created Evil IMF agent Sean Ambrose steals the cure and disappears. Ethan is mountain climbing when he gets the call to find Ambrose and the message to do this is stored on a pair of Oakeally sunglasses.
Even brings Luther back in for his hacking expertise, and Ethan decides to use Naya Ambrose's ex to find Ambrose and guess what, Ethan falls in love with her. Shocking, he falls in love with every beautiful woman he comes into contact with. Ambrose has the cure, but he needs the virus for his biosite.
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Ethan tries to steal the virus, but it goes wrong and Naya ends up injecting herself with the sample of the virus and walking around uh Ethan tracks Ambrose down using a maskruise, tricking Ambrose.
Into shooting one of his own guys.
There's a motorcycle chase, after which Ethan kills Ambrose and he has Luther, cured Naya and Save the World. Mission I Possible three, two thousand and six, directed by jj Aberbs. Ethan Hunt is retired and living with his girlfriend Julia Okay. Julia thinks that Ethan is a traffic analyst for the Department of Transportation. Ethan comes out of retirement to rescue one of his old teammates who's been captured by the
evil arms dealer Owen Davian. Philip Moffman, that's right, Eda gets her up, but Davian put an explosive in her head and it goes off, and the extraction helicopter insane, insane, and it's kind of suggested that Ethan was also in love with her. Ethan and his team, including new tech guy Benji, down Davian to the Vatican, where he plans
to buy something called the Rabbit's Foot. They managed to capture Davian, drug him, and sneak him onto a plane bound for the US, but when Ethan tries to interrogate Hi, Davian's like, listen, I'm gonna kill everybody that you.
Love back of the US.
Davian escapes when Commander count Bush the prison convoy, and within like ten minutes, Davian figures out who Ethan's girlfriend is and where she works and promptly kidnaps her. Davian gives Ethan forty eight hours to bring him the Rabbit's Foot or Julia, his girlfriend dies once again. The IMF arrest Ethan, thinking.
He's the mole.
Oh my goodness, who.
Helped Davian escape.
IMF Director of Ops Musgrave, who is actually the mole, tells Ethan that the rabbit's foots in Shanghai and helps him escape. Ethan goes to Shanghai, gets the foot, delivers it to Davian. Davian doesn't think it's real, though, and he injects one of those little bombs into Ethan's head and says, I'm gonna shoot Julia, and he shoots her, but it turns out that that was just like a
Julia mask and not actually Julia. Musgrave comes in and does a bad guy monologue in which he reveals, hey, I'm la mal, and Ethan knocks him out and escapes.
Ethan finds Davin and Julia.
Davian tries to blow up the bomb in Ethan's head, but Ethan kills him. He tells Julia then basically how to use a gun and says, listen, I'm gonna walk you through the process of frying the little bomb in my head with a defibrillator. When he's knocked out from the defibrillation, Julia shoots Musgrave. When Ethan comes to he tells her listen, by the way, I'm a spy. Let's get married. Mission impossible, goes protocol to That Love It, directed by Bradford. Ethan is undercover in a Moscow prison.
Benji breaks him out because the IMF need him to help recover some stolen Russian launch codes. Ethan and Benji break into the Kremlin in order to find out the identity of Cobalt, the person who's gonna buy the codes. Instead, Cobalt blows up the Kremlin and pins the terrorist attack on Ethan. He's arrested, but he escapes. He meets with
the Secretary and IMF analyst Brandt Jeremy Renner. Ethan draws a picture of Cobalt on his hand in like five seconds, no question, He's a cantones and Brandt is like, oh, totally, I recognize that guy. That is Terror's genius Kurt Hendricks, who wants to start World War three for weird philosophical reasons. The Russians then attack the Secretary's convoy and the Secretary dies,
but Ethan a brand escape. They track Hendrick's right hand man, Wistrom, to the burj Khalifa, tallest building in the world, where he plans to buy the codes from aroaw the assassin who originally stole them from Sawyer from lost It all goes left Wistram, who is actually Hendricks in a bath so many and we find out that Ethan's wife Julia is dead, assassinated by his enemies, and Brandt was the
IMF agent who failed to stop the killing. Okay, The team goes to Mumbai to access an Indian telecom satellite that Hendricks plans to use to launch the nuclear weapons. The IMF team stops to launch, and Hendrix mortally injures himself by leaping off a very tall parking garage. The Russians realize that IMF is innocent of the Kremlin attack.
