Mission Impossible the Final Reckoning, this seems more relevant now than ever.

So... Finally after watching all the Mission impossible movies and going to watch "THE FINAL RECKONING" and not being done with the one before this one until quite a bit into this one, was it all worth it in the end?

Yes.

Yes it was.

Now, while I accept that I was distracted in the beginning of this film, because I was focused on my Netflix the part of the movie I missed was mostly Ads, opening Logos and that opening bit of Exposition that caught up everyone with everything that has happened so far in Mission Impossible from one to Dead Reckoning.

For Why?

Because this Final reckoning is actually an endgame level conclusion for the Final destination Franchise.

One thing that is both a pro and a con of this movie, is the fact that it takes itself quite seriously compared to the earlier Mission Impossible Movies, it is a strength because the threat of AI and the threat of Nuclear war is way more present today than it ever was in the past.

And a hyper advanced AI slowly taking control of every country with a Nuclear Arsenal so that it can launch all at once is really fucking real and really fucking scary.

So what other option does the former Director of the CIA and current president of the United States have other than give Ethan Hunt full authority to bring the Entity into control.

And they finally explain the should you choose to accept it part here, since IMF agents are special special forces, and all of their missions are literally considered to be Impossible(hence the name) and in the event of failure these people are disavowed, given the conditions if the field operatives believe that they cannot complete the mission under the given conditions, then they are given the choice to reject it.

I believe this is so that the Govt. can wash their hands off of any potential problems they may face due to any subsequent fallout.

Maybe some Mission Impossible Fallout. See what I did there...?

But my cringey jokes ain't the only connection this film has to the older ones except for reminding us in the beginning that they exist.

Here we finally learn what the Entity actually is and how it is basically Ethan's fault that the Entity even exists in the first place.

Remember Mission Impossible 3?

And the Rabbit's foot?

And how Benji called it the Anti God

And how the entire plot of mission Impossible 3 was Ethan stealing it for the main villain of the movie so he could save his new Wife Nya... I mean Jules.

Yesss

So the Anti God is back, and it's now called "the Entity"

The Anti God thinks its God and that is why its going to kill everyone.

Unless of course, Ethan Hunt has something to say about it.

Ethan quite literally says this time around, yeah ain't got no time for no decompression chamber, me gonna dive into the fucking depths of the ocean to find the code of the Entity.

And so he does.

With an extensively constructed diver suit that helps him descend faster with the help of "classified" gasses as per the submarine crew that he is on.

Why does the Submarine Crew allow him to do this? Because he is Ethan fucking hunt that's why.

Does he succeed?

Well... the submarine starts moving around due to the sudden shifts in weight as Ethan enters it.

And even after Ethan gets the source code of the Entity in a Drive it keeps moving and getting out becomes an issue.

Until he has the brilliant Idea to remove his suit and go through the Torpedo Chute, don't worry though He plans to put it on again, except it get's stuck on the submarine and he has to let go alongside his air supply, and he must rise quickly to the surface or risk death by suffocation.

Or death by decompression sickness.

Here's the thing yeah, the team planned for this, and they are bringing their own decompression chamber to solve this issue.

The question remains though, how does a decompression chamber solve the problem of him not being able to breathe for a long time.... Oh no wait this is a mission impossible movie.

Yeah so what's his team been doing?

Their job is to find Donloe, the guy from Mission impossible one who apparently not only controlled the room in mission impossible one, but also created it.

You know the room that contains the infamous sweat catching scene.

Donloe knew about the Anti-God, and he sanctioned the submarine to go down with this code but the Entity went rogue and killed the people on the submarine, by tricking them into a self Torpedo, why does it do that? To protect it's source code of course.

Or so I think, the movie doesn't really say much on this.

But what has Donloe been upto?

Well firstly he has an Inuit wife, who he wouldn't have met were it not for Ethan Hunt's break in in Mission impossible and he has a Russian army troop on him who want him to give him the location directly but the Russians want to control the Entity just like the Americans.

The Entity knows that people will fight amongst each other and it uses that against them.

The only way to stop the Entity currently is to use something called the poison pill on the drive containing it's source code, made by the one and only Luther, who is dead... wait what?

Well okay Luther, but that doesn't help me with my sadness yeah.

Yes, after being bed ridden due to an earlier event, Luther is attacked by Gabriel and he takes the Poison Pill meanwhile, he sets up a bomb that has only one disarming method.

You either don't disarm it and let it go Nuclear, or you remove one of the set up charges and set off a smaller but surely Lethal explosion.

Ethan Survives this with his intense power of running, but Luther Dies.

Sad.

Gabriel plans this so that Luther can't make another Poison pill, giving him Leverage.

And so now we have the finale where Ethan plans to let Gabriel take the drive but Kittridge ruins everything by arriving and asking Ethan to explain everything, all the while there is a live Nuclear Bomb there which must be disarmed in a similar way.

Damn... so who will die?

NO TIME!!!

TIME FOR THE FINALE BABY!!!!

Erika Sloane, the new president is advised by those around her to Bomb all Nuclear Arsenals that are not theirs taking away the Entity's ability to do what it wants and as a show of good faith they will bomb one of their own cities as well.

The time isn't over yet, because Kittridge is an idiot and Ethan must to a plane stunt to get the poison Pill from Gabriel and causing him to undergo a death that can rival Final Destination.

Is it any coincidence that Final destination came just two days before this? I mean Mission impossible is in a sense the Anti-Final Destination no?

There people die in ways that no one could have thought of, and here people survive things that will kill people a million times over.

But all of this is for naught if Erika Bombs everyone.

And finally Erika plans to see sense and cause total power down, locking the Entity out of their system and leaving them defenseless as a show of Faith.

And finally as any scene with Nuclear Disarmament chosen by a President we must have a military underling planning to kill the President because of course it must.

This act of Stupidity kills this guy and a General who takes the bullet instead and gives the Entity enough time to get into the American Nuclear Arsenal.

The whole fate of the world is now in the hands of Grace who is listening how to lead the entity into a trap from a loosing consciousness Benji.

And an Ethan who is falling off without a parachute.

But obviously they all succeed and the Entity is trapped.

As a final heart string pull Luther left Ethan a final message in the Poison pill, revealing that he knew he would die.

And then the message self destructs in five seconds making it so, no one can control the Entity.

We had the last scene of William Bludworth played by Tony Todd in Final Destination Bloodlines, and now we have another long standing Black Character dying off, coincidence? Yeah I think so.

And that is the Final Reckoning, is it the final movie?

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