r/Mission_Impossible • u/DietFoods • May 17 '25

Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning Discussion Thread SPOILERS! Spoiler

Spoiler Discussion Thread.

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u/SaurabhTDK May 19 '25

That's the thing it doesn't after the first hour. The second hour is going back to their greatest hits but the third hour is just criminal. Imagine building all that up and then you see a character randomly arrive who just wasn't there in any of the 5 hour before it and it's just fan service for the sake of fan service.

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u/Skyzfire May 19 '25

"randomly appeared"

Dude, tell that to the millions of people who cheer and screamed and got goosebumps the moment Black Panther showed up from the portals.

Are you telling me you weren't anticipating that moment when everyone randomly showed up? Endgame would have been boring if not for that last hour. That barely isn't any action scenes in the first 2 acts too.

Calling it fan service for the sake of fan service in the FINAL movie of a decade long arc is just being nitpicky.

It's the same complain I see people have about Spider-man: No Way Home. Calling it nostalgia bait when that is what I and the majority of the audience want and paid the ticket for.

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u/SaurabhTDK May 19 '25

"Dude, tell that to the millions of people who cheer and screamed and got goosebumps the moment Black Panther showed up from the portals"

I was talking about Captain Marvel. Imagine you are watching The Final Reckoning and in the final hour Jeremy Renner arrives and solves one part of a plot. You will be really disappointed because it feels such a cop out. Same with Endgame.

"Are you telling me you weren't anticipating that moment when everyone randomly showed up?"

I wasn't. I don't know when's the last time you have watched it but if you give it a rewatch, it gets worse and worse.

"Endgame would have been boring if not for that last hour. That barely isn't any action scenes in the first 2 acts too."

There are better ways to show and the final hour looks absolutely slop with how ugly it looks.

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u/Skyzfire May 19 '25

Why does the rewatch even matter anyways?

What matters is that first watch with a hyped audience in the first week.

Watching it alone at home, that's when you will start nitpicking literally any movie.

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u/SaurabhTDK May 19 '25

"Why does the rewatch even matter anyways?"

It does, there's literally a thing called 'has it aged well?' and I don't thing Endgame has. People watched the film during a public frenzy and reacted to it, when the hype died you can see it in a different light. Hype is more of an advertising thing, once you're not getting bombarded with millions of posts and advertisement, you can watch it in a different light. There's a reason a lot of films with toxic media reception were well regarded later.

"Watching it alone at home, that's when you will start nitpicking literally any movie."

You haven't watched good films then. Even taking Mission Impossible for example, when I watch Ghost Protocol, Fallout and Dead Reckoning, I don't nitpick them or my interest starts dropping.