Everyone's cleared, and later Ethan tells Brant, don't feel bad because I actually faked Julia's death so that she could go off and lead a normal life while I was undercover in that Russian prison. Barry Twisty mission a possible rogue nation twenty fifteen because of various fiascos, including the recent destruction of the Kremlin, IMF is on thin ice with various governments shocking Meanwhile, a new evil spy organization
called the Syndicate ambushes Ethan and takes him prisoner. They sink a guy named the Bone Doctor on him to torture him, but Lisa Fasten, undercover m I sixth operative, helps him escape without blowing her cover. Hunt calls Brant for help. Brent tells Ethan that Congress has shut down the IMF and all of its missions and assets have been handed over to the CIA. CI director Alan Humley believes Ethan and the Syndicate all by himself. Ethan goes on the run months past the CIA, always a step
behind Hunt five, which Brandt finds hilarious. Ethan sets a secret meeting with Benji at the opera in Vienna and asks him for help iding the guy who ambushed him. At the opera, Ethan runs into Ilsea, Faust again and the Syndicate again. The Syndicate manages to kill the Chancellor of Austria, and Ilsa manages to keep her cover intact once again, and Ethan is definitely falling in love with her.
Hunley believes that Ethan and Benji asassity the Chancellor. Ethan and Benji ketchup to Faust She tells him that the guy either is looking for is x MI six agent con evil Solomon Lane. The three break into a vault where Laane hid the syndicate version of the knocklist, but even almost drowns and Elsa steals the Listen escapes car chase motorcycle chase. She gives it to her boss, but he deletes it and tells her to go back undercover with the syndicate, but Benji copied the data. Good work, Benji,
well done. Luther figures out that the data package can only be unlocked by the UK Prime Minister. Now Ethan and the team have the only copy of the data. Our hero goes to London, where Ils pitches Ethan on running away together and being in love and leaving this crazy spy world behind it. He almost does it, but it's a trap. Syndicate take Benji hostage and forces Ethan to unlock the datave minutes and delivered to them or else.
Now the team has to go kidnapp. The Prime Minister Brandt, worried about the fallout, tells Hunley, who arrives in London Oxide Atlee, the ilse's boss. They brief the Prime Minister on hunt Ilse and the syndicate the syndicate, and you.
Say that, Prime Minister says.
The Prime Minister reveals that syndicate was the creation of mi I six Chief attlee ILSA's boss. But Atlee is hunting a mask. He sleep starts the Prime Minister and sends his biometrics to Luther, who unlocks the data. They then sleep Atlee, who immediately admits that he started the syndicate and is trying to frame Ilsa for starting it. Ethan, Luther, and Brandt discover the file is billions of pounds in illicit moneys to run the syndicate because it's very expensive.
Ethan destroy the disc, but in like five seconds memorizes all the account numbers. Now Ethan is the disc and he goes to meet Lane. A chase ensuesan at the end, Lane is tricked into jumping into a lacked glass box. He's taken into custody. Congress undissolves the IF and puts Honey in charge, and he's the new sectorary Mission.
A possible fallout.
Twenty eighteen minutes after their bad beat at the hands of Ethan and friends, the syndicate rebrands is the Apostles, someone named John Lark contracts them to steal three nuclear bomb course. After failing to stop the Apostles from getting the course, Ethan and a team using an elaborate mask, crews involving Wolf Blitzer to chuck Nils dell Brook, an
Apostle nuclear physicist, into revealing Lark's bomb designs. The new CIA director Sloan, forces Hunley and Ethan to take one of our regents, Walker, on the mission to find the course. They go to Paris, get their asses kicked by a guy who they think is Lark, and then Ilseaphous comes in and accidentally kills Lark.
Ethan, now pretending to.
Be Lark, does dude does the core deal with arms dealer Alana Mitzopolis, who of course wants to fuck Ethan and and maybe also wants to fuck her brother. She gives him one core of three, but says for the other two, you have to help us break Lane out of prison, which Ethan does, but he does it in a way that allows Lane to get captured and doesn't kill any cops.
Meanwhile, Walker is telling the CIA.
The Hunter is actually a Rare Minutes and not pretending to be Lark. In London using masks. The team plus Hunley gets Walker to admit that he is Lark. There's a gunfight, Hunley is killed, Walker.
And Lane escape.
