Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show I'm your host Paul and this video we're breaking down
Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1. Your Mission if you choose to accept it is
to come with us as we talk about the movie and it's ending. Part 2 is due to release
on the 28th of June 2024 and we actually know a fair bit about it.
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Now one thing that the trailers didn't give away is that the villain in this movie is
actually AI. Not only is Ethan going rogue every 25 minutes but the AI is now too and
this sentient tech is down to become the next Skynet and take over everything. Able to dish
out misinformation in a second it can control the truth and it's something that could bring
an end to everything we know. I don't really get the feeling that it wants to destroy humanity
and instead it wants to control us in a way that it becomes a god to us. It's been through
every security system, social media app and your grandmas mobile and now it has it's presence
in everything.
If you've ever seen Westworld Season 3 then I'm sure you'll instantly recognise the similarities
and it shares beyond just the control aspect that was part of the AI in that. Rehoboam
was also capable of doing complex calculations through the use of an algorithm and this allowed
it to predict human behaviour. This is something the Entity can do too and it uses it's agent
Gabriel to carry out missions for it. I couldn't help thinking this was a nod to the Angel
of the same name and with the machine being like a God they clearly picked that name for
a reason. Erasing all footage of him in real time he's remained a ghost but he actually
has ties to Ethans past.
When they were younger Gabriel murdered one of Ethans friends/girlfriends in front of
him and it gives Ethan a big vendetta against this foe. It's basicaly like fast and the
furious if fast and the furious wasn't s**t.
Now as for the AI you might be a bit confused about how the film starts off due to everyone
switching sides and the exposition being heavier than the spoilers on this channel.
So the movie begins with a russian submarine known as the Sevastopol carrying out tests
on it's experimental stealth technology.
An enemy submarine seemingly appears on it's system and the crew fire at it after believing
that it's shot first. However that was a f**king lie and it turns out that the Entity has just
been manipulating the computer systems on board to make the sub fire on itself.
Later on we meet the head of national intelligence played by Cary Elwes who I still hate because
of Liar Liar. Anyway he's replaced Angela Basset but we do see her photo hanging up
in the office.
Anyway we later learn the truth about what happened on the sub and it turns out that
an early version of the entity was injected into the sub. From what I could gather it
was just meant to sabotage it's stealth capabilities but it went rogue and took it down. You see
the Ai was originally just supposed to get into the system, carry out it's trojan horse
and then erase all traces of itself after it's mission was over. Its sentience stopped
it from doing this though and instead it's destroyed humanities chance of getting to
it by blowing up the sub it's on so that it's near impossible to find. There are other versions
of it out there on the internet but as long as this core is intact it'll never be able
to be fully destroyed.
Those on the submarine had a key that contained access to the drive in which it was located
and this was accessed through two cross keys that when combined allow the user to open
it up.
When the sub was destroyed the bodies of the crew floated up to the surface and both keys
were retrieved and then moved about the black market. Everyone wants their hands on them
and this is so they can access this version of the entity which still exists in the computer
hard drive. Whoever gets to this first can either control the entity or they can destroy
the movie centres around everyone trying to get the keys.
Now this of course includes Ethan Hunt who's once more heading up an IMF team alongside
Luther, Benji and eventually Ilsa. After tracking one half of the key to an airport he comes
across a thief named Grace whos played by Haylee Atwell. She completely steals the show
and basically becomes a bit like how Nolan handled Catwoman. She's got a long wrap sheet
and is sort of in over her head, working for people who don't care if she lives or dies.
That's where Ethan comes in anyway and together he and the team attempt to track the key down.
It leads to some major action scenes and lots of back and forth with Grace.
I think I'd be remissed for not pointing out the video game influences in the film and
it's clearly riffing on things shown in both the metal gear and uncharted series. The movies
opening is akin to the opening of the spy who loved me and there's lots of callbacks
to earlier moments in the franchise too. Ethan is constnatly doing sleight of hand tricks
with the keys which is something that he also did throughout the first film. On top of this
Max's daughter Alanna returns and Kittridge is back as well. The third act is basically
a replay of the third act of the first movie with a deal going down on a train involing
Alanna, Kittridge, Ethan and so on.
Now Ethan is also hunted by agents of a group known as the community who we see early on
is the heads of several different US agencies. Led by Shae Whigham he's desperate to track
Ethan down but like the old cliche, he kinda sees that he's not really the bad guy here.
Now all this death defying stuff does come with it's downsides as Ilsa is sadly killed
by Gabrielle at one point. I did feel like this fell a bit flat and was kinda hoping
we'd get more anger from Ethan but he kinda brushes it to the side cos mans got a new
girl now. Just a shame as Ilsa was someone who I think really helped revitalise the franchise
but Ethan isn't really that affected by it in my opinion.
