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The Cinephile Hissy Fit Gives Their Ending to Mission: Impossible

(L-R) Tom Cruise and Esai Morales in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. Image courtesy of Paramount Pictures.

The hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast, sponsored and supported by the Ruminations Radio Network, are willing to ask if you’ve ever binged an entire series—film or otherwise—and, instead of feeling enriching euphoria and a strong sense of completion at the end, you are simply exhausted. You realize what you were watching had it peaks that brought you there in the first place, coupled with the weight of excessive bloat that comes from something going on too long or overstaying its welcome. As entertaining and borderline iconic as the Mission: Impossible franchise became, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and this summer’s finale, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning had that effect on our resident podcast.

The cover photo of the Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast episode for Sinners

For their 211th episode, two mask-pulling film critics, two special agent dads, and two stuntman teachers, Will Johnson and Don Shanahan, finish their four-episode retrospective covering two films of the Mission: Impossible franchise at a time. With exhaustion and indifference to AI, our guys put a bow on Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning, and the dominant Ethan Hunt chapter of Tom Cruise’s career. We’re eager to see what the 63-year-old does next after hanging up his harnesses and parachutes. Come learn more and stay for the mutual love and respect that fun movies encapsulate. Enjoy our podcast!
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Written by Don Shanahan

DON SHANAHAN is a Chicago-based Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic writing here on Film Obsessive as the Editor-in-Chief and Content Supervisor for the film department. He also writes for his own website, Every Movie Has a Lesson. Don is one of the hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast on the Ruminations Radio Network and sponsored by Film Obsessive. As a school teacher by day, Don writes his movie reviews with life lessons in mind, from the serious to the farcical. He is a proud director and one of the founders of the Chicago Indie Critics and a voting member of the nationally-recognized Critics Choice Association, Hollywood Creative Alliance, Online Film Critics Society, North American Film Critics Association, International Film Society Critics Association, Internet Film Critics Society, Online Film and TV Association, and the Celebrity Movie Awards.

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