As the title implies, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART ONE, this is part one of a two-part series. In this one, Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands. Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie have made this a huge movie, in both action…
Dan and Tom just saw MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART ONE. Listen as they give you their no-spoiler first impression of the movie.
What is the Mission: Impossible arc that covers the first 6 movies? We talk with Mike Reyes of CinemaBlend.com to hear his take on it.
Join Dan and Tom as they decode more Mission: Impossible gadgets in Ghost Protocol, Rogue Nation, and Fallout.
Join Dan and Tom as they decode the gadgets in Mission: Impossible 1 – 3. Masks, Exploding gum, microdots, human-embedded bombs, and more!
Here’s our Spy Movie News for January 25, 2022! Bond IMAX and VFX, Mission Impossible – really!, Blacklight, The Bricklayer, Conmen, Eraser: Reborn, The 355, Miénteme, Red Notice, To Catch a Thief, and more!
Join Dan and Tom for some fun as they decode the pre-title sequence of Mission: Impossible II!
Join Dan and Tom as they unmask and decode the pre-title sequence in Mission Impossible (1) from 1996!
Join Dan and Tom as they unmask and decode the pre-title sequence in Mission Impossible (1) from 1996!
Part 2 of our podcast where Dan and Tom spy on Mission: Impossible II, looking for interesting facts, scenes and connections! It actually makes Mission: Impossible II fun! Viruses! Antidotes! Masks! Hunt! Luther! Nyah! Yeah! Aerial stunts and more!
Join Dan and Tom as they spy on Mission: Impossible II, looking for interesting facts, scenes and connections! It actually makes Mission: Impossible II fun! This is Part 1 of a 2 Part podcast!
Lasers have been used in lots of spy movies. They can enhance a scene and are often used as cutting or security devices. For instance, the first use of a laser in a spy movie is in the third James Bond movie, Goldfinger. Who developed the first laser? We’ll cover that to understand the timeline…
Do you remember the famous Mission: Impossible vault scene? Ethan Hunt is lowered into the vault from the ceiling. He must deal with alarms and sensors. Where did they get that idea? SpyMovieNavigator.com examines this famous vault scene. The scene obviously pays homage to the 1955 movie Rififi and the 1964 movie Topkapi. Therefore, we…
Join Tom and Dan in our 2019 wrap-up podcast of our Cracking the Code of Spy Movies show! Here, we include clips from all of our 2019 podcasts – take a listen, find ones that interest you and subscribe (free) to our Cracking the Code of Spy Movies show and listen to the full episodes! We end the episode with a look ahead at the spy movies we are anticipating in 2020.
Every other spy movie franchise loathes and despises James Bond 007 – and the EON Productions 50+ years of success. Why?
Join Tom and Dan as they investigate why James Bond still tops Mission: Impossible, Bourne and what about George Smiley?
Have you ever thought about how events in the real world and other movies could affect and work their way into some of our favorite spy movies? Well, think about it a minute because that’s what we are going to explore today on Spy Movie Navigator.
This is part 2 of the series.
Join Dan Silvestri and Tom Pizzato us as they delve into Mission: Impossible 1 and see what this franchise is all about and how it will continue to grow and challenge other spy movie franchises, like Bond and Bourne.
When an IMF mission to recover plutonium ends badly, the world is faced with the threat of the Apostles, a terrorist organization formed by former members of the Syndicate. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfill the original mission, the CIA begins to question his loyalty and his motives.
Ethan Hunt comes under threat from the Syndicate, a near-mythical organization of rogue agents who kill to order. Faced with the IMF’s disbandment, Hunt assembles his team for their mission to prove the Syndicate’s existence and bring the organization down by any means necessary.
Ethan and the entire IMF are blamed for the bombing of the Kremlin while investigating an individual known only as “Cobalt” (Michael Nyqvist). He and three other agents are left to stop him from starting a global nuclear war.
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Dan Silvestri and Tom Pizzato explain the roots of SpyMovieNavigator and how this whole thing got started, and how we are looking to you, our users and listeners, to contribute your ideas, discussions, photos, videos and more to this new community!
Real world & spy movies – how things in the real world affect and work their way into spy movies. We provide Insights into a variety of real-life stuff.
Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt for the third go-around in Mission: Impossible III. This 2006 movie again brings back Ethan Hunt. This time, he has a fiancé, Julia. She gets kidnapped as a result of yet another failed mission for Ethan’s team (capturing Davian). In this curation (and in the podcast), we discuss…
Mission: Impossible III was directed by J.J. Abrams. He was also the creator of the television show “Alias”. That TV show used long pre-title sequences, so it is no surprise that Mission: Impossible III has a pre-title sequence, although it is short by “Alias” standards. The movie’s pre-title sequence has a unique twist among spy…
In the party scene, we find out that Ethan and Julia are engaged. For some reason, spy movies like to have agents get married in a film or two. In On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, James Bond marries Tracy. In Licence to Kill, Felix Leiter marries Della. It does not end well for the women…
Lindsey Farris is a young agent in the IMF who has been captured by Davian. This scene is part of the extraction of Lindsey from where she was being held. She is complaining about something that obviously is hurting her. Davian has injected an explosive device in her skull. This comes back into play toward…
In the pre-title sequence, there is mention of something called the “Rabbit’s Foot”. Ethan needs to get the Rabbit’s Foot and bring it to Davian. In this clip, this scene, Benji speculates about the Rabbit’s Foot, even describing it as the anti-god. The Rabbit’s Foot is a MacGuffin. Although many of you will know this…
This scene again focuses on Ethan’s deception to Julia about his job. It ends with them getting married. It is very rare in spy films for agents to get married. It is even more rare for the starring agent to get married. As mentioned earlier, James Bond marries Tracy and that’s about it. It is…
This scene shows the mission of breaking into the Vatican so that the team can kidnap Davian. There are two stunts in the scene. The first one has Ethan running up a wall. The second is the now-familiar falling-with-a-cable-attached-spreading-the-arms-and-just-missing-the-ground type of stunt. This has happened in all of the first 3 Mission: Impossible films: In…
There is a lengthy scene as the IMF team is in the Vatican to kidnap Davian. This clip shows the scene in the bathroom when the team grabs Davian. Ethan is wearing a mask and is dressed as Davian. After they grab Davian, he has to speak into a device that lets Luther program Ethan’s…