He actually probably couldve saved her but unfortunately he was stopped by Gabriels right
hand Paris. Played by Pom Klementieff she ends up saving him due to the character sparing
his life. Now this is important as it seems like she may die at the end but we know from
the news on part two that that isn't the case. Pom will be back come the next film and my
guess is that she's gonna end up working alongside Ethan.
Anyway everything leads to a deal going down on the Orient Express with all sides attempting
to get their hands on the key. Remorseful that Ilsa died for her, Grace works with the
IMF and she goes on the train disguised as Alanna. She knocks her out and goes to the
deal with Kittridge whilst Gabriel destroys the breaks and also kills Denlinger.
He actually proposed an alliance with himself and the unity as it would give the US unlimited
power. However due to only him knowing whats actually on the console, Gabriel kills him
so the info can't get out.
Now
if youve seen Westworld Season 3 then you'll know a big twist in that is that Serac isn't
so much working with Rehoboam. I am gonna spoil that to talk about what I thinks happening
with Gabriel so if you don't wanna know then please skip ahead about 30 seconds....aight.
So in Westworld Season 3 though it seems like Serac is working alongside the AI that's not
really the case. What's actually going on is that he has an earpiece with a direct link
to the AI and this somewhat uses him like a puppet. With it's algorithm and calculations
it instantly works out whats going on in every single situation and it plans ahead a route
to navigate it. It then feeds to Serac exactly what he should do and say which I think is
something happening with Gabriel too. For example he seems to know out the blue whats
gonna happen with Paris and he also rattles off things to Grace in the moment. He'd only
be able to do this if he had a direct link up to it and this is why I think that that
is whats going on with him.
Now after crash landing onto the train and saving Grace, Ethans saving Grace is that
he manages to get the keys from Gabriel. Fighting him on top of the train he steals both keys
back.
The rides not over yet though and Gabriel manages to escape the train before blowing
a bridge further down the track. He instructs Shea and his guy to evacuate the people and
move them further down whilst he and Grace will try and stop the train. This fails though
and the front end ends up going off the edge.
Dangling off the edge we get a brilliant scene in with Ethan and Grace climb up as it slowly
falls off and this is when hes saved by Paris.
She tells him about the Sevastapol and Ethan ends up jumping off train with the parachute
escape that was planted for him on it. Now at this point Kittridge arrives which is when
Grace tells him that she's wants to accept a position in the IMF. We dont learn too much
about Ethans past but it is made clear that before joining he was a bit of a...bit of
a rogue.
Now we know he was offered something similar and accepting this means that they'll always
work for the powers that be but they'll get to have a life.
Either way Ethan is now out on the road again and he's gonna be making his way to the Sevastepol
whilst everyone else tries to get there too. Now as for whats on the actual sevastepol
itself I have my own theory times, theory times, theory times.
So weirdly even after they reveal what it is we still have some kind of mystery surrounding
it. I feel like it might not be purely as it seems and instead I think that there may
be more to it. Last night me and the team were throwing out all kinds of theories and
we said stuff like it might have the NOC list, the cheat to turn Lara Croft naked on playstation
1 tomb raider, Tom Crusies Anti-Aging Regime and stuff people would desperately want. Doubt
its the NOC list but this discussion led us to talk more about Westworld and with it being
so similar it could be the same as that. In the show Rehoboam used its algorithm to control
everyone on earth and it created social security scores and predictions for how everyone on
the planet would live their lives. Due to it having indepth nowledge of how they would
act in certain ways it kept people in certain jobs, stopped others having children and basically
ran everything. Though I know the main focus on the entity is it controlling news I think
it could potentially control everyone on earth.
I think this ties into the title itself and though the phrase Dead Reckoning has its own
meanings it could go beyond the face value. Now in sea terms this is a phrase one uses
to calculate their position and they do it by distance travelled due to there not being
any landmarks around them.
This is why the submarine captain says it at the start.
ah he said it
However it also means an inevitable course which I feel isnt just applicable for Ethan
but it's also applicable for humanity. If the Entity gets out it could infect every
single system and set a course for every human on the planet. This would mean that we were
complete slaves to it and unable to advance beyond the path that the machine had laid
out for us. Might not be true but ey...its just a theory time...theory time...theory
time...you went full on rogue...never go full on rogue.
Now as for Dead Reckoning Part Two there's actually some things that we know are gonna
be happening in the film.
