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00:00 Welcome back to New Rock Stars.
00:01 I'm Eric Voss, and this is a breakdown
00:02 of "Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One,"
00:05 the seventh installment of what I consider to be
00:07 the most consistently good Hollywood franchise.
00:09 And now Tom Cruise takes the impossible mission
00:11 of getting audiences to go to cinemas
00:13 and forget that this was the movie he yelled at a crew
00:15 for breaking COVID protocol.
00:16 - We are not shutting this (beep) movie down!
00:19 - But hey, I had fun watching this,
00:20 and I'm gonna break down some great details
00:23 and callbacks to the past films that you might've missed.
00:25 The film opens on the Russian submarine, the Sevastopol,
00:27 as we hear Russian voices transitioning into English,
00:30 a translation convention for movies
00:32 that we also saw in the Russian sub-espionage film,
00:34 "The Hunt for Red October."
00:35 The two halves of the key come together
00:37 to unlock the vault containing the server for the computer
00:40 that contains the source code for the evil MacGuffin
00:41 of this movie, the Entity,
00:43 an AI that can corrupt any computer network
00:45 and manipulate the very nature of reality.
00:47 The fact that the key halves form the cruciform shape
00:50 is just really appropriate,
00:51 because it's a Christian symbol
00:52 unlocking a soulless god tech.
00:54 The Russian says, "The active learning defense system
00:57 "we are testing is operating flawlessly,"
00:59 or one might say, "Miraculously."
01:01 The fact that all this could come from some divine source
01:04 reminds us how in "Mission Impossible III"
01:06 they imbued the MacGuffin as a kind of god particle.
01:08 It has this mysterious divine force,
01:10 and we don't really know what it does.
01:12 The Russian says that this is "Operation Putkova,"
01:14 which translates to "horseshoe," another good luck token,
01:17 recalling the rabbit's foot from "Mission Impossible III."
01:20 I'm sure the ninth or 10th "Mission Impossible" movie
01:22 is gonna be chasing after the four-leaf clover effect.
01:25 The Russian voice says that they're navigating
01:26 the polar ice cap by "dead reckoning,"
01:29 though one time we hear the phrase in the movie,
01:31 "Dead reckoning" is a term in navigation
01:32 in which you determine the current position
01:34 of a moving object by using a previous position
01:37 and incorporating estimates of speed, heading, and time.
01:39 It is subject to human error,
01:41 and that's why GPS has really rendered it obsolete.
01:43 But in this brave new world of the evil entity,
01:45 dead reckoning is all you have to go by.
01:47 This evil entity tricks the Russians into thinking
01:50 another sub has finally spotted them,
01:52 and they fire on this phantom sub,
01:53 but it's really a ghost in the machine.
01:55 There was no torpedo,
01:56 and instead the only dangerous torpedo
01:57 is the one they fired.
01:58 It loops back on them.
01:59 Kablooey!
02:00 Presumably the entity did this
02:01 because it recognized that here under the Arctic ice
02:04 would be the hardest place for anyone
02:05 to access the original server.
02:07 It looked around and was like,
02:08 "It's cold, it's deep here.
02:09 Here will be my tomb."
02:10 We move on to Amsterdam,
02:11 where the IMF delivery guy meets Ethan,
02:13 who steps out of the shadows
02:14 and tells him the code, IndiaZulu245,
02:16 and Ethan Hunt responds, "BRAVOECHO11,"
02:19 which was the exact same secure code
02:21 that he gave you in the 1996 film
02:22 and came back in 2015's "Rogue Nation."
02:24 So BRAVOECHO11, B-E-1-1.
02:27 When you mirror that and turn it into numbers
02:29 that look like the letters,
02:30 you get 1138, a nod to THX1138,
02:33 the first film of George Lucas,
02:35 who was a very close friend to Brian De Palma.
02:36 Brian De Palma, of course,
02:37 directed that first "Mission Impossible" film,
02:39 and he wrote the "Star Wars" opening crawl.
02:41 Ethan's mission recording recounts his formative moment
02:43 30 years prior, a mission in Madrid,
02:45 in which he witnessed Gabriel, a Cy Morales,
02:47 killing another agent.
02:49 Now, this would have been a few years
02:50 before the events of the 1996 film,
02:51 and our writer, Gina DeLito, told me
02:53 that Tom Cruise apparently is the only movie star
02:55 to have in his contract that he can never be scanned
02:58 or be de-aged in a movie.
