Ep. 825 - Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

The Filmcast

Tv & Film, Entertainment News, News

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

David, Devindra, and Jeff search for immortality in Fountain of Youth, look back on a lifetime of comedy with Pee-Wee as Himself, and crane kick their way through The Karate Kid Part II. Then they choose to accept the mission to share their thoughts on Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.

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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding TV: Matt Goldberg’s Recap of The Last of Us Finale and Decoding Everything: Stephen David Miller’s Cannes Dispatches
Devindra - Engadget Podcast: The AI and XR of Google I/O 2025
Jeff - runjeffrun.com

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:08:51)
David - Fountain of Youth
Devindra - Fountain of Youth, Pee-Wee as Himself
Jeff - Pee-Wee as Himself, The Karate Kid Part II

Featured Review (~01:07:44)
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
SPOILERS (~01:31:22)

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the filmcast, a podcast about movies.
0:23.2	I'm David Chen, and your mission, should you choose to accept it,
0:26.8	is to listen to a lot of self-mythologizing and exposition before we get to the action.
0:30.8	Everyone came here to see.
0:32.1	Joining me today is Devon Your Hardware.
0:34.2	It's time to finally reckon with why we gave a Scientologist so much power.
0:39.4	And Jeff Kadata.
0:41.0	In the exact same way, it's true for Tom Cruise and Mission Impossible.
0:45.7	This will also be my final film cast episode.
0:50.2	What?
0:50.8	See you next week, everybody.
0:53.9	I get it. I get it. I was
0:55.7	thought you were making an announcement
0:57.5	an unplanned announcement there for a second, Jeff.
1:00.8	Those are vague and oblique references to the fact that today on the podcast
1:03.6	we're going to be reviewing Mission Impossible,
1:06.9	the final reckoning. You can find more episodes
1:10.0	of this podcast at the Filmcast.com.
1:11.9	Email us at slash Filmcast, gmail.com.
1:14.5	And become a supporter at patreon.com slash film podcast where you got to hear our
1:18.2	final reckoning review early.
1:20.2	We recorded it days before we're recording this episode, this segment that you're
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