Walker tells Ethan that he figured out that Ethan faked the death of Julia, which was revealed in Gross Protocol, and exchange for Lane killing Julia and getting his life back his lick back on Ethan, Lane doesn't give Walker the course. Julia is an Indian controlled cashmir working on a small pox outbreak created by the Apostles. Lane's actual plan is to use bombs to poison the water supply. They're killing billions. Ethan and team go there. He reunites
with Julia, who is remarried. They disarm the bombs and everything's fine. Mission Impossible Dead Record Part one Christopher Carry and Ai Dave the Entity Creative Why the Russians become sentient. World governments are freaked out, but they also want the entity. The only way to control the churn off the entity is the special key. Ethan hunt Now a training offer is called back to active duty and we get some crazy backster and Ethan where some woman that he.
Loves was killed by this guy named Gabriel.
He goes to Saudia room to get the key, which is in the possession of Ilsa. She's hiding there because the US put a bounty on her head. There's a gunfight, Nielson dies in DC. Ethan mask sneaks into a CIA briefing where he learns about the entity. Basically, it's really powerful and it was created.
By the US.
We learned that Ethan has half of the key and that he fake deals his death and he wants to kill the AI. Ethan and the IMF team go to Abu Dabi to get another piece of the key. He encounters a super pickpocket named Grace, who steals the piece of the key from Ethan and also his heart.
HEIMF team chase.
Grace around Europe for a while, and Ethan discovers that Gabriel, his apparent arch enemy, is tied to the is now working for the entity and is somehow involved in Ethan's past. In Venice, our old Palmet'sopolis reveals that she has the other piece of the key. She hired Grace to steal it from ethan arch enemy. Gabriel pops up and says, I love torturing you, Ethan. I love talking shit about you.
Grace.
By the way, this guy is an international fuck boy. He doesn't actually care about you. And now Ethan, you have to choose either I kill Grace or I kill wall Know.
Who are you gonna save?
Well, there's a big fight during which Ethan is tricked by the entity and Gabriel actually does kill Ilsa, and Ethan is very sad. Ethan in the team pitched Grace on joining them and becoming a ghost. She's on the fence.
Luther makes Ethan promise not to kill Gabe because that's exactly what the entity wants, but eventually Ethan manages to get the key and save Grace and escape a falling train and move on to Mission Impossible, the final Reckoning Ken, Ethan and his team destroy the entity and kill Gabriel.
Wow, with twenty one seconds to spare, absolutely incredible ball. Jason Concepciot, WHOA, you did it? What was your favorite movie to rewatch as you were recapping news?
I think that, uh, Rogue Nation or Fallout? I mean, I think I think the best one is still the first one, and I love them, I agree, But in terms of what the series has become for me, it's Fallout.
And Rogue Nation. Those two are my favorites. What are your two favorites.
Rogue Nation is definitely up there. For me. It really made me reconsider the way the franchise kind of works.
But you know what, I'll go out there.
I'll keep my I'll keep my hilarious trend going. I also really enjoy Mission Impossible too. It's not a great movie, but it's like a really outrageous example of what a John movie is if you give him like an unlimited budget.
But yes, I mean yes, in terms of plot, this is a series with just plot like movements that are absolutely bananas.
But that one is the crazy.
Yeah, I think I rewatch in it, a condensed rewatch like this. My absolute favorite piece is that every beautiful woman falls in love with Ethan, and Ethan falls in love with them. I didn't mention that in Dead Reckoning the SCENTI the entities like hired assassin Paris played by Palmif from the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise.
Oh yes, amazing, glad she's back.
At one point during the chase, when Edan is trying to save Ilsa or Grace, he fights Paris and she's like choking him. With her thigh meat like an alley and in that moment they kind of fall for each other.
Yea, and he can't help it. He loved the woman.
Who's trying to kill him. That's just dream.
And then later on the Orient Express when Gabriel is like, listen, Paris, your job is to like go and trick Ethan and kill him and like get the get the key and stuff, She's like, she hesitates because she has feelings for him now and Gabriel has to stabbered it down.
Yeah, and the best but the best thing is at the end they were like they were like, guess what can you hear her heartbeat?
She's still alive? And they were like alive because he needs interests.
What could be more appealing to him than a woman who died in his arms but comes back to life.
That's like a dream situation.
Okay, So who is your favorite teammate for Ethan? Who do you think that's the best chemistry? Who do you think is kind of your your stand up?
You know what? I think it's I think it's Benji.
At this point, Benji is a core guy and they have such a great working relationship where.
They have great chemistry him and Simon Peck.
They've got into this thing in these last I would say two movies where Benji will propose some crazy stunt and you know, I think they've managed, like Tom Cruise is aging pretty well. So now Tom so now Ethan hunts like how many you know? Like when he gets to the Oriente Express and he has to leap a motorcycle onto the train to get onto it.
