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Speaker 3: It's Later with Mo Kelly on k IF. I am
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Speaker 3: This is the Runner Report. This part of the show
Speaker 3: isn't the best of it's live. I'm mostly alive. Foosh
Speaker 3: is here with me because thank you for that. Because
Speaker 3: Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning is out for the big
Speaker 3: holiday weekend and you need to know the score.
Speaker 4: Here's a little bit of the trailer. Lives I'm not
Speaker 4: defined by any one action. Our lives of the sum
Speaker 4: of our.
Speaker 2: Choices, everything you are, everything you've done.
Speaker 4: Let's come to this when the need for certainty.
Speaker 2: Is absolute and the odds are deemed impossible, the mission
Speaker 2: falls to him.
Speaker 3: Yes it does. That's all We're going to play that
Speaker 3: because there's a lot of running. It's a largely visual
Speaker 3: trailer in radio not so much a visual medium. Now listen.
Speaker 3: You almost can't review Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning like
Speaker 3: a normal movie. It's too much of a huge event,
Speaker 3: with too much of a huge Star that maybe only
Speaker 3: years down the line are we're going to be able
Speaker 3: to take a real critical look at it and see
Speaker 3: how much it holds up. But let's just come clean here.
Speaker 3: There's movies that we were into in the moment, but
Speaker 3: we're kind of embarrassed of now.
Speaker 4: Foosh, I'll admit this.
Speaker 3: I think I have a positive review of at least
Speaker 3: one of the Star Wars prequels. I'm a little embarrassed
Speaker 3: of now, maybe all of them. In fact, we were
Speaker 3: just so happy to have new Star Wars and we
Speaker 3: were in an audience and there was air conditioning, and
Speaker 3: I don't want to talk about it anymore. Or that
Speaker 3: Ben Affleck Daredevil movie. I said, I don't want to
Speaker 3: talk about it anyway. Right now, I'll say you'd have
Speaker 3: to be kind of an a hole to look down
Speaker 3: your nose at Mission Impossible, the Final Reckoning. It's a
Speaker 3: huge amount of fun. It's far from perfect, but the
Speaker 3: fun parts are such massive cinema crazy spectacle that you're
Speaker 3: just gonna see it. Okay, you have to, but you'd
Speaker 3: be forgiven if you didn't like the first few in
Speaker 3: the series. And we can argue about this if there's time.
Speaker 3: Greg Morris if you remember him from the original Mission
Speaker 3: Impossible TV show. He walked out of the first one
Speaker 3: of the movies and called it an abomination. He was right,
Speaker 3: especially if you loved that TV show making mister phelps
Speaker 3: the bad guy go straight to hell with that. The
Speaker 3: TV show ran for seven seasons and it was based
Speaker 3: on a French caper movie called Top Copy Topkapi. It's
Speaker 3: really good. It was tense without much dialogue, and the
Speaker 3: Mission Impossible TV series had a lot of this aesthetic
Speaker 3: as Star Trek, and they were both made by Desi
Speaker 3: lou That's right, Lucy gave us both Mission Impossible and
Speaker 3: Star Trek. The second movie was much good either. The
Speaker 3: third one that kind of sucked to They started getting
Speaker 3: good around maybe the fifth one. You just had to
Speaker 3: accept that it wasn't going to be like the show
Speaker 3: and it was going to be more a series of
Speaker 3: extreme stunts strung together with some exposition. So by the
Speaker 3: time of the one where Tom Cruise is swinging around
Speaker 3: the skyscraper and the Middle East and hanging on to
Speaker 3: the side of a plane, they'd gotten a lot better.
Speaker 3: They also show Cruse has no fear of heights, and
Speaker 3: this new one really confirms that.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: By the way, another reason the early Mission Impossible movie
Speaker 3: sucked is a reason they should have been great, and
Speaker 3: credit to Cruz for at least taking a stab at this.
Speaker 3: They wanted each Mission Impossible movie to be from a
Speaker 3: different distinctive director in his style, So we got one
Speaker 3: from De Palma, from John wu from jj Abrams, which
Speaker 3: would make a good one of those One of these
Speaker 3: things is not like the other in Sesame Street, you
Speaker 3: remember that. Then Chris from a Quarry took over and
Speaker 3: he's been the director since Rogue Nation. In twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3: He worked with Cruz on The Reacher movie, which we
Speaker 3: all sort of disavow now because of the Alan Richson series.
Speaker 3: And he also did a good little crime movie called
Speaker 3: The Way of the Gun. Put that on your list
Speaker 3: if you haven't seen it. Mission Impossible the Final Reckoning.
Speaker 3: The first part was Dead Reckoning that came out two
Speaker 3: years ago. I'll tell you how much you really need
Speaker 3: to know before you see this new one.
Speaker 4: Nothing.
Speaker 3: If you go through them all from the first one
Speaker 3: like Mo did, then that's fine. You're in a masochism.
