Mission: Impossible Trilogy Review

Stick a gum, right? No? No. Red light, green

light. You come up against a lock you can't pick,

you mash them together. Asta lasagna, don't get

any on you. You'll have about five seconds. Just

don't chew it. Hello and welcome to the sixth

episode of the MWIRE movie we can review. Today

we are going to be discussing the Mission Impossible

film franchise. I am TFG1Mike and unfortunately

Steve Megatron, my regular co -host and friend,

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This week for me, it's been a good week and a

bad week, I guess, all at once. uh... i've gotten

pretty much they were like nine things off of

ebay actually uh... two of which have to do with

the show tonight's there today or whenever uh...

i got the mission impossible soundtrack for the

first film good yet i got the score for the second

film well like i like the soundtrack to the second

film i like the score better on i'm type person

that i will watch a movie if it has a good score

to it i want to get that on that heck yeah absolutely

CD or, you know, something like that. You know,

it's just the way I am. I like hearing those

instrumental tracks and stuff. So I guess unless

we have anything else further to do, we're going

to get straight into the topic today, which is

Mission Impossible, and we will be right back

after you hear the first movie's trailer. our

embassy in Prague. He is also a traitor. He has

stolen one half of a CIA knock list, a record

of all our deep cover agents working in Eastern

Europe. For security reasons, the knock list

is divided in two. The portion that Galitzen

already has contains code names, but this half

is useless without its mate, which matches the

code names with their true names. It is this

half which Galitzen plans to steal from the embassy

during a reception tomorrow night. Your mission,

Jim, should you choose to accept it, is to obtain

photographic proof of the theft, shadow Galitzen

to his buyer, and apprehend them both. I've already

dispatched a team selected from your usual group.

Sarah Davies is already undercover. Jack Harmon

can hack into any security system. Hannah Williams

will handle surveillance, your wife Claire will

cover transport, and Ethan Hunt will be your

point man as usual. He is now in Kiev and will

rendezvous in Prague at a safe house of your

choosing. As always, should you or any member

of your I .M. force be caught or killed, the

secretary will disavow all knowledge of your

actions. This tape will self -destruct in five

seconds. Good luck, Jim. Alright, we're back,

and yeah, we're going to be talking about all

three Mission Impossible films today. I actually

have all three DVDs. Actually, I have the DVD

two -pack for the first two films, and then I

have the two -disc edition DVD for the third

film. Mission Impossible is a 1996 thriller directed

by Brian De Palma and stars Tom Cruise as Ethan

Hunt. The plot follows Hunt's... mission to uncover

the mole within the CIA who has framed him for

the murders of his entire IMF team. Work on the

script had begun early with late filmmaker Sidney

Pollock on board before De Palma, Stephen Zellian,

and David Kwepp, or however you say his name,

and Robert Town were brought in. In fact the

film went into pre -production without a shooting

script. De Palma came up with Some action sequences,

but neither Kepp or Towne were satisfied with

the story that leads up to these events. YouTube

band members Larry Mullen Jr. and Adam Clayton

produced their own version of the original theme

song, the song that went into top ten charts

around the world, and was nominated for a Grammy

Award for Best Pop Internal Performance. The

movie was the third highest grossing of the year.

It is the first movie based on the television

series of the same name and was followed by two

sequels, Mission Impossible 2 and Mission Impossible

3. Before we really get into the discussion of

this one, I liked the first one. I liked it when

it first came out. I saw it in theaters, but

now... You know, it's almost, it's over 10 years

old now, and of course we've had the second and

the third one since. The first one really isn't

my favorite. Really? I can't remember, I think

this is one of the first TV shows that was captured

in big film, big screen format. I mean, I know

movies have been redone, but I couldn't think

of a TV show that had been made into a movie

before this. I might be stupid, but I don't remember

Petticoat Junction, the movie. I don't remember

anything else. No, I really can't think of anything

else either. I mean, there's... I mean, Star

Trek, I mean, and I get that, but nothing else

really. But that's Star Trek though, it's completely

separate. Right, exactly. I'm with you. I think

it was cool back then. I lost my mind. I thought

this was the coolest movie I've ever seen. This

was before Tom Cruise was crazy and dislikable.

So yeah, I thought it was fantastic then. I'm

with you. I don't think it quite holds up. But

it's 1996, geez. Certain parts of it hold up

for me, but not the whole thing. Like the scene

where they're talking about the mission equipment

and What's his name? Oh Christ. Emilio Estevez.

Yeah, Jack Harmon, where he's talking about the

gum, you know, red light, green light. Hostiles

on you don't get me on you just don't chew it

Yeah, I love that that that was awesome because

that obviously would come back to play in the

movie Yeah, and I think we're just gonna go run

into the plot I'm gonna read it paragraph by

paragraph and in between each paragraph we can

discuss the scenes that that are that are talked

about in the throughout the plot. Ethan Hunt

is an agent of the Impossible Missions Force

IMF team, an unofficial branch of the CIA led

by Jim Phelps, played by John Voight. The team

assembles for a mission in Prague to prevent

an American diplomat from selling the non -official

cover, aka knock list, a comprehensive list of

all covert agents in Eastern Europe. The mission

goes hopelessly wrong, resulting in the deaths

of the diplomat and every team member except

Hunt. Fleeing the scene, Hunt meets with Eugene

Kittredge, played by Henry Zerny, I think that's

how it's said, I don't know. I always butcher

names anyway half the time. The CIA -based director

of the IMF at a cafe, Kittredge discloses that

the knock list in Prague was a fake meant to

draw out a mole who has infiltrated the IMF and

made a deal to sell the list to an arms dealer

known as Max. So submission now falls on Hunt,

the only survivor of the botched mission who

makes a daring escape from the cafe and flees

into the city. uh... no i know a majority of

the plot synopsis is that that that wiki has

uh... because i get all the information from

from wikipedia for these i know that they kinda

you know go over they kind of shorten everything

so that's a lot that's like the first twenty

five thirty minutes of the film right there and

and i love how they did the whole masking in

this yet i was very cool was very cool the masks

and and in deceptions in the gadgets and all

that stuff uh... don't think that uh... i don't

really think that they needed a couple of the

characters like hannah and and sarah i know that

they were foils for you know he said and jack

and stuff like that but I don't know, I just

didn't get too much from those characters. Of

course, they're basically one shots because they

both end up dead. Exactly. Which made me mad.

I didn't want Emilio Esteves to die, man. I was

too quick. He was such a cool character. I actually,

I think the plot of this one was probably the

most tangible and least ridiculous of the three.

I mean, I enjoyed the other two very much, but

I thought this was like, it was more down to

earth, less, you know, kind of out of this world.

It was more tangible. We talked about the knock

list and stuff like that, so it was a very kind

of basic plot. It worked for the movie. John

Voight is a fantastic villain. He's great. Oh,

yes. When I was watching it now, even though

I watched it actually, I watched the first one

a couple of days ago, but when I was watching

it now and this time, I'm 29 years old or whatever,

I remember that he was the villain, but it still

surprised me to see him as the villain. Like,

you don't see it in the beginning, him being

the villain. And I like the way that they hid

that after a while, but you kind of figure it

out as the movie goes along. Right. But still,

good storytelling. I mean, it's really well done.

I thought overall it was a pretty darn strong

film. And I mean, obviously, the special effects

and the action scenes grew exponentially in the

next two sequels. But this was pretty cool. And

like you said, the mask, I mean, that technology

was, I mean, it's pretty progressive at that

stage of the game. So it was pretty awesome to

see. So I enjoyed it. It was a good movie. uh...

returns the i a m i'm a safe house where he discovers

the fellow agent claire phelps played by manuel

jim phelps his wife actually survived the mission

he begins correspondence with max played by the

nasa red grape again who is an awesome awesome

actress and she's done a lot of great stuff yeah

uh... warning her about the fake knock list an

offering to deliver the real one in exchange

for ten million dollars and a face -to -face

meeting with the mole, nicknamed Jobe. Max agrees

to the deal and gives Hunt a cash advance, which

he uses to hire two blacklisted or disavowed

intelligence agents, computer expert Luther Stickel,

played by Ving Rhames and pilot Franz Krieger,

played by Jean Reno. Hunt, Stickel, and Rieger

Rigger and Claire infiltrate the heavily fortified

headquarters of the CIA in Langley, Virginia,

successfully steal a copy of the full knock list

before escaping to a safe house in London. Once

there, Hunt discovers that his uncle and mother

have been falsely arrested for drug trafficking,

an attempt by Kittredge to lure him out of hiding.

This infuriates Hunt, and he contacts Kittredge,

who offers to drop the false charges. The moment

Hunt surrenders to authorities, Hunt stays on

the line long enough for Kittredge to trace him

to the London area and then hangs up and finds

Jim Phelps standing right next to him. These

scenes here, first of all breaking into the CIA,

I know if you go on the internet nowadays you

can find all kinds of, you know, bomb schematics

and everything else you can make your own but

i hope that god nobody actually watch this movie

and attempted to do this i mean i know the difference

between reality and what's not you know and fantasy

and of course you know pretty much all movies

tv's you know tv and all that stuff is is is

fantasy but i mean they were just begging for

somebody to do something like that after watching

this film And I'm sure somebody did in the garage

and they're no longer with us I love the casting

of Ving Rhames was dude. I thought he was a rock

star when I saw him He was just the casting for

that character was so cool. I mean he was What's

the other guy's name John? John Reno Gerard Depardieu.

I thought he was awesome John Reno He I guess

was was that sniper movie or whatever that was

with Natalie Portman was that before this movie?

