About this episode

The hosts discuss the action-packed film 'Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol' and its impact on the franchise.

We break radio silence now as Nick has been deep in Romulan space with shields up and unable to transmit. Join us this week as Tom Cruise gets thrown into a Russian prison, breaks out before breakfast, sneaks into the Kremlin, climbs the tallest building on Earth with a pair of malfunctioning oven mitts, and somehow that's only about half of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. This is the movie where the franchise stops apologizing for itself and fully embraces Tom's quest to personally terrify the insurance industry. With Elise out this week, it's just Nick and Anthony behind the microphones. They celebrate Simon Pegg graduating from "guy in the van" to full IMF field agent, wonder why Jeremy Renner spent a decade auditioning to inherit every major franchise, and ponder how much more effectively we couldsolve international incidents if only we could sprint faster. The conversation veers through Bruce Springsteen T-shirt trivia, Dean Martin prison break soundtracks, Russian nuclear paranoia, Pixar easter eggs, the increasingly ridiculous Mission: Impossible spy gadgets, and whether the fake hallway projector might secretly be the dumbest brilliant idea ever put on film…

People in this episode

Hosts: Nick, Anthony

Topics covered

• Mission: Impossible
• action movies
• film reviews
• Tom Cruise
• spy gadgets
• international incidents

Keywords

• Mission: Impossible
• Ghost Protocol
• Tom Cruise
• Simon Pegg
• action spectacle
• spy gadgets
• film review

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol

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