Speaker 3: Doesn't hurt anybody else. Go to town. But there are
Speaker 3: plenty of references to the early movies in this one,
Speaker 3: and some good and not so good attempts to tie
Speaker 3: them all together, which reminded me of the clumsy way
Speaker 3: they tried to do that in the awful Last Couple
Speaker 3: Daniel Craig James Bond movies Now Dead. Reckoning involved a
Speaker 3: world threatening artificial intelligence called the Entity, and in part
Speaker 3: two they're trying to stop the Entity from destroying the
Speaker 3: world and really playing up Ethan Hunt as the savior,
Speaker 3: which you kind of heard a little bit of in
Speaker 3: the trailer that sets off my cheese zoemeter. But like
Speaker 3: I said, the movie's not perfect. In fact, the first
Speaker 3: act is so talky and portentous and irritating that I
Speaker 3: was surprised it survived in the finished movie. Some tedious,
Speaker 3: clumsy stuff. That's when you go to the bathroom. We
Speaker 3: got to the theater for a twelve to fifty five
Speaker 3: am show and we were there until well after four am.
Speaker 3: Good lord, that's because we're dedicated. Final Reckoning features a
Speaker 3: minor character from the very first movie, and I won't
Speaker 3: spoil that, but what a cool jackpot to bring this
Speaker 3: guy back and give him a major role. I hope
Speaker 3: it gives him a career boost. There is a callback
Speaker 3: to that mister Phelps is the bad guy thing, which
Speaker 3: again I hated, and the callback's unnecessary. But by that
Speaker 3: time in the movie that reveal you just need a
Speaker 3: cigarette and you're not going to care. What else do
Speaker 3: you want to tell me? It was actually missus Phelps
Speaker 3: all along? Go ahead, Now, there are a couple of
Speaker 3: major sequences that even if you hate everything else, these
Speaker 3: are going to make you feel like you're at a
Speaker 3: Capital M movie.
Speaker 4: You've seen some.
Speaker 3: Highlights and trailers of crews on a plane and other things,
Speaker 3: and those have been playing for a long time, but
Speaker 3: I promise you haven't seen anything close to all of it.
Speaker 3: I was cackling a couple times. I almost grabbed Twala's arm.
Speaker 3: I think I clapped like a carnival seal a couple
Speaker 3: times too. Oh, it's so much fun. The villain is
Speaker 3: played by Issai Morales, and it's pretty unmemorable as a villain,
Speaker 3: but he does look like he's having a good time.
Speaker 3: In his defense, they don't really give him much to
Speaker 3: do in this movie except to be a delivery device
Speaker 3: for some of the action. They go big in Final Reckoning,
Speaker 3: they got to save the world. I don't know how
Speaker 3: final this one really is for the series. If there
Speaker 3: are anymore, I wouldn't mind him going a little smaller
Speaker 3: like the old TV show Go to some completely made
Speaker 3: up little South American dictatorship where it's all white American
Speaker 3: actors in whatever kind of makeup American presidents use these
Speaker 3: days in a constant sheen of sweat. Those are on
Speaker 3: Paramount Plus now you can watch them top copy the
Speaker 3: movie that they were inspired by that's on Amazon Prime.
Speaker 3: They aren't full of extreme stunts at all, but they
Speaker 3: are great fun. They're tense, and they're good to watch
Speaker 3: if you want more. When you finally stagger out of
Speaker 3: the Final Reckoning and use the bathroom after about three hours, okay,
Speaker 3: now foosh, unless you have something to add. This is
Speaker 3: where MO would usually throw back to me for a
Speaker 3: news break.
Speaker 5: I was just going to ask, so, okay, you don't
Speaker 5: have to watch a lot of or you don't have
Speaker 5: to watch the other ones, but what about watching the
Speaker 5: what is it Dead Reckoning?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think at the beginning they were going to call
Speaker 3: this one Dead Reckoning Part two, but they changed it
Speaker 3: to Final Reckoning, so we don't know if it's the
Speaker 3: end of.
Speaker 4: The series or what, you can watch it.
Speaker 3: But if you don't watch it, it's not going to
Speaker 3: affect at all how you understand the plot or appreciate
Speaker 3: all all the set pieces. If you're a completist whatever
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know what your tastes in movies
Speaker 3: are because you and I argue off the air about
Speaker 3: you know, once upon a Time in Hollywood and whatever else,
Speaker 3: and to the point where we doubt each other's sanity.
Speaker 3: But any spy action movie, I'm going to watch it.
Speaker 3: So it's the final question is was there post credit scene?
Speaker 4: There is not a post credit scene. It's not a
Speaker 4: Marvel movie.
Speaker 3: And then Twala and I actually made sure to stay
Speaker 3: even though we're like holding up our phones to each other.
Speaker 3: It's after four am. We stayed just to make sure
Speaker 3: that's nothing.
Speaker 5: There's nothing there.
Speaker 3: All right now, Foosh, this is now your mission. Should
Speaker 3: you choose to accept it, go ahead and throw to
Speaker 3: me for a news break.
Speaker 5: All right, let's go right back to Mark Rondo the
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Speaker 4: Well done.
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