03:00 Like everything, he will always do it practically
03:02 by refusing to age.
03:04 And this is despite the actor Morales
03:05 being de-aged in these flashbacks.
03:06 Notice how Tom Cruise is only ever shown in shadow
03:09 because he cannot and will not digitally de-age himself.
03:11 So Ethan goes looking for Ilsa Faust,
03:13 Rebecca Ferguson, returning to the movie,
03:15 now hiding in the Arabian desert near the Yemeni border.
03:17 Another sandstorm looms, and you know Ethan is like,
03:20 "Didn't I already fight one of these in "Ghost Protocol"?"
03:22 As Ilsa snipes the other assassins, she wears an eye patch,
03:24 and Rebecca Ferguson revealed that this was just
03:26 because the actor couldn't wink her left eye
03:28 while peering through the scope.
03:29 - 'Cause you can't wink, innit?
03:30 - It's because I can't (beep) wink.
03:31 He lined up the shot.
03:33 I took it, I was ready, I was breathing,
03:35 and he goes, "Now close your eye."
03:37 And I went...
03:38 Now close the one eye.
03:42 Okay, other shot, other angle.
03:43 Close the eye.
03:45 Can we get an eye patch?
03:46 - Ethan finds Ilsa dead, we think,
03:47 and then we jump to this intelligence briefing
03:49 filled with familiar faces.
03:51 Mark Gatiss plays the NSA head.
03:53 He's of course Mycroft from "Sherlock"
03:54 and the head of the Iron Bank in "Game of Thrones."
03:56 Hideo Ibarra leads the DIA, also from "Game of Thrones"
03:59 and "Obi-Wan Kenobi," a bunch of roles.
04:00 Freaking Rob Delaney shows up leading the JSOC,
04:03 and Charles Parnell leads the NRO
04:05 after recently playing Warlock in "Top Gun Maverick."
04:07 Cary Elwes plays Denlinger,
04:09 the director of national intelligence.
04:11 They all discuss how the entity has spread
04:12 through all defense systems and become sentient,
04:15 but so far only leaving fingerprints to send a message,
04:17 which Denlinger sums up as, "I shall return,"
04:20 perhaps quoting General Douglas MacArthur,
04:22 who said these words in the Philippines in World War II
04:25 and later in October 1944, returned and said,
04:27 "I have returned."
04:28 While he does this, Denlinger looks out over rows and rows
04:31 of intelligence personnel typing in analog typewriters
04:34 so that they have hard copies of everything
04:35 because they can't trust any computer system.
04:37 Just one of many examples of this movie
04:38 rewinding the clock to classic espionage tropes
04:41 instead of one that takes place in the digital age.
04:43 But the last intelligence head to speak up is Kittredge.
04:46 Henry Zerny returns for the very first time
04:48 from the 1996 film.
04:50 Zerny told "Uproxx's" Mike Ryan in an interview
04:52 that after that first film,
04:53 he actually met with CIA consultants
04:54 and came up with a ton of ideas
04:56 for where to go with this character
04:57 in an inevitable next film.
04:58 And he pitched these to Tom Cruise's
05:00 producing partner, Paula Wagner.
05:01 And while she was very polite and paid for the meal,
05:03 he was just never asked to return after that.
05:05 But he's back now and he's so good in this movie.
05:06 Also on the wall of this film is a photo of Angela Bassett
05:09 as Erica Sloan, Kittredge's predecessor,
05:11 the CIA director for "Mission Impossible Fallout."
05:13 Kittredge brings up the IMF and Denlinger's like,
05:16 "What's that, the International Monetary Fund?"
05:17 Because that is what the IMF is known as in the real world.
05:20 And everyone in the room just kind of talks
05:21 about how ridiculous the IMF is.
05:23 Charles Parnell talks about how agents
05:24 have the option to decline missions,
05:26 explaining that in order to guarantee deniability,
05:28 agents should only accept missions they can get done.
05:30 Meanwhile, the rogue agent Kittredge refers to
05:33 is actually Ethan, and he's disguised out of focus
05:35 in the background behind him.
05:36 He gives him a gas mask, he scums the room.
05:38 We flashback to the MN border
05:39 and we learn that Ilsa's not dead.
05:40 They faked it, but Ethan does tell her,
05:42 "You're dead, you stay dead."
05:43 And in this movie, Ilsa will end up staying dead.
05:46 And yeah, it kind of sucks.
