Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to listen to Pete and Trevor travel to see Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, the eighth and potentially last instalment in the MI franchise. Christopher McQuarrie is back with Tom Cruise to single-handedly save stunt work and the movies and the world.

Listen to the episode for our immediate spoiler-free reactions to the movie before heading into spoiler-talk.

This is also the fourth week for our ongoing Project Superman, wherein we watch every single live-action theatrical Superman movie. This week we discuss Superman III, directed by Richard Lester, starring Christoper Reeve (Clark Kent), Margot Kidder (Lois Lane), Richard Pryor (Gus Gorman) and Annette O’Toole (Lana Lang).

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Intro, history with Mission: Impossible and recap of Dead Reckoning (0:00)

Review of Superman III (24:00)

Spoiler free review of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (42:12)

Spoiler-talk (51:40)

About the Movie:

Ethan Hunt and the IMF team race against time to stop a rogue artificial intelligence known as “The Entity” from falling into the wrong hands and reshaping global power. As loyalties are tested and old enemies return, Ethan faces his most personal and perilous mission yet.

Main Cast

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt

Hayley Atwell as Grace

Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell

Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn

Esai Morales as Gabriel

Pom Klementieff as Paris

Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge

Angela Bassett as Erika Sloane

Crew

Director: Christopher McQuarrie

Producers: Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, Jake Myers

Writers: Christopher McQuarrie, Erik Jendresen

Cinematographer: Fraser Taggart

Editor: Eddie Hamilton

Composer: Lorne Balfe

Production Designer: Gary Freeman

Costume Designer: Jill Taylor

Visual Effects Supervisor: Alex Wuttke

Stunt Coordinator: Wade Eastwood

Casting Director: Lucy Bevan