Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning is Not Very Good

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A dual custody lock is primarily secured by needing both the XO's and captain's keys to operate, and not the added difficulty of needing literally any co-conspirator to operate the second key out of arm's reach after you steal the second key. That part is fine. What is dumb is that a split key requires the XO to forfeit custody of their key half to the captain (or vice versa) to open the door, instead of just having two tumblers side by side. This creates an opportunity for the captain to return a fake key, keeping both halves for himself without the XO's knowledge. Also: it's a really dumb mistake for the prop to have four identical bittings on the key. It removes the problem of the cruciform split key having eight different orientations, seven of which might be incorrect, but it also means you can use the captain's key to create a forgery of the XO's key or vice versa, defeating the whole point of a dual custody lock.

Additionally with the bodies, they would not float. They do this once the bacteria in the gut produces enough gas to raise the corpse. This happens over time not immediately. As well, in extremely cold water the bacteria cannot reproduce and make the needed gas, example would be lake superior in north America, they wrote a song about it for the sinking of the Edmond Fitzgerald

If the bad guys need both keys to enact the evil plan, why not just destroy one key when you are in possession of it?

40:19 The writers missed a perfect opportunity to have the questions be like: "What is your mother's maiden name?" "What is the name of your first pet?" "What is your favorite color?" "What is your social security number?"

What if the Entity wants you to believe this movie is shit?

Grace’s and Elsa’s decision to fight Gabriel was the part where I broke up with this film. What a waste. Her failure to use a sword with its full length, all the spins and getting as close as possible was just so unbelievable.

Mission: Impossible - Fallout is my favourite movie of all time. I adore that movie and know it like the back of my hand. Dead Reckoning is the most disappointed I have ever been after walking out of a theatre. It is an abysmal sequel in almost every conceivable way. Not only is it worse than Fallout, it is antithetical to it. Quite frankly it disrespects so much of what Fallout exceptional. This is a hot take (and it really shouldn't be)... it's the TLJ of the MI series. Tom Cruise and Christopher seem like they mean well. But they did not make this movie for MI fans. At least definitely not for Fallout fans. Side note: Fallout is the best MI. And it's not close. It's substantially better than the rest.

My biggest problem with it is that they killed off Ferguson who has charisma up the wazoo to replace her with whatsherface with zero charisma

The fact they recruite Grace, such an awefull person, is the biggest farce of the movie. She pretty much just replaces Ilsa as Ethans new love interest/ woman to protect.

I think you may have missed a key bit of info. The Entity that's on the Sevastopol is an early form and the source code of it. It's later stated that they need to get the source code to combat the 'evolved' form of the Entity that is now on the internet. Presumably it sunk the Sevastopol to hide its own source code since it wasn't connected to the internet and that would be its only weakness.

In anticipation of this movie, I rewatch Fallout since that was a banger. I then watched this movie. I liked the Russian submarine scene, then the movie happened…. Glad I didn’t watch it in the cinema, but I still feel ripped of.

“Wanna go watch Mission Impossible?” “Meh, nah.” “Wanna watch RFT review of Mission Impossible?” “Lemme grab some popcorn.”

Gabriel tells everyone he will get both keys tomorrow in the orient express, and widow still proceeds to hold the meeting in the orient express, where the evil dude said he will be at.

It really felt like Ilsa was going to join the team after Fallout which I would’ve loved. She had an extremely strong character and was phenomenal with the group. Honestly the most upset I was at the film was how it discarded her and all her potential 🤦🏻‍♂️

One of the things that came to my mind most often during the movie was "Ok, that's enough." It felt like they couldn't get enough of their own scenes and just kept going. The car chase is the most vivid in my memory, because it went from: "that's kinda funny," through: "This is sorta unusual" and "I don't buy this anymore," to "please fucking end already." Not even Hayley Atwell's involvement, which shuts down my rational thinking and activates the most primal parts of my brain, could distract me from how awful it was.

It was such a bad idea to do the all-seeing AI. It immediately takes me out because it makes the story impossible to believe. It's the Ultron problem. You've created something so powerful that it can not be beaten yet somehow will be beaten. Honestly, in hindsight, they should've kept John Lark alive. If they insisted on doing the evil AI, they could've used a character that we actually know to be the face of the AI instead of just making someone up with a completely new backstory to Ethan.

Had no idea others felt the same about this film. I thought it was just me getting old or something - but nah. Was just bored. Hopefully they wrap it up nicely. The franchise deserves a good send off.

Sounds to me like someone read the cliffnotes on "Person of Interest" and huffed on the glue they used to paste this movie's script together.

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