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06:58 Kittredge warns Ethan,
07:00 "The next world war isn't going to be a cold one.
07:02 "It's gonna be a shooting war.
07:03 "It's gonna be a ballistic war
07:04 "of a rapidly shrinking ecosystem.
07:06 "It's gonna be a war for the last of our dwindling energy,
07:08 "drinkable water, breathable air."
07:10 And considering of the last four
07:11 "Mission Impossible" movies,
07:12 we've had two freaking dust bowls.
07:14 Maybe this does hit with Ethan.
07:16 Director Christopher McQuarrie in this movie
07:17 uses a lot of closeups with Dutch angles,
07:20 switching Kittredge from the left
07:21 to the right side of frame,
07:22 echoing Brian De Palma's stylized camera work
07:24 in the 1996 movie.
07:26 But maybe all the closeups are just a result
07:27 of the fact that they shot this movie during COVID
07:29 and didn't want to put two people next to each other
07:31 in the same frame,
07:32 which is why sometimes in this movie,
07:33 the eye lines are just a little bit off,
07:35 but it's also just stylized and fun.
07:37 Let's get over it.
07:38 In the United Arab Emirates,
07:39 J. Wiggum plays Jasper Briggs.
07:41 So much fun to watch in this movie.
07:42 He briefs his team,
07:43 telling them not to underestimate Ethan Hunt,
07:45 to only trust that he's dead
07:46 if he's stabbed in the chest with a wooden stake,
07:47 which has gotta be a joke about Tom Cruise's agelessness.
07:50 The guy is a total vampire.
07:51 Ethan meets up with Luther and Benji.
07:52 Benji freaks out about a digital parasite
07:54 destroying the world before quipping,
07:56 "Eh, well, it was bound to happen sooner or later."
07:58 Recalling his paranoid fear
07:59 about the rabbit's foot in "Mission Impossible 3,"
08:01 something worn to him over and over
08:03 as a grad student when he was at Oxford.
08:04 Luther hacks Briggs' unit's facial recognition software.
08:07 And I love how several times in this movie,
08:09 Briggs gropes around someone's face to see if it's a mask.
08:11 Meanwhile, Benji and Luther's computer
08:13 gets hacked by the Entity.
08:14 And I love how this movie does not even wait
08:15 for the Entity to arrive.
08:16 This is a world we live in right now.
08:18 It sets us in constant paranoia.
08:20 Ethan bumps into Grace, Hayley Atwell,
08:22 who snatched the key,
08:23 and he snatches it back, revealing it with a sleight of hand.
08:25 It's a sort of callback to when Ethan did sleight a hand
08:27 with a disc to fool Krieger in the 1996 film,
08:30 when Krieger really had the actual list the whole time.
08:32 I think Tom Cruise just likes to show off
08:34 his close-up magic skills.
08:35 Benji tracks down the suspicious bag
08:37 with a cryptex designed just for him.
08:39 You are done.
08:39 His last name is D-U-N-N.
08:41 The first answer is Echo.
08:42 The second one, are you afraid of death?
08:43 He has to say yes.
08:44 The third, what is always approaching but never arrives?
08:46 Tomorrow.
08:47 Fourth, who or what is most important to you?
08:48 He says his friends.
08:49 Fifth, what gets bigger the more you take away?
08:51 A hole.
08:52 And the last one is blank,
08:53 but he has to just look under it
08:54 and realize it spells out good luck.
08:56 I tried to figure out if there was like a mnemonic device
08:58 or something acrostic with these letters,
09:00 but I'm gonna be paying close attention to part two,
09:02 because I feel like these riddles are gonna come back.
09:03 Ethan sees Gabriel in the augmented reality sunglasses
09:06 in the reflection, which throws off his awareness,
09:08 allowing Grace to snatch the key back.
09:09 He doesn't notice because she replaces it
09:11 with the lighter that he let her keep, offsetting the weight.
09:14 Ethan will later use this lighter
09:16 the same exact way to fool Gabriel on the train later.
09:18 So really, this is a trick he learned from her.
09:20 In Rome, Grace gets away from Ethan
09:22 and he chases her through the streets,
09:24 but they get attacked by the group led by the assassin,
09:26 Paris, Pomme Clemente, who's so good in this movie.
09:28 I love how we see Grace dazed from the car wreck initially
09:31 and Ethan's insane heroic stunts
09:32 of taking out Paris' guys with a motorcycle,
09:34 all seen from her point of view.