He's like, wait, what do you want me to do? And Benji's like, well, you're eat some hunk, like you could do this like this and he's like I'm like sixty yeah. So I love that they've added that to it. Were now Benji is the guy who's like, yeah, you can do it, like we've seen you do it, okay.
I I do love I love being Raims as Lutha. I think that the Hacker is a classic stand out character and I love that. But I will say I am generally a fan of like all the women, like you did a great job kind of summing up how many crazy incredible women ill sufaust, you know, my wan. I do think that Grace is is great love, his great love or all of them are great loves.
I think Grace is really good.
I think Grace is a lot of fun with the kind of pickpocketing and the more kind of like on a grind hustle. I think one of the best things is like how everyone is moral complicated because there was spies, so you there's kind of never any judgment, like somebody could commit a mass matter and you're just like, okay, but now they're helping Ethan. Then the IMF do what nobody knows why that aims I don't understand.
The thing I love about the Grace relationship is it is a callback to Mission Impossible one. When uh they steal the Knocklist, it's on like a CD ruck, yeah, and Kreeger thinks that he's got control of the CD round. He's like, I've got the disc and now you're gonna listen to me. You're gonna pay me a bunch of money.
They're in the safehouse and Ethan is like, oh, you mean this, and he like holds up another CD run that he like does some sleight of hand with hed So he loves a sleight of hand person, a pickpocket like Grace, and I love that that is kind of the thing that he is drawn to.
Whe her. He's like, oh, that's a good pickpocketing move.
Okay, is that with you know, final like the new one is called the Final Reckoning? We haven't seen it yet. Uh, would you want to continue with like a new IMF team post this? Would you would you want to continue with characters we've seen or would you want a full new reboot because this is a franchise now we're talking about, like, you know, thirty years of this franchise, so like you want something new or do you want to keep it going? Like how do you reimagine Mission impossible?
Often, well, they clearly tried with Renner.
Coming in uh huh, it seemed like to take the reins and then he just kind of graduated into one of the you know, team regular cast brand.
I would prefer.
A soft reboot where you relaunch with you do like the thing that they tried to do with Renner, where you bring in whoever the hot news.
Oh, Glen Powell, that's a good cool Aaron.
Glen Powell is great and you kind of and they're doing it already right with with Ethan not wanting to do like certain like certain crazy stunts and stuff, and in the fight with the guy they think is John Lark kind of getting his ass kick. Yeah, so I think that they're I think that they can kind of graduate Ethan to more of a director role.
Yes, because he's because the statesman.
Yeah, because they've established that he has like these crazy intellectual superpowers, like he can draw a guy.
He's that like some kind of identic like I want to fix up on like memory like thing, which I.
Like, I'm like, came back going.
He memorizes like five hundred bank account dubbers and know them justively five seconds before drilling the disk.
Like he's got these abilities.
And I think you bring you bring in Glenn Powell or whoever is the hot hot shot, right, Yeah, and you put Ethan in more of a mental role, And I think that's how Yeah.
And we've seen that those two can work great together with Maverick, which you know was such a big hit. Yeah. I also think that what they've done really well is they have built out a cast that's big enough and young enough, with people like Palm to basically make it feel like there is a continuity without having to do like a full requall. You don't have to wait five years,
like you can really continue this franchise. Now the question is will it make money, because it seems crazy, because I thought The Dead Reckoning Pop One was like a really brilliant blockbuster movie and I had a great experience watching it in the middle of the day with definitely a bunch of like early bird oaps and they were like going crazy, like they couldn't believe the things they
were seeing on the screen. But it didn't make a lot of money, or it didn't make as more money as they were hoping, right in the grand scheme of things. So I'm very interested to see where this leaves us, where this leaves Ethan Hunt, where this leaves the IMF, especially because of that hilarious billboard that everyone's been showcasing, which is like the Tom Cruise, you know, Rustball woman billboard where he's kind looking now over us. So yeah, I'm very excited to see this movie. And I just
cannot tell you how fun that recap was, Jason. That was so fucking thank you.
I almost I had to cut out a lot of stuff. I almost did make it.
I was I was like, you know what, I've got a lot of time, And then as the time kicked down, I realized that I did not well. In the next few episodes of X ray Vision, we're diving into Sinners and Final Destination Ne's tomorrow and next week we'll react to Mission Impossible, the Final Reckoning, and the finale of the Last of Us See the two and that's it for this episode. Thanks for listening, Bye. X ray Vision is hosted by Jason Gitsumsion and Rosie Knight and is
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