Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning with Chris McQuarrie

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

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Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv Reviews, Film Interviews

4.4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Vanguardistas have more fun—so if you don’t already subscribe to the podcast, join the Vanguard today via Apple Podcasts or extratakes.com for non-fruit-related devices. In return you’ll get a whole extra Take 2 alongside Take 1 every week, with bonus reviews, more viewing recommendations from the Good Doctors and whole bonus episodes just for you. And if you’re already a Vanguardista, we salute you. The wait is over for the actioniest and Tom Cruiseiest of all Tom Cruise action movies – ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’. And we’ve got action director (and producer and writer) extraordinaire Chris McQuarrie—who is behind this and the last four Missions—in the guest spot for you this week. Our super sub Ben Bailey Smith chats to him about the much-anticipated new movie, its jaw-dropping stunts, and his longstanding creative partnership with Tom Cruise. Simon is on his holibobs this week and we bet he’s gutted to be missing this one! Plus we find out what Mark makes of this epic conclusion to the 29-year Mission: Impossible series. It’s a proper blockbuster week with reviews of two more big cinema releases too. Firstly, Disney’s live action ‘Lilo and Sitch’, which sees everyone’s favourite fuzzy blue genetic experiment accompanied by a cast of IRL actors including Hannah Waddingham as an alien and Maia Kealoha as Lilo. Secondly and more achingly-arty-quirkily, it’s Wes Anderson’s latest ‘The Phoenician Scheme’, starring Benicio del Toro, Scarlett Johansson, Mia Threapleton, Bill Murray, Tom Hanks—and indeed Uncle Tom Cobley and all. Plus all the usual top bantz from Mark and Ben, and from your stellar correspondence. Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free): Lilo and Stitch: 07:32 Box Office Top Ten: 12:59 Chris McQuarrie Interview: 26:10 Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning Review: 40:29 The Phoenician Scheme: 55:24 You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo Please take our survey and help shape the future of our show: https://www.kermodeandmayo.com/survey EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: [email protected] And to find out more about Sony’s new show Origins with Cush Jumbo, click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Ben here from Kermode and Mayo's Take. Now, there are some unique and fascinating stories coming to Netflix this month, all of them based on real life events. Out on 14th of May, we've got Fred and Rose West, a British horror story.
0:11.4	Now, back in 1994, Fred and Rose West's terrible crimes came to light. Fred took his own life in jail before he could be charged with 12 murders, and this doc brings police interview tapes to the screen screen which may be able to help answer some of the important questions about their crimes.
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0:30.1	interested in a determined search for justice, you're in the right place.
0:33.9	And we've got three others coming up on Netflix in May. Britain and the Blitz, the story of Winston Churchill, through the prism of the Bliss, a deadly American marriage, incredible doc,
0:41.8	that tells this compelling layered story of the death of Jason Corbett at the hands of his wife
0:46.7	and her father. And then finally, Untold, the Liver King, which follows the rise, fall and rebirth
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1:10.1	including bonus reviews.
1:11.9	Extra viewing suggestions. Viewing recommendations at home and in cinemas.
1:16.3	Plus your film and non-film questions answered as best we can in questions, Schmestians.
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1:33.4	And if you're already a vanguard Easter, we salute you.
1:38.8	We salute you. We're going to kick off this week with a little bit of controversy.
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