Oh, man I think I think it was so I kind of recognized

that dude, but they were just they were very

cool And I thought the casting was was fantastic

And so that's kind of his new squad and and that

was that was that was like the a team to me right

there Ethan Hawk was or Ethan Hunt Ethan Hawk

So we're watching reality bites, right? So Ethan

Ethan Hunt was was definitely Hannibal and and

been being Reims was BA And then the French guy

was Murdoch, I guess, or Face, whichever, or

both. I don't think you could, that's a whole

other discussion we would have to have on another

show. I don't think you could, there's no way

that the Russian, that Krieger could be either

Face or Murdoch, but anyway. Maybe Tom Cruise

was Murdoch, or Face, there we go, that works.

The scene with them breaking into the the mainframe

that was just awesome and again the use of music

and I know I mentioned this to you offer that

I have the Have the soundtrack for the first

film and the score for the second film Yeah,

use of the theme throughout the movie was just

awesome Yeah, it was it was just so so awesome

I think one of the funniest parts of this segment

of the movie was when Claire poisons the the

computer guy William Donlowe as she poisons his

coffee I mean, that's right go in and out like

every 10 seconds because he keeps hurling stuff

up So Okay, we got Phelps presumed dead in the

Prague operation says that Kittredge is the mole

and is trying to tie up loose ends by arresting

Hunt. Hunt reflects on this while mentally piecing

together clues he has discovered along the way,

including that Phelps is the mole. Jobe, Hunt

pretends to accept the story understanding that

Krieger has assisted Phelps but is still doubtful

about Claire's place in the conspiracy. The next

day Max and Hunt arrange to meet aboard the TGV

en route to Paris. with Claire and Stickle aboard

to provide backup. Kittredge is also aboard having

recently arrived in London and received tickets

for the TGV and a video watch from Hunt. Aboard

the train, Hunt delivers the knock list to Max

who directs him to the baggage compartment to

find Jobe and his money. Max then attempts to

transmit the knock list to the server but Stickle

activates a jamming device to prevent the upload.

Claire observing Kittredge's Presence aboard

the train vacates her seat and meets with Phelps

in the luggage car, confirming her part in the

conspiracy. A silent Phelps slowly peels his

face away, showing it as a mask and revealing

himself as Hunt. They are interrupted by the

arrival of the real Phelps, unhinged, armed,

and demanding that Hunt hand over the money paid

to him by Max. does so then puts on a pair of

glasses with a camera built into the bridge.

The image of Phelps's face is transmitted to

the video watch carried by Kittredge giving the

latter undeniable proof of Job's true identity.

You know, this, the whole train scene was just

awesome. I know we haven't gotten to the point

yet where we talk about them being on top of

the train and the whole helicopter in the tunnel

thing, but But it's just awesome. I just can't

say enough good things about how well the special

effects were done in this film. It's just so

super cool. So do you have any thoughts on the

previous? I haven't seen the movie in a while,

and you're sitting there talking about the train

scene. I'm recounting it in my head, and that

was certainly probably my favorite scene in the

whole movie. It's just genius. I mean, you've

got great actors pulling off a really well -scripted

scene. uh... the climax of the drama of of the

class is going on content and saying john voice

is genius so i miss is compelling uh... and and

so not to mention Jumping on top of a train.

I mean, it's cliche, but it's awesome. Come on.

Oh, yeah Oh, yeah, it's like when he puts the

glasses on he goes Jim. You're wrong I'm not

the only one that has seen you alive and then

he takes glasses off and throws it at Exactly.

Just so so awesome genius So Claire tries to

persuade Phelps not to kill hunt but he kills

her instead knocks hunt down and climbs up to

the roof Krieger has been following the train

in the helicopter and is waiting to extract Phelps

hunt recovers and follows Phelps and impeding

his efforts to escape, tethering Krieger's helicopter

to the train as it heads to the channel tunnel.

The fight continues with the helicopter now following

the train inside the tunnel. The two fight atop

a windswept train before Phelps disconnects the

helicopter from the train and attempts to escape.

Hunt follows, leaping onto the helicopter, landing

skids before the demented Krieger is about to

behead Hunt with the helicopter's propellers

and attaching explosive chewing gum to the windshield.

In the ensuing explosion kills Phelps and Krieger

with Ethan narrowly escaping. Now in possession

of the Noclist and Job's true identity, Kittredge

reinstates Stickle as an IMF agent and drops

his investigation against Hunt who resigns from

the IMF. As he flies home, a flight attendant

approaches him and asks through a coded phrase

if he is ready to take on a new mission. As we

said a second ago, the whole train sequence.

Inside the train, My favorite part, again, is

him using the gum. That was just awesome. He's

like, red light, green light, and he smashes

it against the window. And Phelps knows what,

you know, John Boyd's character knows what it

is. And when he sticks it on there... uh... crager

kind of looks around the steering wheel and all

of the uh... like uh... what what's going on

here a little gold do it uh... and he's like

really green light boom and then it was just

so awesome seeing him blasted from the helicopter

seeing ethan blasted from the helicopter to the

train and when the train uh... when the helicopter

finally comes to a stop in the blade is like

an inch and a half away from his neck that scene

was so awesome Yeah, it was. I don't know if

it's CG or what, but the explosion behind is

so iconic. Him leaping forward and the explosion

behind is pretty awesome. It's very dramatic,

overly dramatic, intensely dramatic, seeing that

in 1996, I think I stood up and kicked the person

next to me in that part. It was awesome. Yeah,

it was. And the other thing is... I'm sure there

have been other spy movies. I mean, you know,

obviously James Bond and stuff like that. But

I mean, this was something totally different

from a Bond film. Bond films are meant, you know,

James Bond is meant to be worldly. And for the

most part, he is based in, you know, the other

half of the country like Europe and stuff like

that. Even though he has come to the States several

times in the films. for Ethan and his team members

it's just yeah they go everywhere as well but

it I don't know, it just seems more action -based.

And of course, it's a multitude of cast members.

Yeah. Well, it's James Bond with dirty fingernails.

I mean, it's just kind of a blue collar. And

it's a lot more tangible. I mean, I can't relate

to James Bond. I don't even own a tuxedo. But

Ethan Hunt, man, he's just a more tangible, relatable

premise for me. And it is action -based. work

and I mean it's just it's very cool it's a very

cool premise you know and it definitely worked

three films and counting so. Oh yes very very

much so I guess we can go into the cast really

quick as we said with Tom Cruise, John Voight,

Emmanuel Beart, Henry Cerny, John Reno, Ving

Rhames, Kristen Scott Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave,

Emilio Estevez and I'm not even gonna try to

pronounce the other two. It's just not even gonna

go there. And that other dude and that one guy.

There we go. Yeah, exactly. The casting of, you

know, obviously Tom Cruise is, you know, he's

produced all three films. His partner, Paula

Wagner, with their film production company. But

the teaming of him with Luther, with with Reims'

character, that is just awesome. that is the

new bond uh... lighter relationship james bond

felix lighter that's you know the american version

uh... and it is just so cool and it and it gets

better throughout the uh... throughout the franchise

i think uh... just going to go into the reaction

a little bit now uh... the box office for mission

impossible open may twenty second nineteen ninety

six in three thousand twelve theaters the most

ever up to that point and broke the record for

a film opening on a wednesday with a with uh...

the u .s. eleven no eleven point eight million

beating the eleven point seven million that terminator

two made in nineteen ninety one while yeah a

tom cruise film beat in our church niger film

holy crap blasphemy The film also set a house

record in several theaters around the United

States. Mission Impossible grossed $75 million

in its first six days, surpassing the previous

record holder, Jurassic Park, and took in more

than $56 million over the four -day Memorial

Day weekend, beating out previous record holder,

the Flintstones. How did they beat the Flintstones?

That is the greatest film ever made. uh... uh...

uh... yeah i thought that's a that's incredible

that the flintstones had any hangs up at all

especially with rosie o'donnell is very all god

help us all as or actually uh... cruise deferred

his usual twenty million fee for the significant

percentage of the box office the film went on

to make a hundred eighty point nine million in

north america and two hundred seventy six point

seven million in the rest of the world for a

worldwide total of four hundred fifty seven points

six million while said prior worked out well

for crews uh... told you know not not that he

really needs it after all the movies he's made

before this uh... we also going to the root you

know we do talk about the reviewers but pretty

much every every episode of them wire steven

i are who are also have on with us we've basically

trashed reviewers as far as you know and all

them because uh... They just suck. They don't

know what good films are. I'm sorry. They just

don't. I think reviewers are incapable of putting

things in context. They trash action flicks for

whatever reason, for the storylines. Come on,

dude. It's an action flick. I don't need a giant

storyline that's indigestible. I just want to

see crap blow up and people decapitated. That's

what I want. It was a good movie. Exactly, and

it's like oh, you know the only comparison I

can make now as far as that that goes is is all

these And I am a transformers fanboy I always

will be but all these people going to see Revenge

of the Fallen saying oh my god It's so good.

You don't see a transformers live -action movie

to see a story exactly you go to see giant Devastator

balls and in robot uh... that's that's me i actually

liked it and i i mean i just it's giant freaking

robots blowing each other up you know get over

yourself you know it's just such as that pretentiousness

i mean my theory is it is no no movie critic

or or even food critic has ever has ever done

anything worthwhile so they they they critique

what they'd never i mean when it was last time

ebert produced a film yet shut up So, getting

back on track here, I'm going to skip right down

to the theme song and then we're going to go

into the next review. YouTube bandmates Larry

Mullen Jr. and Adam Clayton were fans of the

TV show and knew the original theme song well,

but were nervous about remaking Lilo Schrifin's

legendary theme song. Clayton put together his

own version in New York City and Mullen did his

in Dublin on the weekends between YouTube recording

sessions. The two musicians were influenced by

Brian Eno in the European dance club scene sound

of the recently finished album, Passengers. They

allowed Polygram to pick its favorite and they

wanted both. In a month, they had two versions

of the song and five remixed by DJs. All seven

tracks appeared on a limited edition vinyl release.

