For their 211th episode, two mask-pulling film critics, two special agent dads, and two stuntman teachers, Will Johnson and Don Shanahan, finish their four-episode retrospective covering the Mission: Impossible franchise. With exhaustion and indifference to AI, our guys put a bow on Mission: Impossible- Dead Reckoning Part One, Mission: Impossible- Final Reckoning, and the dominant Ethan Hunt chapter of Tom Cruise’s career.
Read MoreFrom “living manifestation of destiny” to “mind-reading, shape-shifting incarnation of chaos,” the pedestal positioning of Ethan Hunt—and therefore Tom Cruise—playing him has only gotten taller and taller, much like the heights the actor scales with his stunts. Here, at the announced finishing chapter of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning of the now-iconic character enduring nearly thirty years in our cinematic lives, we’ve witnessed the progression of him as a top spy with more lives than a litter of cats to something far more starry and radiant.
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