MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING, AN ACTION FEST
Cinema Writer/Film Critic Efe TEKSOY; action, adventure and crime film “MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING”, for America’s Los Angeles-based Internet Newspaper @alaturkanews.
THE LEGENDARY SERIES CONTINUES AT FULL SPEED
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning had its world premiere in Tokyo on May 5, 2025, and was shown out of competition at the 78th Cannes Film Festival on May 14. Due to delays caused by the 2023 Hollywood strikes, the film’s budget has reportedly increased to at least $400 million, making it one of the most expensive films ever made. This sequel to Mission: Impossible – Deadly Reckoning Part One follows Ethan Hunt and his team’s relentless fight against The Entity, an artificial intelligence (AI) program that could bring about the end of the world. Directed by Oscar and BAFTA award-winning director Christopher McQuarrie from a script he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is one of the most important links in the series. Because it comes with a strong story that will tie the entire series together from the first film. It is also the first film in the series to use flashback images from previous films extensively. The legendary actor Tom Cruise, who raises the action bar to the next level in each film, adds new records to his own records in this production and offers the audience an adrenaline-filled action feast.
Stars; Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Tramell Tillman, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis and Angela Bassett.
THE SPOOKY SIDE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The main axis of the film is a mysterious artificial intelligence called The Entity, designed to gather intelligence and enter enemy systems. In this sense, the story deals with the latest point reached by technology and science in a spooky language. In the production, which focuses on the concept of mind and consciousness thanks to artificial intelligence, the problem of Mind-Body Dualism, which emerged as a direct result of the scientific revolution in the 17th century and the concept of objective physical reality that guided this revolution, emerges. French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes, known as the father of modern philosophy, stated in his Cartesian dualism view that since we can think of the mind without a physical body and the body without the mind, these cannot be one thing and divided the essences into two. British philosopher Gilbert Ryle argues that this substance dualism is based on a “classification error” with the phrase The Ghost in the Machine and suggests his own solution, behaviorism.
MIND-BODY DUALISM
One of the greatest living names in the field of philosophy of mind, American philosopher Thomas Nagel, who is a professor of philosophy and law at New York University, wrote one of the most influential texts of the twentieth century with his article titled “What is it like to be a bat?” published in 1974. The reason he chose the bat in this article is that bats are more similar to humans than other species and have a very different variety of movements and perceptual equipment than humans. In this article, Nagel states (roughly); Bat Sonar is something we cannot perceive with any of our senses, but in order to know what it is like to be a bat, a person must use the bat’s perspective. Nagel states; “If one can use this perspective roughly or to some extent, one’s idea will also be rough or partial.” and states that this is directly related to mind-body dualism because it is a phenomenon related to experience. In the movie, we see that the artificial intelligence called The Entity learns what it is like to be human by making some observations and experiences.
BEHIND THE SCENES
-Tom Cruise and Ving Rhames are the only actors to appear in all eight films.
-With a runtime of 169 minutes (2 hr 49 min) this will be the longest Mission: Impossible film to date, surpassing the previous record of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, which had a runtime of 163 minutes (2 hr 43 min).
The skydiving scene was filmed by having Tom Cruise leap out of a helicopter while wearing a harness with a rod mounted to his abdomen. A small camera was attached to the end of the rod, facing him so the rod remained out of the camera’s frame.
-Tom Cruise and Esai Morales performed their own stunts when in the flying biplane, including when Cruise holds onto the wings of the aircraft as it spins upside down. Meanwhile, the pilot of the plane wore a suit made out of green-screen material so they could be digitally removed to make it look like nobody is in the cockpit.
-The Rabbit’s Foot makes its return to the franchise after nineteen years. Tom Cruise has often said that, though it was simply meant to be an object to propel the plot, fans of the franchise are still very much wanting to know what its purpose was. The key to Ethan’s handcuffs in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) was purposefully adorned with an actual rabbit’s foot key chain as a reference for the fans.
EFE TEKSOY
References and Sources
NAGEL, THOMAS. Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False, Ozge Cağlar Aksoy, translate, Istanbul: Jaguar Kitap press, 2015
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