The song went to the top 10 on charts around

the world and nominated for a Grammy Award for

best pop. Best pop instrumental performance in

1997 is a definite critical and commercial success.

Mullen and Clayton were not involved with the

soundtrack for the 2000 sequel to the movie.

I apologize a pack of small effeminate dogs just

Ran by my microphone. So it was it was credible

left the door open That's fine. It's no big deal

crap The theme song was was amazing. And I mean

I was a I was a YouTube fan anyway Especially

96 my gosh, and I thought it was genius. I loved

it Yeah, couldn't get enough of it very very

much. So I I am in complete agreement So we are

going to move on to the second film and up next

you will hear the trailer for the second film.

to accept it involves recovery of a stolen item

designated Chimera. You may select any two team

members, but it is essential that the third team

member be Naya Nordolf Hall. She is a civilian

and a highly capable professional thief. You

have 48 hours to recruit Miss Nordolf Hall and

meet me in Seville to receive your assignment.

As always, should you or any member of your IAM

force be caught or killed, the secretary will

disavow all knowledge of your actions. And Mr.

Hunt, the next time you go on holiday, please

be good enough to let us know where you're going.

This message will self -destruct in five seconds.

If I let you know where I'm going, then I won't

be on holiday. uh... also known as m i dash two

it's a two thousand film directed by john wu

starring tom cruise who also served as the film's

producers sequel to brian de palma's nineteen

ninety -six film mission impossible with cruise

reprising his role as agent ethan hunt of the

i m f a top secret is phoenage and clandestine

operation agency uh... i didn't actually I mean,

I knew at the end of the first one when they

said, oh, would you like, you know, this tape

or this tape? And he's like, oh, they want me

back. I mean, I knew that that they were going

to be doing a sequel. I didn't realize it would

be that soon between, you know, four years between

filming or four years between release. But I

got to say Mission 2 is probably my favorite

out of the three. I agree with you. I think it

was a mature version of Juan and I think it's

interesting actually all three movies had different

directors. And they're so different, they're

such different movies. I mean, because of that,

and for other reasons too, but they're so different.

But I thought that this one was, when I think

of Mission Impossible, this is the movie I think

of. And so, yeah, it's quite essential, good

action, villain was genius, it was a good movie.

Oh yes, exactly. What was I gonna say? With Mission

2, actually with all three of them, I believe

I heard or saw somewhere Tom Cruise saying that

there would always be a different director. There

would always be a different story that doesn't

connect to the other films. The reason for that

being apparently the TV show, which I don't think

I've ever seen an episode of that maybe blasted

me to some people. I don't know. It's not something

I grew up watching. I preferred Michael Knight

and Kit. But anyway. Anyways, I believe each

of the episodes of the TV series were like basically

just one shots. Like each mission was just one

shot. So I think that was what Cruise was going

for with having, you know, De Palma, John Woo,

and then with third one JJ Abrams having different

visions for each mission. right uh... i think

that you know actually helps the uh... helps

the franchise Yeah, I mean it creates the diversity

between the films where it's not just it's I

mean Let's face it so many sequels are just just

absolutely the same feel the same vibe and almost

pointless So I mean these are three individual

movies that are all three really good movies

by themselves So yeah, I think it's smart. I

mean, it's definitely innovative. It's a different.

It's a different approach Yes, very very much

so So getting right into the plot, in Sydney,

Australia, at a facility called Biosite, a Russian

scientist named Dr. Nikorovich, and I cannot

pronounce the actor's name to save my life, so

I'm not even going to try, creates a virus called

Chimera, named after a Greek monster that had

the head of a lion and the tail of a serpent,

along with a cure known as Bellerophon, a Greek

warrior on horseback. Nikorovich calls upon Ethan

Hunt, Tom Cruise, to accompany him on a flight

to Atlanta, Georgia, with IMF presuming he means

to deliver Chimera to a safe hands. Whilst flying

over the Rocky Mountains, an announcement is

made by the captain, Hugh Stamp, played by Richard

Roxburr. Roxburr? Ah, I don't know, whatever.

I'm having a horrible time with names on this

episode. That there has been a drop in cabin

pressure as a precaution he releases the oxygen

masks Ethan gets up and finds out what is going

on. Meanwhile the masks knock out all the other

passengers and the co -pilots. When Ethan returns,

he kills Nikarvich by breaking his neck and reveals

himself to be IMF agent Sean Ambrose, played

by Dougray Scott. Ambrose and his team steal

Nikarvich's suitcase with sample vials inside

and parachute to safety just as the plane crashes

into the mountain. And again, like I said, I

was not expecting a sequel to the first film.

And when I first heard about this, I was like,

oh, I gotta go see that. In these first scenes,

they have set up a premise with the first film

where it starts you off it's basically a copycat

of James Bond films but it really isn't because

they use their own stuff but you know they set

it up where you have a prologue story like in

the first film they were in Kiev and then they

had to go to Prague and now you know this one

starts up where hunt is on vacation you know

climbing this giant rock and you know some helicopter

flies at him and shoots a missile and out pop

these amazing sunglasses which i wanted a pair

of pair who didn't go exactly those sunglasses

were so awesome i know uh... and then of course

it cuts to the you know the plane in in in this

that the other thing in everything else in it

this movie actually was actually threw me off

for uh... couple of scenes of this first one

where you see crews on vacation and you seem

again on the plane i was like wow that that was

really fast helicopter must have came back around

and picked him up right uh what did you think

of this opening for the second film it's great

i mean it's it's very woo i mean it's very john

woo it's just it's just over the top cinematography

and just i mean just thrills and chills i mean

he's got a style that's distinctive and uh i

mean it you're you're engaged from the opening

credits. And I mean, there's no lull there. I

mean, you're in it. And that is really good.

Very, very much so. And going into that scene

where Tom is on the mountain, and he's hanging

by his fingernails, again, I heard or saw somewhere

or read it somewhere that Tom Cruise actually

did that. That was not a green screen, blue screen

thing. They were actually on a cliffside. in

Australia hanging like, I don't know, something

like 10 ,000 feet above the ground or something

like that. That was a real place that they shot

that from. He is stupid. No chance. I think,

I mean, these movies, especially these two shots

you're talking about, the cliff hanging, and

then the previous film with the dangling from

the zipline deal, some of the most iconic recaptured

scenes and movie history. I mean, these are redubbed,

redone. Yeah, it was really cool to watch. Yeah,

I didn't really pick, I forgot to mention the

zipline scene. I mean, really go into it in the

first part of the show today, but that actually

comes back in this one when he breaks into the

lab later. Right. So in Texas, the real Ethan

Hunt is... It's in Texas? I thought it was in

Australia. Anyway, I don't know. I thought I

could've... Same thing. I mean, what's the difference?

Texas, Australia... Oh, but I thought the story,

I thought... They all talk funny. Yeah. uh...

so in texas apparently the really good on his

climbing a mountain free hand without any equipment

whilst on vacation when he reaches the top he

received a message from his superior mission

commander swan back play by anthony hopkins who

we need to mention was not credited at all He

was not credited for this film. It's not in his

IMDB. It's not in the actual. I don't even think

it's in the film credits. I didn't look at them,

but I would have to look at the ending credits

on the DVD, but I don't think he's actually listed

in there. Well, he's a nobody. I mean, why would

you credit Anthony Hopkins? Wow. No, I mean,

that's surprising. I mean, I would have plastered

that. I would have put it above... Tom Cruise's

name if I was in but well, maybe it was I mean

we can only speculate but maybe it was something

to where Even though he's in it him that get

getting credited. Maybe that maybe he didn't

get paid for it I will which I highly doubt I

know that sounds implausible But I mean maybe

maybe the non crediting was so he could take

a smaller fee or something. I I don't know We

can only speculate We will never know. Unless

of course I get an interview with Tom Cruise.

So who informs him that Chimera has been stolen?

If he accepts the mission in recovering he may

choose any two team members, but the third must

be Naya Nordoff -Hall played by Sandy Newton.

uh... a professional while he's yeah that's all

i wanna say is while he travels to seville spain

to find naya he finds her in the active trying

to steal a valuable diamond necklace from a club

the next morning he follows her through the countryside

where the two have a friendly car chase yeah

friendly car chase uh... that that's putting

it lightly in the chase nice car nearly goes

off the cliff and she is saved by even even convinces

her to join his team and she sleeps with him

Anyway. It's a natural course of events. Yes.

That evening, Ethan meets the commander at the

IMF HQ in Seville. Swanbeck informs Ethan that

Nikorovich, who is a good friend of Ethan's,

is dead, and Ethan is puzzled by About how I

am I've gotten a Corvich on the flight to Atlanta

without him Swanbeck explains that he couldn't

find Ethan at the time He sent Sean Ambrose instead

Ambrose having doubled for Ethan in the past

Now however Ambrose and his team have gone rogue

Swanbeck suggests that Naya be used to gain information

from Ambrose about his plans because Sean had

been Wanting Naya back oars ever since she left

him six months ago after a significant relationship

ended. You know again you know these plots and

offices are you know they're they're basically

meshing a whole bunch of scenes together but

that that's it's probably the best to get it

you know to get it pretty much the the general

gist of each scene. Now these scenes you know

again the car chase you know they they don't

really expound on the actual action of that chase

because that was so cool. What kind of cars were

they again? I forget. Ah, I believe one was an

Audi and the other might have been a BMW. I'm

not really sure. They were two convertibles.