09:36 The same kind of thing happens with Ethan's surprise
09:38 landing on the train car later with a parachute.
09:39 Like, we've seen enough of these movies
09:40 to know how badass Ethan Hunt is.
09:42 This time, we get to see more of his WTF surprise moves
09:44 through the eyes of a normal person.
09:46 In this sequence, Ethan handcuffs himself to Grace,
09:48 but only on his left hand,
09:49 assuming that he'll need his right hand
09:51 'cause he's right-handed,
09:51 but immediately it becomes a big problem,
09:53 because when he tries to drive the car,
09:54 Grace is hanging off of his left side, out the door.
09:56 They switch into a tiny yellow Fiat
09:58 and they swerve to avoid a baby carriage
10:00 and in the roll, as they tumble down the steps,
10:02 somehow we end up with Grace back in the driver's seat.
10:04 They end up in a metro tunnel and Grace,
10:06 having swiped the paper clip from the passport earlier,
10:09 only now uses it to pick the lock on the handcuffs,
10:11 showing that she waited until Ethan could get her
10:14 to safety away from the gunfire.
10:15 Ethan rejoins Benji and Luther and Ilsa,
10:18 so much for staying dead, Ilsa.
10:19 She will be soon enough.
10:20 Argh, I'm so mad she dies in this movie.
10:21 They discuss an upcoming meeting
10:23 with the White Widow, Alana Metzopoulos,
10:24 Vanessa Kirby, returning from "Fallout."
10:26 She's the daughter to Max from the first film,
10:28 played by Vanessa Redgrave.
10:29 Benji asks if the White Widow still thinks
10:31 that Ethan is the murderer, John Lark,
10:33 and Ethan quips, "Who says I'm not?"
10:34 And I love this because in "Fallout,"
10:36 they never really answered that question for Alana, at least.
10:38 And I think as viewers, it's okay to have a bit of suspicion
10:41 that Ethan might still have been
10:42 the mythical John Lark figure.
10:44 I mean, no, I know, call me crazy.
10:45 It's Henry Cavill's character,
10:46 but I think we killed the wrong one.
10:47 We're sorry we killed you, Henry Cavill.
10:49 You were so good at that movie with your magic pocket.
10:50 Luther brings up the video that Ethan scanned
10:52 through sunglasses in the airport
10:53 and sees in a store mirror reflection
10:55 are one shot of Gabriel, an otherwise invisible man.
10:58 It's a clever bit of VFX commentary, I think,
11:00 because remembering to remove and add things
11:02 from reflections that are captured on set
11:04 is just one of the most painstaking parts of the VFX job.
11:06 Ethan realizes that all of Ilsa's MI6 communications,
11:09 since she was disavowed,
11:10 were done digitally from an anonymous source.
11:12 And they realize suddenly that she
11:14 might've been manipulated here by the entity to join Ethan.
11:17 In fact, the entity may have been using
11:19 all of Ethan's friends to get to him.
11:20 And everyone starts second-guessing everything.
11:22 I love how McQuarrie tilts the camera more and more Dutch
11:25 as they get confused and bicker in the scene.
11:26 But either way, they head to Venice,
11:27 where there's a party with some awesome lights,
11:29 digital screens everywhere.
11:30 We later learn these lights and screens
11:32 are the entity itself.
11:33 It's fitting that it takes the shape of an eye,
11:35 as it's the eye of God, digital evil God.
11:38 It recalls the ring shape,
11:39 the representation of the Rehoboam software
11:42 in "Westworld" season three.
11:43 He's essentially the same thing,
11:44 at least when it comes to predicting people's life paths,
11:47 but in this case, it's not grounded
11:48 in one server in the desert.
11:49 I love how throughout this meeting,
11:50 that entity eye just kind of lingers in the background,
11:53 just over Tom Cruise's shoulder in plain sight,
11:55 and gradually reveals itself to Ethan,
11:57 just to prove it was with him the entire time.
11:59 Now, these kinds of parties and fancy events
12:00 were totally a trope in "Mission Impossible" movies.
12:02 It started with a prog party in the 1996 film,
12:04 and we saw another party in "Mission Impossible III"
12:06 and "Mission Impossible IV."
12:07 They switched it up in "Five" and "Rogue Nation"
12:09 when they went to an opera.
12:10 But then there was the other big party
12:11 that the Halo jumped down to in "Mission Impossible VI."