Originally these two movies were billed as being send offs to Ethan Hunt however things
have obviously changed behind the scenes as we now know that's no longer the case.
Director Christopher McQuarrie had an interview with Fandango where he clarified that things
had changed. Instead of just doing these final two parts he said that they were developing
ideas for future installments so it's unlikely that this is gonna be the end.
There's also the fact that Tom Cruise has been doing the press tour for the movie and
inevitably the Indiana Jones films were also brought up as well. With Cruise now being
61 people asked if he thought he'd be still doing it in his 80s and he said he'd love
to still be playing Ethan 20 years from now.
More like Making it to the Bathroom, impossible.
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Now the WGA writers strike could potentially impact the movie and we know that they are
cureently still filming. However the cast and creative team are doing the press tours
at the moment so hopefully by the time that's finished the writers and studios will have
come to an agreement. When discussing how far into the production process they were
McQuarrie said:
"We've shot all but one of our international locations. We've shot our big action except
for the biggest set piece, the central set piece of the film, which is massive and unlike
anything we've done, and, I think, unlike anything you've seen."
Now we know that at least one of the stunts in the film features Cruise flying a Bi-Plane
which ends upside down. When promoting Part One Cruise did a promotional video from their
filming of this moment where....oooo careful tom, careful, you'll hurt yourself.
From other shots we've seen of this scene Ethans gonna be hanging upside down on the
plane and flying alongside another. Both of these are actually from the World War 2 era
and I think this has been chosen because there's no computers in the system. Make sense to
use older vehicles that can't be hacked and yeah that's why i'm guessing it's here.
Now as for my thoughts on the movie I kinda went into this really trepidations due to
how 2023 has been. There’s been a lot of movies that have been hyped up so much and
they’ve let me down that I didn’t want to go in with crazy expectations even with
it’s high critic scores.
However I’m happy to say I loved it and this was an incredible feat that though a
little long still delivered on every level for me. As always the action is next level
in these things but they’ve mastered it in every single aspect. The car rides, fights
and general spy espionage stuff are all top drawer leading to this being one of the best
movies of 2023.
Tom Cruise continues his incredible run as Ethan hunt doing his incredible runs and it’s
crazy to think that the guys 61.
At a time when he should be winding down he’s getting better and better and he continues
to put his heart and soul into this stuff.
That’s really what I respect the guy for and if you watch him in any interviews or
check out his social media you can tell he loves film. Guy will go see every movie there
is and I can’t think of someone who puts the amount of effort into movies that he does.
He seems so grateful that people will go out and watch these movies in a time we don’t
have to and he should be applauded for how much he wants to make the movies the best
that they can be.
In a year where you have Indy, John Wick and Extraction returning Tom leads the pack here.
Not once does this feel phoned in or like they’ve just done it on the cheap and everything
about this movie is the best that it could be.
Watching it in IMAX blew me away and the score, scale and general feel of the film was breathtaking.
Now though it’s Toms movie I also think that the supporting cast delivered as well.
I’ve been a big Hayley atwell fan since the first Captain america and I think she
really shines here. She can be vulnerable, cocky and also the voice of the audience in
what could’ve potentially just been a cookie cutter character.
I know that when there’s a strong female character in a film that you’re gonna get
people who complain but I really think Hayley delivers the best we’ve had in the series
so far.
Where id fault the film is minor things like the heavy use of exposition at points and
there are some scenes where they’re delivering information I think that audiences are smart
enough to pick up on the go in the scene. So we didn’t really need someone telling
us things before it happened and removing this would’ve probably helped with the run
time.
I also think the film kinda gets lost in itself at points with most of the characters swapping
sides throughout to the point I had no idea who was who and what team they were on.
Unfortunately I felt Ilsas death didn’t quite hit home as much as it could and I think
it was slightly lessened by the fake out she had at the start of the movie. Stages one
of my favourite characters in the franchise and I just wish it hadve hit a little bit
more.
Still though this was a master class in how to make an action movie and in times when
films are falling flat Tom cruise makes it clear why we should still go to the cinema.
It's kinda weird cos the Flash and Across the Spider-verse had lots of similar elements
and this and indiana jones do too. You have a quirky british brunette sidekick, two halves
of a macguffin that need to be put together and a big scene on an old timely train that
leads to a bridge being blown.
With The Flash I feel like Across the spiderverse sucked all the wind out the room and did it
better before DC had a chance to. Here though I feel its the opposite with Tom out doing
that movie in every single way.
Guy completely killed it and I think this is gonna be the runaway hit of the year. It
deserves it too and all my nitpicks a side I had a really great. Time with the film.
I’m hyped to see what’s next and it scores a 9/10
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