They were sports cars. Yeah, right. But they

were, you know, just... And again, the music.

The music for this film, just like the first

film, this one more so, music fits it like Zap

Mama's Iko Iko is played when Cruz is doing his

whole cliff thing in the beginning. And in this

one you have like this orchestral type. almost

opera -type vocals in the background as they're

doing this whole car chase thing, and then when

the two cars lock together and they're spinning

around and around and around and hers ends up

almost going off the cliff, the music just impacts

the movie, I think. What about you? Yeah, absolutely.

It fits it perfect. And that whole scene, again,

it's very John Woo. I mean, John Woo always has

things flipping around and just, you know, defies

all logic and gravity and it's just perfect.

I mean, it's just fun to watch and it's a great

scene. Good casting, too. Come on, Fendi, Newton.

Geez, Luis. Come on. I wouldn't kick her out

of bed, anyway. Yeah, it's perfect. Yeah, I wasn't

looking at Tom Cruise. No, not at all. I'm just

saying. Ethan and Naya travel to Sydney where

Ethan meets with Luther Stickel, who is back.

And I knew that Luther was probably going to

come back, but just seeing him and just seeing

how he... arrives on this helicopter with this

other guy um... and they get out and the other

guys all you know billy he's all chipper and

you know ready to go and luther's like uh...

shit yes yes it is uh... eight hundred dollar

pair of gucci shoes and is like you know luther's

all high -end and but you know buying all the

stuff uh... So Luther joins in and also Billy

Baird played by John Polson. Naya meanwhile arrives

at Sean's compound to begin retrieving information

not before sleeping with Sean. Hugh's stamp questions

Sean about her as he is suspicious she may be

a Trojan horse sent by IMF. Sean cuts off Hugh's

finger for questioning him about her. And this

all goes back, you know, when I saw that scene,

you know, the whole questioning scene and then,

you know, using the cigar cutter to cut his finger

off. It's like, wow. It tells you what you're

dealing with. I mean what you're up against.

Oh, yeah, it does It's almost like I was like,

you know, Joe Pesci from Goodfellas getting ready

to shoot Ray Liotta's character for laughing

at him. Exactly. Later at the horse racing event

Ethan and his team are watching Sean and Naya.

Sean leaves Naya to go and speak to John C. McCloy

played by Brendan Gleason. the head of Biasite

and Nikorovich's boss, Sean shows McCloy a video

on a digital camera in the bar. When Sean returns

to Naya, she manages to get the camera's memory

card from Sean's left jacket pocket and then

goes to find Ethan. Sean knows the card is missing

but pretends to remain in the dark about it.

The video turns out to be footage of the effects

of Chimera had on one of Nikorovich's colleagues,

Gradsky, after a person has been infected with

it for 20 hours. Nothing can save him. them,

not even Bellerophon. Naya then makes it back

to Sean and places the memory card into his right

jacket pocket rather than his left. This whole

scene with the bedding and everything else and

her going to meet him, I thought it was a good

storyline as far as having the movie progress.

I mean, you do have some action with obviously,

you know, being at a betting track and you know,

you know, you see the horses racing and stuff

like that. But this was basically meant to tell

a part of the story and setting up the plot for

later. You know, I thought, you know, I don't

think there isn't a bad thing I can say about

this film. I really don't. Definitely this one

starts this new trend of this hopeless problem.

There doesn't seem to be a solution. It definitely

creates this grandiose thing for Ethan Hunt to

jump on and solve. It does a great job of just

pulling you in and being over the top and pretty

ridiculous in a great way. Yeah. Oh, very, very

much so. Later that evening, Ethan and his team

kidnap John C. McCloy when Billy poses as his

regular driver. McCloy wakes up in a hospital

bed and comes face -to -face with the ghost of

Nikorvich, who makes McCloy believe he is infected

with Chimera. McCloy then reveals that Nikorvich

had actually taken all of Biosite's bellerophon

in the vials he carried, stolen by Sean. When

traveling to Atlanta, IMF had thus been mistaken

in assuming that Shawn had stolen Chimera. McCloy

still has some of the virus and has made a deal

with Shawn to regain the cure stolen by Nicole

Rich. The ghost is revealed as Ethan in disguise,

meanwhile Nya is at Shawn's compound where she

meets Ethan, who tells her to stay there and

do what Shawn asks. When she goes, it is revealed

that Ethan and Sean are in disguise, now that

he knows of Naya's true allegiance, especially

when Naya tries to come on to him, and that Ethan

plans to go into Biasite to destroy Chimera.

Sean gathers his team together, and they head

to Biasite. And this was the plot that I was

mentioning earlier, where I got confused, where,

you know, Ethan is Nekorovich, and then Sean

is E. I was like, wait, what? I was like, huh?

What? What the hell is going on over here? First

of all, the dead scientist comes back to life,

and now Ethan is somewhere else where he really

isn't Ethan. It's like, what the hell? But again,

it all goes, I guess, to misdirection for Ethan

to learn what the deal is with the virus, and

then for Sean to learn the stuff from Naya. Just

the way that it pans out in viewing and it makes

you think that they're in two separate places

at once I think that's the takeoff of, I mean,

there's definitely some similarities between

all three movies, but I think that's the whole,

the principle we got with John Boyd's character

and the misdirection and not knowing, you know,

who's who and all that. And I think it's a lot

of the same sort of the vibe that they brought

to this. It's just how they did it was sort of

the misdirection and a little bit of guesswork.

And so not this all just spoon fed to us. It's

kind of what the heck is going on and why are

you here and who are you? Yeah, so it's the same

sort of premise and it works. I mean, it's that's

just the vibe of the film and it's it's pretty

cool Yes, very very much. So so at the same time

Ethan gets dropped into the biocide roof by Billy

He then goes about destroying the last remaining

samples of Chimera just as he is about to do

or the last of it Sean and his team open fire

and Ethan is ambushed during the gunfight the

last sample of the Chimera gets dropped to the

floor and Sean orders Naya to retrieve it. When

she does, she injects herself with it so Sean

will have to keep her alive. Ethan escapes and

Sean's team takes Naya away. This whole battle

scene, well first of all the whole scene of him

going in from the top and them basically shooting

their way through the bottom. It was so super

cool and again, you know, like we mentioned earlier

the scene from the first movie with the cord

and going into the mainframe room in the first

film comes back here where he's lowering himself

down through the ventilation or through the atrium.

He likes dangling. Yes, very much so. That sounds

gross, but he does. Tom Cruise likes to dangle.

I don't even want to know what he wants to dangle,

but anyway. This whole scene, once she injects

herself, it's very, very emotional. Yeah, that's

great. I mean, that was really unexpected. Man,

that's what creates a great kind of climax and

tension, something like that. I was genius. It

was really good. And the last thing I wanted

was her to die. Yes, very, very much so. The

next morning, Sean and his team go to Biasite

facility on the outskirts of Sydney, where they

meet John C. McCloy. During the meeting, Sean

sets Nia loose in downtown Sydney. As she is

infected with Chimera, demand for Bellerophon

will skyrocket, starting with 17 million people

in Australia. Sean demands McCloy's money for

funding a massive purchase of stock options,

so that Sean would then make billions and would

also own 51 % of Biasite. McCloy refuses at first,

but having no choice transfers the money. Ethan

breaks up the meeting by blowing down the door.

Sean sends Hugh Stamp and some other of his men

to kill Ethan after he is spotted through the

fire caused by the explosion. Just to talk about

that scene really quick, this is a John Woo movie

and it wouldn't be a John Woo movie with doves.

plot without dot without does or some sort of

bird flying around in slow motion that's it that

to me and even then i mean it was two thousand

right it was hope it was hilarious to me oh yes

very i i i think i left out loud because i was

like a genius absolutely no i don't know i completely

agree john wu loves birds what are you gonna

do it back up and i tell you what tom cruise

uh... i can make fun of him but he plays pissed

off really really well and uh... he gets pissed

I'm like yeah come on and so this yeah this is

fantastic scene and it was a lot of fun. Yes

very very much so. Which I think this the synopsis

is wrong, but don't worry anyway Hugh stamp finds

Ethan and first after a little hand -to -hand

combat Ethan drops a grenade which explodes and

kills Hugh Ethan then calls into Sean pretending

He is Hugh and after Sean shoots who he believes

is Ethan is revealed. He has killed Hugh from

the bandage on his finger which was awesome yes

the the diversion allows you to the steel ballerath

on in a car chase between both even and shaw

and steams breaks uh... breaks out along the

sydney coast roads uh... now the grenade it did

not it didn't kill uh... you when he said what's

the grenade go because the grenade tumble down

the hallway and exploded off, not off camera,

but away from them. He basically masked Hugh

as himself and then obviously used Hugh's mask

for himself, but he taped Hugh's mouth shut so

he could only mumble. It was just ingenious.

It was just an ingenious scene. I love it. And

bringing back the mask thing, I mean, again,

there is some connecting pieces between the films

and I thought this was, it's just really smart.

You know, it's a very smart scene and well done

and it's very cool. I like that. Oh, yeah. And

just, and again, going back to iconic images

of these films, it is an iconic image when Cruz

passes by the burning doorway because it's like,

It's like that holy shit moment in a movie where

you're like, oh, that's him. And then you see

the villain's look on the villain's face, and

he's like, kill him now. That's awesome. Yeah.