12:13 At this party, we see Alana's brother, Zola,
12:15 played by Fredrick Smith,
12:16 also returning in this role from "Fallout."
12:17 All the big players join in this meeting,
12:19 led by Alana, who still calls Ethan John Lark,
12:21 because yeah, she never learned his real name.
12:22 Gabriel says that by the end of the night,
12:24 Ethan will lose either Grace or Ilsa,
12:26 and Gabriel will end up with his half of the key.
12:28 Gabriel says, "It is written,"
12:30 which is a common idiom from the Bible,
12:31 and fitting for a man named Gabriel,
12:32 after God's archangel,
12:34 but also becomes a bit of an antithesis
12:35 to the theme from the film "Lawrence of Arabia,"
12:37 where Lawrence often says, "Nothing is written."
12:39 The entity hacks the comms and pretends to be Benji,
12:42 misdirecting Ethan and causing him
12:43 to lose both Grace and Ilsa.
12:45 And I just love how creepy it is
12:47 when the voice melts from Benji
12:48 to something closer to Gabriel,
12:50 and it says, "You are done,"
12:51 recalling back the "You are done"
12:53 that Benji saw in the cryptex.
12:54 Composer Lauren Balfe in this movie
12:55 does a really cool effect with the music
12:57 every time the entity appears,
12:58 inverting the normal score.
12:59 Now, the normal score in this movie
13:00 is of course based on Lalo Schifrin's iconic classic theme,
13:03 ♪ Da da da da ♪
13:06 but the entity music inverts that,
13:07 ♪ Na na ♪
13:09 going from down to up,
13:11 and doing so in a creepy, creepy minor key.
13:13 So during the fight, Ethan allows Paris to live,
13:15 a choice that will pay off in the end,
13:16 perhaps a choice that the entity
13:18 did not initially see coming.
13:19 While fighting Gabriel on the bridge,
13:20 Ilsa displays her patented legs around the neck takedown,
13:23 but Gabriel is a step ahead of her,
13:24 stabbing her in the leg.
13:25 Pretty smart move akin to a pro wrestler
13:27 targeting the part of the body
13:28 that the opponent uses as a finisher.
13:30 And so Ilsa has left her dead on this bridge,
13:32 pissing me off,
13:32 because why would you bring Rebecca Ferguson
13:34 back into this movie just to kill her off?
13:35 Okay, okay, but Ethan finding that body on the bridge
13:38 gotta be tough for him
13:39 since his teammates in the '96 movie also died on a bridge.
13:42 So they enlist Grace to help them,
13:43 promising her that she can go to Kitt Ridge
13:45 and say that I said yes to the choice,
13:47 and they give her a Vanessa Kirby mask.
13:48 Like in the past films,
13:49 there is an impossible,
13:51 how the (beep) do they do this shot
13:53 that's all done practically
13:54 using subtle body doubles of the actors and a fake mirror.
13:57 It's taking a shot that would be really easy
13:58 to do with VFX.
13:59 It's something that the audience
14:00 doesn't even notice initially.
14:01 It puts a lot of effort into pulling it off.
14:03 So check it out.
14:04 We don't see Hayley Atwell put on the mask in frame.
14:07 The camera kind of pivots around her head
14:08 and then follows just a blonde wig
14:10 up to this cracked and distorted glass mirror.
14:12 And then on the other side of that mirror,
14:14 they have the real Vanessa Kirby
14:15 walking up from the other side.
14:16 So it's not a mirror,
14:17 it's just a pane of glass
14:18 with a tilted room on the other side.
14:20 But since this mirror glass is broken,
14:22 that is really the how do they do this part,
14:23 'cause they had to design a special pane of glass
14:25 that looked like it was broken and distorted.
14:27 And that's assuming that they didn't use VFX,
14:28 which I really don't think they did.
14:30 I'm gonna be really sad if they just did this with VFX,
14:31 because doing the practical mask stuff
14:33 is just part of the Mission Impossible tradition.
14:34 I think Christopher McQuarrie knows that.
14:36 Okay, so Luther departs for the final act.
14:37 Fun not to have him with us,
14:39 but he's likely gonna be playing a bigger role
14:40 in the next movie.
14:41 He tells Ethan though, not to kill Gabriel,
14:43 because if he does, the entity would win.
14:44 The suitcase mask printer breaks
14:46 for the mask for Alana's brother.
14:47 So Ethan, as it goes protocol, just has to improvise.
