Mission: Impossible – Fallout The Rewatchables
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Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Picking Nits

Uninjured bodies, countdown, unnecessary halo jump, relationship logic and masks.

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  • Surviving the action without injury is a nitpick.
  • The countdown timing is a nitpick.
  • The HALO landing is a nitpick.
  • The landing is compared to Jordan.
  • The necessity of the HALO jump is questioned.
  • The wife’s remarriage bothers one speaker; another objects that Ethan has other women. Chemistry with the French officer, Connolly and Kidman is compared, with Days of Thunder praised.
  • Repeated allegiance/mask reversals seem stale and technologically implausible. A dissenting participant loves masks despite unreality. Voice modulation, instant makeup and a cheap-looking wig extend the objection.
  • Advanced face/biotech tools contrasted with inability to unlock a six-digit phone make the fake hospital/CNN elaborate. Violent interrogation and a Man on Fire crossover are hypothetical alternatives, not recommendations.
  • The destruction-of-current-world-order manifesto title and great-peace/great-suffering pitch are mocked as bland content unlikely to persuade a CNN audience.