So during the battle... Luther manages to locate

Naya who is on the cliffs about to kill herself

so she can't affect any other people with Chimera.

Ethan orders Luther and Billy to go and collect

her while he deals with the rest of Ambrose's

team. After a short motorbike chase, Ethan leads

Sean to a deserted beach where they fight each

other in hand -to -hand combat during which Sean

nearly kills Ethan with a knife to the eye. Ethan

gains the upper hand and knocks Sean unconscious

before Luther and Billy arrive with Naya. Just

as Ethan is walking to Naya, Sean points a gun

at Ethan from behind and tries to shoot him.

Luckily Ethan finds his gun in the sand in time

to shoot Amros himself. Naya is injected with

Bellerophon just in time. This scene, I love

the fact that they use the motorcycles. Not just

for the beach scene but having Ethan and Sean

on separate bikes throughout the whole battle

from the compound. When Ethan does the whole

smoke thing to confuse the Jeep and then the

truck comes in and just boom Blows that you know

runs the Jeep over and blows that that was just

so so awesome You know and again of facts, you

know, whether they use major effects or you know,

whatever It's just so so awesome and then with

with the beach scene with the bikes i'd believe

it was john wu either on the commentary for this

i believe this commentary for this film on here

uh... he had said it was kinda like uh... twenty

-first century jousting he wanted you know the

feel of you know it's going together you know

jousting so what did you think of these these

final battle scenes here I'm with you I like

that I like the motorcycle premise I think I

mean we've done the car thing I mean motorcycle

chase scene very cool the beach scene was classic

I mean it was the most ridiculous unrealistic

fight scene to date and I loved every second

of it I mean I thought was really it almost There's

no other fight scene like this in either of the

other movies. It's just over the top, gravity

-defying. I love the hacky sack, kick your gun

up, catch it, shoot behind you, junk. It was

sick. It was almost matrix -y in a sense, but

it was very cool. Even the scene where the knife

is going towards Ethan's eye, oh, dude, come

on. It's just a really cool fight scene. Really

well done. And again, very Woo. It's very John

Woo. Oh yes, very much so. Well that scene with

the knife guy, I believe it's a special feature

on the thing, or like I said before, Woo might

mention it in the commentary. They only had a...

Excuse me. They had a... Like you know how you

lift your arm up to... to arm wrestler you have

it up on something to arm wrestle someone Tom

Cruise told John Louie said just let him do it

let it come within you know two inches of my

eye because I want it to look real and again

goes the fact that Tom Cruise is high up on wanting

to do his own stunts and everything else and

that came within two inches of his own eye that

was not a CGI effect that was real and they had

like a a stopper on Dougray Scott's hand for

that. And the final part of the plot here, later

Ethan informs Swanbeck that the chimera was all

destroyed by fire and that is why he couldn't

bring a living sample of the virus back. He then

goes on another vacation, this time with Naya

in Sydney. Overall, this movie, I love this movie.

I mean, when I'm in the mood for a spy espionage

type action film, this is what I will watch.

I'm thinking I need to buy it. Yeah, you do.

That's what I'm thinking. It's been a while since

I've seen it and yeah, it's really, really good.

I think I actually saw this one twice in the

theater, if I'm not mistaken. I think I actually

went back and I never do that. I know a lot of

people do, but I don't because I'm broke but

i actually think i think i actually went back

and saw this one twice and uh... i was i mean

really into it very cutting -edge uh... i i'm

gonna go on record i think this might be one

of my favorite if not my favorite tom cruise

movie very cool uh... you know for me i believe

i saw the theater but i don't remember i think

this is probably one where i just got it on vhs

or you know dvd was just coming out back in two

thousand you know that that error was just starting

uh... you know going down the cast list you have

tom cruise degree scott sandy newton ving raines

richard roxborough uh... john paulson brendan

gleason at that what's his name uh... on on wiki

they they listen but they also say he's uncredited

uh... yeah uh... then you have the guy that played

in the courage uh... william may bother dominant

are so basically nobody else that i've actually

heard of uh... yet but like all these main people

like uh... do gray scott was actually supposed

to be the uh... he was supposed to be in another

form all you uh... i believe only we've reviewed

another film series it might have been diehard

it might have been something else i i remember

on another ever on a previous episode of them

were aware There was a film that was coming out

that year that he was up for, but he declined

the contract due to the obligations for this

film. Just overall top -notch casting on this

one. What else has he been in? I can't remember

seeing him in too many others. Didn't he do that

stupid movie with Drew Barrymore? Uh, which stupid

movie with Drew Barrymore? There are a lot of

stupid movies with Drew Barrymore. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Uh, the one stupid, the, um, the fairytale

one, uh, Ever After. Oh, maybe. I think that

was him, if I'm not mistaken. Possibly. I, I

would have to look it up. One of your lady listeners

needs to email you and let you know, because,

uh, none, I'm ashamed to even, uh, think I know

that. Yes, go over the production really quick

and then the box office reception all that other

stuff. Excuse me. Actually, before I do that,

I think we're going to split this up because

this is kind of the plot for this one is actually

running long. So we're going to take a break.

We're going to put in some audio in between this

and we're going to come back with all the particulars

on Mission Impossible 2. You mean it'll be difficult?

Very. Well, this is not mission difficult, Mr.

Hunt. It's mission impossible. Difficult should

be a walk in the park for you. Okay, going into

the production stuff for this film, for Mission

Impossible 2, production of the film was troubled

and was shut down for several weeks as the script

was reworked. As a result, both Dougray Scott

and Thanny Newton lost the chance to appear in

starring roles in other films. Cruz and Wu had

reportedly clashed several times throughout filming

over creative differences, but both walked away

from it in good terms. The studio expressed concern

over the safety of filming Ethan Hunt's entrance

in the film where he is rock climbing. Cruz refused

to drop the idea because he could not think of

a better way to reintroduce the character. There

was no safety net as he filmed the sequence,

but he did have a harness he tore his shoulder

when performing Hunt's jump from one part of

the cliff to the other. uh... which again i a

i have read that somewhere or heard it somewhere

something i was like while i mean again you know

going into the age or or starting the age of

of a lot of actors doing their own stunts like

obviously jack and jake jaggy jane is the biggest

one i can think of he does all his own stuff

and he's been doing for years obviously before

this film ever had you know the light in the

design but uh... just This is just crazy. As

far as the box office, the film was a financial

hit and grossed close to $215 million in its

domestic North American release and approximately

$331 million abroad. It was the highest grossing

movie of 2000. Wow. Man. A lot of movies that

came out in 2000. This was the highest grossing

one. I know. The budget was $125 million. The

marketing costs were $37 ,200 ,000. opening weekend

gross domestic was fifty seven million eight

hundred forty five thousand two hundred ninety

seven dollars uh... and again like i said two

hundred fifty million uh... the total worldwide

gross was five hundred forty six million three

hundred eight thousand hundred five dollars um...

the reception crew react critical reaction to

mission possible to was next the film holds a

rating of fifty seven percent on rotten tomatoes

sixty out of a hundred on metacritic uh... and

i i have to read this just because i want to

know what the guy said and i want to be able

to crash in right the chicago sometime said that

if the first movie was entertaining As sound

fury and movement this one is more evolved more

confident more sure -footed in the way it marries

minimal character development to seamless action

Okay, wow positive. I think that's the first

for movie We can review a positive review that

we've seen for a movie by Ebert Someone else

Owen Gilberman of entertainment weekly felt the

film was a throwaway pleasure, but also a triumph

of souped -up action God. Alright. Fucking critics.

Fucking critics. Going into the music, the score,

the original score was composed by Hans Zimmer

performed by Lisa Gerard. And again, you know,

that's why this score is is so awesome. I mean,

Hans Zimmer, for Christ's sake, he's done tons

of other stuff. I mean, the most recent thing

I can think he did was the Dark Knight. That's

right. What what garbage did something did they

do? Did they redo the theme song for this movie?

No It's on the soundtrack. It's not on the score.

I don't look at the soundtrack. Okay, but it

was garbage, right? I'm like yeah they did a

song on here but i don't know what it was i'd

don't no it wasn't the city no the theme song

was redone by lint biscuit on this one that's

right that's right of the garbage i believe they

did have a track on the on the soundtrack i just

don't know what it was on the mission possible

to soundtrack includes lint biscuits rendition

of uh... well share friends mission impossible

theme uh... and they called it take a look around

uh... And why the hell? Oh, okay, never mind.

That's where two ends and three begins. Overall

thoughts on this one. Again, I think it's the

best in the franchise. To me, it is Mission Impossible.

I don't think of the other two as much as I do

this one. Even when you mentioned the movie,

what we're gonna be talking about tonight, I

was like, I'm thinking Thandie Newton. And then

that made me hungry for Fig Newtons. Just word

of association. I think this is a really good

movie. I mean, it's really good. And it's kinda

in that breed up. This is a time. where there

was a lot of over -the -top action, and it's

almost like Hollywood found some new toys with

special effects, and I don't know. But it was

a very over -the -top action period. I think

Matrix was the year before this. There's a lot

going on, and this one really stood out, and

it's tough to do, so it's a good movie. Very,

very much so. So up next, you will hear the trailer

for the third film, and we're gonna go into the

review of Mission Impossible 3. We'll be right

back. Who are you? Do you have a... Do you have

a wife, girlfriend? Whoever she is, I'm gonna

find her. I'm gonna hurt her. And then I'm gonna

kill you right in front of her. Alright, and

finally today, we're going to be discussing Mission

Impossible 3, also known as MI3, 2006 action

film, the third based in the spy -themed television

series Mission Impossible starring Tom Cruise,

reprises the role of I .M .F. agent Ethan Hunt.

