Everything You Need to Know About the Most Clever Reveal in ‘Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning,’ 29 Years in the Making

The Most Delightful Surprise in the New Mission: Impossible Is a Twist 29 Years in the Making

Ethan Hunt’s final reckoning involves … the voice of the Teletubbies?

Everything You Need to Know About the Most Clever Reveal in ‘Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning,’ 29 Years in the Making

[Editor’s note: The following interview contains spoilers for “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning.”]  A very strong argument could be made that, to this day, the most iconic scene in all eight “Mission: Impossible” movies is still from Brian De Palma’s original 1996 entry. In an effort to figure out who the traitor on his team is, Ethan Hunt needs the NOC list, which contains the identities of every American spy. To get this, he and his t…

The Briggs / Phelps Factor

There’s an interesting (if very slightly spoilery) element to the eighth Mission: Impossible film – the identiy of the agent chasing Ethan Hunt… Played by Shea Wigham, we first meet Jasper Briggs in Dead Reckoning. He and Degas, played by Greg Tarzan Davis, are the two CIA agents tasked with bringing Ethan and co in as they go off book Yet Again. At the time, it’s clear that Briggs has a deep personal dislike of Ethan but we don’t find out why u…

Movie Review – Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning

Genre: Action Premise: Ethan Hunt’s mission, should he choose to accept it, is to destroy an evil AI that wants to blow up the world. He’ll do anything, including going to the bottom of the ocean, and soaring to the highest point in the sky, to achieve his goal. About: The last Mission Impossible movie was supposed to be Part One in a Two-Part Mission Impossible franchise finale. But the movie did so poorly that Paramount regrouped and repurpose…

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Revealed a Surprising Character’s Connection to the Original Movie

Image courtesy of Paramount Pictures Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning introduced Shea Whigham as Jasper Briggs, an enforcer for the U.S. Intelligence Community tasked with capturing Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and retrieving the key to the Sevastopol submarine. His mission, which he eagerly accepted, was to ensure the United States would be the only nation capable of retrieving the Entity’s source code from the sunk submarine, controlling the AI…