This is the best action franchise ever created. No cap.
Listen we’re just gonna get right to the show notes because I worked really hard on them:
* In the banter: Nerding out about Harry Potter lego book sets + one day we will be Black Beard and Red Beard
* Would you like to know where this movie ranks in the M:I franchise? It's high. Very high.
* Drama sometimes slides into melodrama
* How this movie (and the other strongest entries) set up personal stakes
* Mourning the loss of a favorite character, and a sincere disagreement about how the loss was handled
* How to make a Car Chase feel fresh
* Cart sometimes pulling the horse, i.e. theme sometimes strong-arms plot
* The calculus of character death
* Hayley Atwell is luminous
* Ethan Hunt is the American James Bond
* Can this franchise continue without Tom Cruise? HINT NO
* That train sequence tho (or, how to make a Runaway Train feel fresh); homages to Jurassic World and...Toy Story 2
* Best comedy of the franchise?
* What Part 2 will have to do to be narratively successful
* Why this is best critically reviewed movie in the franchise
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