The film was directed by J .J. Abrams. It was

first released on April 26, 2006 at the Tribeca

Film Festival and widely released in the United

States on May 5, 2006. Filming began in Rome,

Italy in July 2005. The film was kept under extremely

tight wraps and very little was known of its

plots or new featured characters during filming.

Location filming took place in China, Shanghai,

all into other cities that i can't pronounce

uh... germany when berlin italy rome and concert

in the united states california and virginia

and vatican city The third one, I actually just

started watching today. I kind of had to skip

around through it to kind of get the general

gist of it because what I like to do for MWIRE

is the week before we record, I will watch whatever

movies or movie that we're going to be reviewing

just so I can have a fresh look at it and just

a refresher course, even though I read through

the synopsis and stuff like that. And this one

is very, very different from the previous two.

Yes, agreed. As far as the way it starts off,

it doesn't start like your normal Mission Impossible

film. And I think the reason for that is bringing

in J .J. Abrams. uh... and just having his his

direction i mean you know i know we've said throughout

the entire episode tonight that uh... you know

having three different directors in three different

visions even though you still have tom cruise

basically running the show even though the director

is technically supposed to be the boss you know

it it's just there's so many different levels

each of these films and this one has to be a

giant departure anything that the other two had

the only only two main, um, remnants of the other

two films is obviously Ethan and Luther. And

they're, I shouldn't say relationship, they're

not gay lovers. Spoiler alert, they get married

at the end, so yeah, it's really romantic. Tom

Cruise and Ving Rhames in Australia. Broke back

and possible. It was really good. Oh wow, that

is going to be the best quote. Oh wow. I'm going

to have to quote that on Twitter for the episode

of the week's quote. Oh my god. Wow. Did you

like Alias? Did you like that show? I loved Alias.

Did you? See, I didn't like Alias and to me J

.J. Abrams didn't get, he wasn't cool to me until...

I'm a big Lost fan, so, and then since Lost,

I mean, everything he does is gold. I didn't

like Alias, and I think this was, Alias was kind

of the reason Tom Cruise wanted Abrams to direct,

right? So, and actually I heard that Abrams is

actually in talks with him for doing another

one. and don't know if they would do i don't

know why i really haven't heard anything about

the fourth one i know that it's probably gonna

happen eventually right uh... i don't think it's

gonna happen anytime soon i would not foresee

uh... this one just came out oh six it's all

nine now new there's so many comic book movies

coming out next year and then the year after

i a foresee that this mission four would not

come until maybe 2012 -2013. It just depends.

I know next year Marvel will own cinema as far

as action type movies as well as 2011 with all

of their comic book films coming out. It actually

shocked me to actually learn that the guy that

created alias and lost lost I'm not really that

into I really could give a shit less about it

But the guy that created alias right and did

this film was the creator of Felicity for Christ

sakes Yeah, and I cannot, I'm sorry, but I cannot

take Keri Russell seriously at all. And I've

never seen an episode of Felicity, but I saw

her in this movie and I was just like, I don't

care what happens to you. I mean, I can't take

you seriously at all. I mean, I didn't get that.

And I understand their relationship or whatever,

but I thought that was really, that was bad casting.

I don't want to see Felicity in my... three here

come on uh... uh... i'm actually the opposite

of that opinion uh... we use it yours is wrong

then uh... here at the boss of this show sir

so uh... i think this is and all your stuff out

now i think that's what i think i can't uh...

and i wouldn't do it anyway but anyway uh...

no i mean uh... the majority of stuff that i've

seen for our policy ups kerry russell in uh...

i've seen her in a couple of lifetime movies

i i know when she played with uh... what's his

name of the dad from uh... all christ the dead

from seventh heaven it was the the the bay area

but i don't know some lifetime movie i was i

don't know i i was flipping channels one afternoon

and i ended up falling asleep to it and she was

in it and i ended up catching in on dvd or whatever

anyway uh... you know The only other film that

I've actually really remember her from was eight

days a week Okay, which is a really really awesome

type comedy film. Anyway, I thought she did fairly

well in this for what? Is she the voice of Wonder

Woman in the animated DC? Did you see that? I

have not seen it yet. I haven't either. Maybe

my opinion will change of her. Everybody's opinion

changes of female actors once they voice large

-breasted Wonder Women. This is a total departure

very different from the other two. I mean six

years later, so a lot's changed just like this

I'll admit this, I actually didn't even, I had

no desire to see this one in the theater. As

much as I liked the second one, there was nothing

that intrigued me. And again, we're, I mean,

I think Tom Cruise has had two careers, pre and

post, you know, crazy opinion of him. And so

this is obviously in the latter years in the

post crazy opinion of him. So I don't know if

it was that reason or what, but I saw it on a

plane. uh... and so it cost me you know a dollar

for the headphones so i checked it out i didn't

i didn't hate it uh... it's definitely my third

in the list of favorites you know the only thing

for me and i'll mention this once i start going

down the synopsis paragraphs the only thing for

me is like i said it is a complete departure

from the other two films as far as the way the

story is told it's not It's not so much focused

on the technology, even though the technology

is there, and it's not so much just focused on

the espionage, as like in 2, where you're getting

confused where Hunt is playing Nikorovich, and

then Ambrose is playing Hunt. It's so much more,

it's more character development for Hunt, and

we will get into that. uh... even hunt played

by tom cruise as always has retired from being

an i a m f team leader instead opting for a quiet

life with his fiance julia played by michelle

monahan a hospital nurse during their engagement

party even receives a call from his old friend

john musgrave played by billy crudup who provides

him with a disposable camera after viewing video

hidden in the camera. He finds Musgrave wants

him to rescue Agent Lindsay Ferris, played by

Kerry Russell, Ethan's protege, who has been

captured in Berlin by Owen Davian, played by

Philip Seymour Hoffman, a prominent dealer in

the international black market. He reluctantly

agrees to participate in the mission and meets

the team which has been selected for him, consisting

of Declan Gormley played by Jonathan Rhys Myers,

Zendley played by Maggie Q, and his old partner,

Louis Thurstickle, played by Ving Rhames. I think

the outset of Carrie Russell, which her scenes

were very short until her head exploded, and

then obviously the majority of it's flashback,

outside of her being the eye, Maggie Q is the

eye candy of this film. And she's great, I mean,

she's, yeah. I liked her in the third, was it

the fourth Die Hard, right? Yeah, yes. Die Hard,

yep. Yep. This is what we actually talked about

two weeks ago. Yeah. You know, and again, bringing

Luther back. And it's nice that they have that

continuity between the three films where you

have Ethan and Luther, Ethan and Luther, Ethan

and Luther. Because you have to bring something

back, even though each film, as we've said before,

is individual of each other. And again, starting

this film off where where it shows you that Ethan

has been captured along with his fiance and Hoffman

is questioning him who he is, you know, yada

yada yada, and he's like, well, I'm just gonna

shoot her. You have 10 seconds to tell me. And

then it goes into the opening credits and it

flashes you back to this party that they're talking

about. And it's like, you're like, whoa, wait,

did they survive that? Or is this before that

happens? uh... and then it skips to the scene

where they are uh... him and uh... must graver

whoever is supposed to be in the uh... you can

the seven eleven right but okay two spies in

a seven eleven that is just funny i'm so i think

it just wasn't there it's like a place that you

would not see them in and you know all of and

as most grave leaves also does is just like tap

uh... a kodak disposable camera And again, going

into the technology of these films, it just goes

to show you how different each one of the mission

things is. Obviously, the first film, you have

the airline, headphones and videos. The second

film, you have the sunglasses. This one, you

have a disposable camera. Now, I don't really

care for disposable cameras, so I wasn't like,

oh my God, I must have that. Like I was with

the sunglasses But not this not the same effect

no no not at all, but it was still a good way

to visualize the the overlaying of the mission

Right on the team assaults an enemy stronghold

in Berlin extracts agent Ferris successfully

But she dies during their escape when an explosive

capsule placed inside her head detonates after

Lindsey's funeral Ethan is notified of a quote

-unquote package to sent to him by Lindsey and

discovers that it is a Micro dot hidden in a

blank postcard Ethan discusses its possible importance

with Luther and both decide to keep its existence

secret When they start the mission in berlin

to extract her after each one of them is book

broken off and going into their own thing in

luther is still in the in the surveillance manner

whatever is in uh... when he starts the distraction

i hear these loud bangs like an earthquake only

what the heck is that he's got this like it's

not a balkan can but it's some sort of giant

machine gun any sitting there in the in the van

tapping like two things almost like video game

controllers. Shooting the guns and I was like,

that is so cool. That was awesome. Yeah, it was

so awesome. And then, you know, the main scenes

with Russell are here with her being this full

on action chick with the gun and shooting people

and everything else. And the two of them basically

just doing gunplay with everybody else as far

as being basically almost tandem. right to each

other i thought that was really really cool uh...

what did you think of the battle scene here is

a lot of fun i i mean i i don't want to be the

dead horse but you know carey russell holding

guns i'm sorry i want to i want to have one of

believe it you know i want to get involved but

uh... yeah it was good though it was good action

yeah absolutely so uh... with the assistance

from benji done played by simon peg Holy crap,

which yeah, he did a phenomenal phenomenal job.