14:50 Bringing us to the final act on a train,
14:51 as it was for the final act of the 1996 film,
14:53 Grace swaps places with the real Alana.
14:55 And you can always tell,
14:56 because the real Alana has crystal blue eyes,
14:58 Grace has brown eyes,
14:59 and props to Vanessa Kirby for doing an impression of Grace,
15:02 doing an impression of her for such an extended scene.
15:04 Benji finds an alternate path for Ethan to make the jump,
15:06 leading to the big old stunt of this movie.
15:09 You've probably seen the various featurettes
15:10 of this big jump.
15:11 And yes, it's insane.
15:13 Tom Cruise actually did it practically.
15:14 But one detail I love,
15:15 is that right before Ethan revs up the motorcycle
15:18 to hit the gas,
15:18 Tom Cruise does this little head shake
15:20 to shake away his tragic memories.
15:22 It's an acting choice to show him shaking away his fear.
15:24 But Tom Cruise said in an interview
15:26 that this is also a signal to the camera guy
15:28 that he was about to go,
15:29 because the timing had to be perfect
15:31 for Tom Cruise's face to be in focus on the jump.
15:32 Really the only VFX in the shot
15:34 was the work to paint over the ramp
15:35 to make it look like it was part of a cliff.
15:37 But I like how here,
15:38 rather than stay with Ethan all the way down,
15:40 like we saw with the Halo jump in "Fallout",
15:42 we cut back to Grace with the Alana mask
15:44 after her meeting with Kittredge.
15:45 And we don't see Ethan until he glides through the window
15:47 on the dining car to take out Zola's guy.
15:49 That way it makes his landing a complete surprise
15:51 and a hilarious punchline.
15:52 Now it's interesting to note
15:53 that Kittredge planned to meet with Alana, the White Widow,
15:56 while Denlinger, Carrie Eloise,
15:57 planned to meet with Gabriel,
15:58 revealing that the United States created the entity
16:01 and just got away from them.
16:02 And perhaps that whole intelligence briefing
16:04 early on in the film
16:05 wasn't really telling Denlinger anything new.
16:07 That's why he was facing away
16:08 from the other intelligence chiefs.
16:10 He didn't want to give away a tell.
16:11 As Ethan fights Gabriel,
16:12 Grace runs through every train car
16:13 all the way to the engine,
16:14 giving us a little preview of every train car
16:16 on this train that she and Ethan
16:17 will later have to climb back through.
16:19 She passes through the bar car with the piano,
16:21 then the dining car,
16:22 then the kitchen bar with boiling grease.
16:24 And so later, after the bridge explodes
16:26 and the engine goes over,
16:27 detached from the other cars,
16:28 we think the movie's over,
16:29 but no, no, no, no, no, my friends,
16:30 inertia is a real thing.
16:32 And I have never seen a slow train crash
16:34 where the threats are just inertia and gravity
16:36 and loose shit in an inverted train car.
16:38 It's so much fun.
16:40 Apparently they built each car practically
16:42 and it totally pays off.
16:43 It's my favorite sequence of the film.
16:44 It reminded me of the averted trailer
16:46 in the "Lost World Jurassic Park"
16:47 or the inverted hallway in "Inception."
16:49 It's so fun to have one set that characters fight through
16:51 and turning the whole thing on its axis.
16:53 The film ends with Paris and her dying breaths,
16:55 telling them where to find the entity's source code
16:57 on the Sevastopol submarine.
16:58 Hopefully, Pom Klementieff isn't dead
17:00 because her character was so much fun in this movie.
17:01 I'd love to see her come back for the next one.
17:02 But as we're headed to a submarine,
17:04 yay, yay, yay, to stop the stunts of this movie,
17:06 you know Tom Cruise is gonna have to do
17:07 some crazy free dive in part two.
17:09 Please don't die on us, Tom.
17:10 Hey, I wanna thank our writers,
17:12 Gina Ippolito and Jordan Morris
17:13 for their research help on this,
17:14 as well as some contributions by Brandon Baric,
17:17 who is a huge "Mission Impossible" nerd.
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17:20 in the New Rockstars network.
17:21 I'm doing some classic breakdowns on the deep dive,
17:23 but here on the main New Rockstars channel,
17:25 I'm gonna be breaking down the Easter eggs
17:27 in every title you love, all the current releases.
17:29 We have some exciting stuff ahead this week.
17:30 Follow me at @eavoss, follow New Rockstars.
17:33 Thanks for watching, bye.
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