Yeah. Well, yeah, not only that Comparisons for

this movie you have JJ Abrams Who did this as

well as Star Trek? Yeah exactly egg played Scotty

in Star Trek. Yep I believe it was Simon Pegg

that played Scotty in Star Trek you know you

got it that's right uh... i was gonna say i'm

sure steve uh... my co -founder of the cast radio

uh... would uh... that's a uh... podcasting there

we have would correct me if i was wrong so Yeah,

that's right. I guess I don't know if they had

a pre -existing relationship or not they met

on this film, but yeah Yeah, I thought I mean

that was a highlight for me was was and that

was that was my first exposure to Simon Pegg

so yeah Yeah, it was good that until I read the

line right there, and I didn't even realize that

when I watched earlier tonight An IMF laboratory

technician, the information recovered from a

laptop in Berlin mission makes Ethan go after

Davey and himself, targeting him at a meeting

in the Vatican City where a lucrative transaction

involving a mysterious object, codenamed the

rabbit's foot, is apparently taking place. Neither

of Ethan's superiors, directors Brassel, played

by Laurence Fishburne, or Musgrave have authorized

the mission. Before leaving, Ethan reassures

Julia of their relationship and promptly marries

her at the hospital in a small ceremony. The

team arrives in Rome and sets off their elaborate

plan to abduct Davian. The operation narrowly

succeeds. Ethan interrogates Davian on the flight

home. However, he is angered by Davian's quiet

but confident threats of killing his wife and

attempts to throw him off the plane before being

talked out of it by Luther. These scenes, well

first of all going into Vatican City in Rome

and starting an argument in the middle of the

street getting out of vehicles to to provide

a distraction and then him basically walking

up the wall with his little uh... his little

peat on that he used you know for for harness

uh... it's called reverse repelling off of that

uh... that was awesome yes great is just so sober

it was so different again it shows you what different

steps that they have taken in this film compared

to the other two exactly you know it's not him

just dangling off of a wire down to a room or

something uh... you know and again the uh...

the first thing he says once he uh... once he

gets up to the top and he's like humpy dumpy

sat on a wall and it's like it's just it's just

funny lines uh... I don't know, what did you

think of this part of the film? I'm trying to,

is this the scene where, is this where we're

introduced to Philip Seymour Hoffman, or is the

bathroom scene and all that, is that the same

place here? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I'm trying

to picture it again, because it's been a while

since I've seen it, but yeah, I like that a lot.

I mean, it's definitely low tech. arguing in

the middle of the street, creating a distraction.

Very low tech, very unexpected. You know, you

expect explosions and, hey, we blow up a car

outside, so. But yeah, it's great. And again,

doesn't Ethan wear the mask again? Yeah, well,

actually, it's very funny. Before they went to

the bathroom, Luther, Maggie Q is actually inside

the party. She shows up in this Lamborghini.

Yeah, yeah. Oh dude, come on. And that dress

she was wearing, oh my god. Yeah, anyway. Good

casting, good casting. That's pretty much the

only thing we can say is good casting. She shows

up to be a distraction, not really a distraction,

but to photograph Davian, to send the pictures

to Luther. who uh... is set up in the basement

i believe and has a mask molding machine with

him yeah that's right and they digitize the mask

and it's like that this whole you know robotic

arms thing and paints and everything else and

then that's how they which i'd like that because

in the first two films they don't show you how

to create the mask exactly yeah uh... which i

thought that was really cool that they did this

one Like I like that. I like keeping that that

element in all three movies. I think that's that's

cool. Yeah, like that. Yep And once they get

into the bathroom, I think it's funny that he

has to make Davian read these Before they can

actually get a voice print. I mean, you know

After what's his name? Christ I forget what the

the other guy's name is uh... the guy that uh...

the third guy uh... the one that jonathan rise

meyers plays crap i forget uh... the other team

member uh... the one that was flying a helicopter

uh... he uh... he's basically holding the real

david wall tom cruz is like coughing in in the

guard comes in like like paul holywood police

finger up in because he's waiting for the the

digital voice print to come through Again, awesome

is not a word that can be used enough for these

films. So while transporting Davian across the

Chesapeake Bay Bridge tunnel in a convoy, Luther

hands Ethan a laptop computer and plays the video

message from the decoded micro dot, Lindsay had

discovered that director Brassil is a mole who

has been leaking information to Davian about

IMF operations. Suddenly, Ethan and his team

are attacked by foreign mercenaries. After attacking

Ethan and his team using a UAV drone, they manage

to extract Davion. Remembering Davion's threats

to kill his wife, Ethan immediately rushes to

the hospital where Julia works. He arrives moments

too late and finds that Julia has already been

abducted. At that moment of despair, Ethan receives

a call from Davion with a proposition. He must

retrieve the rabbit's foot. Within 48 hours or

Julia will be killed. Ethan, anxious to begin

his mission to rescue his wife, is abruptly taken

into custody by the IMF, accused of masterminding

the ambush. However, he manages to escape with

help from Musgrave, who intercepted Ethan's call

from Davion, and instructs Ethan to go to Shanghai

to find the rabbit's foot. I gotta admit, these

were scenes that I pretty much skipped around

when I was trying to refresh myself. is not something

I really, really remember. So I think we're just

gonna move on. I will say this I really like

the dynamic fit fish Lawrence Fishburne and Whoever

the guy put must grave and so I love the whole

that that sort of element I was something new

in a kind of new premise new concept and I thought

that was kind of a cool Element and great actors.

I mean Lawrence Fishburne. Come on. That's awesome

When I first even saw this movie before I even

really noticed the credits when I first watched

it three years ago and I first saw him in the

original you know in the in the first scene that

he did I was like what the hell is Morpheus doing

in a mission? You know, I was like, wait, what

the heck, is Neo going to show up now? If only,

yeah. Yeah, if only. But I thought, I just thought

his character was very intriguing. Kind of added

just another, you know, element. And it goes

to the rotating bosses. You had Kittredge, well

you had Phelps in Kittredge, but basically Kittredge

was the boss in the first film. Right. And what's

his name, Anthony Hopkins' character in the second

film, and now you have this, you know. these

guys. So in Shanghai Ethan reunites with his

team once more who have been informed by Musgrave

what's going on and manages to infiltrate the

heavily guarded building containing the rabbit's

foot and steals it. Ethan then goes to the established

meeting place where Davian's car is waiting told

to ask no questions. He is made to drink a substance

which knocks him out and wakes to learn an explosive

capsule isn't planted in his brain. Oh boy, and

speaking of the Explosive Castle, before I continue

reading this part of the paragraph, wasn't that

something that they used in Alias? I could have

sworn that I have seen that in Alias, because

obviously this is J .J. Abrams we're talking

about here. I never really watched much of the

show at all, so I don't remember, but I would

not be surprised. I think it was. It definitely

has a familiar smell to it. Yes, exactly. The

scene shown in the prologue then ensues. Julia

and Ethan are bound to chairs and Davion threatens

to kill Julia if he is not told the location

of the rabbit's foot. Ethan in panic insists

that he has delivered it. However after counting

to ten Davion executes Julia. After Davian leaves,

Musgrave enters revealing himself as the traitor

and explains the situation to a stunned Ethan.

Davian will sell the rabbit's foot to known Middle

Eastern enemies of the United States resulting

in an attack being anticipated and controlled

to generate only quote unquote acceptable losses.

The concept of a false flag attack taken to the

next level. This will then justify a massive

retaliation that would result in an internationally

supported hostile takeover of the region. He

shows that the dead quote -unquote Julia was

actually one of Davion's incompetent personnel,

who was played by someone whose name I cannot

pronounce, wearing a mask used to make sure that

Ethan had brought the real rabbit's foot. Julia

is still alive. Ethan escapes by biting Musgrave's

arm. before attacking him and taking his phone,

which is used to track down Julia's location

with help from Benji. And again, the use of masks,

not the art of misdirection and confusion on

this. You know, it was just awesome. Agreed.

And Musgrave, I mean, that was a great little

turn. I like that. I mean, I think Fishburne

does a great job kind of Helping you believe

that he is he is the mole and everything and

then the term with Musgrave. That's that's pretty

cool I enjoyed that. Oh, yes, very very much

so Ethan finally finds Julia, but before he can

free her Davian activates the bomb in Ethan's

head The result is a splitting noise in Ethan's

head which renders him incapable of thinking

properly and defending himself Davian then begins

to savagely beat Ethan just as David prepares

to kill him Ethan recovers sufficiently to tackle

Davian both of them falling from the window to

the road below, where Davian is killed when a

truck hits him, leaving nothing but his shoe.

Ethan looses power cables to put electricity

through his body to deactivate the bomb in his

head, and then quickly teaches Julia how to shoot.

Julia turns on the power, which seemingly kills

Ethan, after which Musgrave attacks her. After

killing Musgrave, she successfully resuscitates

Ethan with CPR and the two walk out with the

rabbit's foot as Ethan proceeds to tell Julia

the truth about his secret life. What did you

think of these final scenes here? Not a fan,

to be honest with you. This is where this movie

really lost me. I thought the stuff in Shanghai

was pretty cool, but this last sort of deal,

I just... i mean i like if you will feel seaworthy

half of that there's a lot of fun as a villain

but uh... i don't i don't know if it was the

whole electrocuting to defuse the bomb saying

recessed i don't i don't know but uh... i just

didn't get me i didn't get it so yeah i think

for me throughout the whole film the double life

for you then i thought it was a cool concept

yeah but at the end it you know it gave him more

emotion that he's had in previous adventures

you know he had a motion for for Naya in the

in the second film but it was you know it wasn't

like this one where you know he's he's basically

almost walked away from the life of of being

a spy and has tried to have a normal life uh...

which i kinda liked and kind of did not at all

so anyway back at headquarters he says congratulated

for his heroic actions of the leaves for his

quote -unquote honeymoon with julia with the

blessing of his applauding teammates and promises

for another mission which the white house is

keen to contact him about uh... and again this

sets up the fourth film which i don't know if

they're actually going to use this but he asks

uh... what's his name loans brussell what the

rabbit's foot is he said well if you don't quit

you come back all i'll tell you yeah uh... which

again sets up a fourth film which we don't yet

know what uh... what that would be about her

when yeah uh... going into the casting all red

was going up some final thoughts like overall

for for this one would you think uh... it was

okay i mean i they haven't made a bad Mission

possible movie yet, you know, I would not say

this is a bad movie I just this is probably my

least favorite of the three. Yeah, it was there's

some element missing. I don't know what it was

I do I do think something they've done really

well is the difference of of all the villains

I mean, they're very different types of villains,

different types of personalities and backgrounds

and motives. So I thought Hoffman was fun. I

mean, he's a great actor anyway, so that was

a coup getting him to play that part. But overall,

there's some sort of empty feeling that this

one left me with. I didn't really like it as

much as I did the other two. Yeah, I kind of

completely agree. this you know as far as hoffman

goes uh... he has got to be the most uh... most

notorious out of the three villains out of each

home because i mean he pretty much threatens

egan's life to the point where you know his wife

or you know something that actually means something

to him is in danger uh... going into the cast

really quick uh... you'd obviously tom cruz is

the even hunt Philip Seymour Hoffman as Owen

Davy and Jonathan Lee Myers as Declan Gormley.

Vang Rheims recurring as Luther. Billy Crudup

as John Musgrave. Michelle Monahan as Julia Mead.

Kerry Russell as Lindsay Ferris. Maggie Q. Simon

Pegg. Andy Marsham who played Brownway. And Laurence

Fishburne. The production for this one, director

David Fincher, Fight Club and Seven, was slated

to direct MI3, but dropped out in favor of another

film. Fincher was then replaced by direct director

Joe Carnahan, but he quit in a dispute over the

film's tone. To promote the film, Paramount rigged

4 ,500 randomly selected Los Angeles Times vending

boxes with digital audio players, which would

play the theme song when the door was opened.

The audio players did not always stay concealed,

however, and in many cases came loose and fell

on top of the stack of newspapers. That's funny.

With the result that they were widely mistaken

for bombs. Oh my gosh, that's funny. Police bomb

squads detonated a number of vending boxes and

even temporarily shut down a veterans hospital

in response to the... Oh god. Marketing gone

wrong. Exactly. Marketing hell. Despite these

problems, Paramount and LA Times opted to leave

the audio players in the boxes until two days

after the movie's opening. That's fine. The night

scenes involving the skyscrapers were filmed

in Shanghai while some of the Shanghai filming

was also done in Los Angeles. Tom Cruise called

JJ Abrams offering a job as a director for the

film after having... Actually, yeah. after having

binge -watched the first two seasons of alias

so yeah that's why he got the job was um... was

was alias yeah uh... the trip quote -unquote

trapped in the closet controversy now i don't

know about this a blog entry of hollywood interrupted

dot com in march alleged that the comedy central

parent via com concealed the rebroadcast of the

south park episode trapped in the closet due

to threats of crews to abstain from the mission

impossible three publicity circle These assertions

were soon also reported by E! News and American

Morning. Fox News attributed threats from Tom

Cruise stating to back out of his Mission Impossible

3 promotional duties if Viacom didn't pull a

repeat of the episode as evidence of, quote -unquote,

bad blood between Cruise and Viacom. The Washington

Post reported that South Park fans, quote -unquote,

stroked back in March 2006 and threatened to

boycott Mission Impossible 3 until Comedy Central

put traffic in the closet back on its schedule.

Melissa McNamara of CBS News later questioned

whether this boycott hurts Impossible Box Office

debut. When asked in ABC's primetime about his

involvement with stopping the episode rebroadcast

on Comedy Central, Cruz stated, You know, making

my movie, I've got my family, I'm busy, I don't

spend my days going, what are people saying about

me? A representative of Cruz and also not any

involvement of Cruz with the issues specifically

responding to allegations of Cruz's repeated

corporate power play. Which, it's ridiculous.

You know, if the guy didn't even know about it,

ugh, god. Oh, South Park. As far as the release,

opening in 4054 theaters all across the United

States, the fourth largest opening ever. The

film easily topped the box office in its opening

weekend and it made 16 .6 million on its opening

day. It made $47 .7 million in its opening weekend,

a solid opening yet well below industry expectations

and almost $10 million lower than the franchise's

previous installment. On its second weekend,

the sequel remained number one with $25 million

ahead of Poseidon's $22 .2 million. The movie

remained at the top 10 box office for the first

six weeks of its release. Mission Impossible

3 ended its domestic run with 134 million. It

was the second movie in 2006 to pass the 100

million mark in the box office. The first was

Ice Age The Meltdown. Oh, God. Ouch. Talk about

bad comparisons. Holy crap. Ouch. I wonder if,

I don't know if it was the six years in between

or what it was, but I didn't, I didn't think

the buzz was that big for the third movie. Even

though the second one was, second was the highest

grossing of the three. It just, the buzz wasn't

there, so I don't know. Well yeah, and that goes,

the 134 million domestic run was significantly

lower than that of Mission Impossible 2, and

below most, analysts' expectations. Outside of

the USA, the sequel grossed $70 million for the

first five days. In some Asian countries, Mission

Impossible 3 opened two days ahead of its North

American release date and was easily the box

office champion in many countries. As of February

11, 2007, Mission Impossible 3's international

box office gross has reached $263 .8 million

for a combined worldwide gross of $397 .9 million.

the lowest so far of the series you know again

you know it just goes to show you as we've said

pretty much throughout the entire review of the

third film how different it was and i don't know

i did there are some good points and there are

some bad points about it um... they're just we

too many critical reviews to go through. I'm

just gonna read the top one here. Mission Impossible

3 received mostly positive review from the critics.

The film currently holds a 70 % Quote -unquote

fresh rating at rotten tomatoes calm the best

rating of the trilogy Wow, it's quote -unquote

cream of the crop rating is 62 % between the

other two It holds similar rating on Metacritic

at a score of 66 out of a hundred Mission Impossible

3 is presently the highest rated Mission Impossible

film at the internet movie database word is rated

six point nine out of ten Boy, what are they

smoking? I have no idea. I don't know either.

There was a soundtrack, Mission Impossible 3

soundtrack, which I have no information on. I

really did not get, I really didn't notice any

outside of the theme. Which I think was redone

by the guy that did the Michael crap. What's

his last name? I'm probably gonna butcher Guachino

or I don't know Michael somebody who did the

alias music music alias Okay, which I I heard

throughout the phone, but I didn't really hear

any like differentiating music Like we did in

in mission to I don't remember it, and this is

actually the last one I saw, and that tells you

something that I remember the music from the

other two, but not this one, so. Yeah, I know.

As far as sequels go, when asked on the Oprah

Winfrey Show about returning to the franchise,

Tom Cruise's response was that it was possible

that he will return for another film, although

Summer Redstone has stated that it would be up

to Brad Grey, who runs Paramount, to decide.

While in Japan for the premiere of Valkyrie,

he appeared on smap, smap, whoop, whoop, as weird.

Crews' response to the question of whether there

would be a sequel was that they are currently

writing the script, also thinking about how they

would include downtown Tokyo in the plot. In

June 2009, Crews announced that Mission Impossible

3 director JJ Abrams will be a producer of the

film. A mobile phone video game based on the

movie was released by Gameloft. You know, I...

I don't know if there is a sequel cool it if

it's as good as As far as if there's a fourth

film if it's is, you know got a lot of good action

stunts sure I'll probably go see it I think we

are going to go out to break and we're gonna

come back with the Closing so we'll be right

back that look in your eyes a pain in my ass.

You know that right? We are back and we're going

to do some final thoughts on the Mission Impossible

film franchise. I like the franchise as a whole,

while I think the third film is probably the

worst. It did have some cool action, it did have

some funny moments. I think the funniest moment

is when Luther asks Ethan a question. Ethan just

gives him a look. He goes, that look in your

eye is a theta by ass. I thought that was really,

really funny. Just overall rating each film,

I would give the first film probably 9 out of

10. I would give the second film a 10 out of

10. And then the third film, I'd probably give

a 4 out of 10. Oh, big drop. Jeez. Only because

of the way that... I would give the action sequences

a 9, but as far as the overall story and the

way it played out, I don't know. I just didn't

really like it. Yeah. like it that much. What

about you, overall thoughts on the franchise?

Overall, like if you would ask me what's my favorite

trilogy, I don't even think, I don't think Mission

Impossible will come up. I think, I would consider

this two great movies and then I ignore the third

one's existence to be honest. So I'd say the

first one I'd probably give, I'd give the first

one an eight out of ten. I'd probably go nine.

0 .275 on the second one I give it a 9 easy and

then the third one I'm gonna go I'm gonna go

for as well Yeah, so yes, it was Like I said,

there's just something hollow about there's a

missing element and and I wish Simon Pegg could

have been the fix for that But he couldn't he

couldn't carry that much. So It just wasn't it

just wasn't up to par. So yeah, thank God Sorry,

JJ. Well, thank god JJ's version of Star Trek

was much better. Yeah, I mean the guy is a genius

and I just don't know why he couldn't pull off

something better than he did with the third one,

so. Yeah, and again, I think it actually takes

you away from the franchise as far as I don't

even put them together So I know JJ needs a do

-over. He needs a mulligan here. So Scrap that

one redo it try it again All right So we're going

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