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Honest Trailer - Mission: Impossible - Fallout

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Honest Trailers - Mission: Impossible - Fallout is the 274th episode of Screen Junkies comedy series Honest Trailers. It was written by Spencer Gilbert, Dan Murrell, Joe Starr and Lon Harris. It was narrated by Jon Bailey as Epic Voice Guy. It parodies the 2018 American action spy thriller film Mission: Impossible - Fallout. The video is 4 minutes 21 seconds long. It was published on December 4, 2018, to coincide with the film's release on digital/Blu-ray. It has been viewed over 1.3 million times.

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"When the world hangs in the balance, Tom Cruise will hang and balance, in the franchise that keeps pushing him to top the last one, until he dies making one of these and we examine our own role in this deadly game of stunt chicken." ~ Honest Trailers - Mission: Impossible - Fallout

Script[]

The following trailer is rated S for Spoilers.

When the world hangs in the balance, Tom Cruise will hang and balance, in the franchise that keeps pushing him to top the last one, until he dies making one of these and we examine our own role in this deadly game of stunt chicken. (shows Ethan sitting in contemplation) But until then... You jump from that roof! You jump good, boy! Whoo!

Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Rejoin the Impossible Mission Force on their most dangerous mission yet: getting their hands on some baaalls, as Ethan Hunt loses his baaalls, tracks the baaalls down, and has his best friends and ex-wife work together to stop those baaalls from exploding.

Luther: I don't have enough hands.

Tom, buddy, we know you still got it; you don't have to ram it down our throats with the metaphors. (shows Ethan spitting out the detonator's deactivation pin) Hmm...

You've seen every M:I yet, so of course, you were thrilled when Solomon Lane returned. No? ...You don't remember him? Well, you do remember the badass MI6 agent, Ilsa. (shows Ethan looking at Julie) No, that's his wife from M:i:III. (shows a French policewoman) That's just some random cop. (shows Rachel Dawes) That's Katie Holmes. (shows Ilsa Faust) Okay, that's her. And you remember the evil Syndicate, right? (shows the Red Skull addressing a legion of Hydra soldiers) That's Hydra. (shows Franz Oberhauser) That's Spectre. Fine! Forget everything you never remembered in the first place, because our heroes are up against the Apostles, and they've got a plan to wipe out a third of the global population. (shows Thanos snapping his fingers with the Infinity Gauntlet) That's Thanos; I said "a third", not "half".

Ilsa: They're going to starve one-third of the world's population.

<sigh> Look, movie, I'm here to watch Tom hang from stuff; we're six missions in, and I still call the Ving Rhames character "Ving Rhames". Even the people in the film seem lost this time!

Ethan: It's complicated.

Zola: What the hell is he doing?

Ilsa: What the hell is he doing?

Luther: What the hell are you doing?

Ethan: I don't understand what I'm involved in? ...What am I involved in?

Walker: Why did you have to make this so f*cking complicated?

Joining the gang -- or, if you saw the trailer, betraying the gang -- is the secret agent August Walker, a role that cements Henry Cavill as the new king of men's room scenes. (shows characters played by Henry Cavill fighting in a bathroom in this film, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) He's a spy who could go undercover as anyone, from an NFL linebacker, to Haggar from Final Fight (shows both Walker and Mike Haggar performing a vertical suplex), complete with arms that require a reload (shows Walker pumping his arms as a stock "reloading" sound effect plays), and a mustache so powerful, it could cripple the DCEU (shows Walker alongside a CGI-mouthed Superman from Justice League), so you know it's going to go down when he finally faces off against his most brutal foe yet... Alec Baldwin? (shows Hunley attacking Walker) Alec, if you wanted out of the franchise, just disappear like Jeremy Renner did, or Paula Patton, or Thandie Newton, or Jonathan Rhys Meyers, or Laurence Fishburne, or Anthony Hopkins. Where did these people go? Are they the Apostles?!

So if you like the same potent mix of intrigue and cardio as the last five of these things, and don't mind that they still lean on the mask trick pretty hard, or use the same HALO jump sequence as two other Bad Robot productions (Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness), or have a weirdly similar ending to Return of the King (?) (shows scenes from both films where the main character lies on the ground, falls into unconsciousness, and then wakes up in an overly-lit bedroom as his friends enter), enjoy one of the best action movies of the year, because the next one might be his last. (shows Tom Cruise breaking his foot while jumping from one building to another) HOOOO!! Tom! You've given us enough! Stop!

Starring: The Man from S.W.O.L.E. (Henry Cavill as August Walker/John Lark); Thetan Hunt (Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt); I'm the Hat Man (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop) (Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell); Benji Mans Buttons (Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn) You know, 'cause he's manning the buttons.; Ilsa Me, Rebecca Ferguson (as Ilsa Faust); Hannibal Lectures (Sean Harris as Solomon Lane); Scarlett Johansson (Vanessa Kirby as Alanna Mitsopolis/White Widow); Scarlett Johansson? (Liang Yang as the John Lark decoy) Wow, what a chameleon.; Jack Tryin' (Alec Baldwin as Alan Hunley); and Fake News (Wolf Blitzer as Benji's disguise).

Stuntman v Superman: Tom of Justice

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Honest title for Mission: Impossible – Fallout - Stuntman v Superman: Tom of Justice. Titles designed by Robert Holtby.

Luther: Have a seat. / The Nubra River Valley.

Is it in Ving Rhames' contract that he never has to stand up?

Luther: (strained) We're good.

Trivia[]

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Honest Trailers Commentary - Mission- Impossible - Fallout

  • The writers found it challenging to come up with fake names for the "starring" section in this Honest Trailer. They didn't have this same difficulty when making their earlier Mission: Impossible Honest Trailer because it covered the entire franchise - in that video, they used the starring section to list common cinematic tropes from the films, rather than punning or rhyming individual actor's names.
  • While taping the Honest Trailer Commentary for this video, the writers came up with another, perhaps superior, alternate title: Mission: Impossible - Fakeout which references the film's many shocking plot twists that turn out to be faked, including the apparent detonation of three nuclear bombs.
  • The first comment on the viewer's comments pay tribute to the creator of Spongebob Squarepants, Stephen Hillenburg who died of ALS on November 26, 2018 at the age of 57.
  • Screen Junkies have produced Honest Trailers for several other action thrillers like the previous Mission: Impossible films, The Bourne Trilogy, Taken, Kingsman: The Secret Service, the James Bond films Skyfall and Spectre, the assassin movie John Wick, and others. See list of Honest Trailers for more.
  • With the release of the honest trailer, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation is the only Mission: Impossible movie that has yet to receive an Honest Trailer.

Watch the full Honest Trailers Commentary on YouTube

Reception[]

Honest Trailers - Mission: Impossible - Fallout has a 98.3% approval rating from YouTube viewers. Egotastic declared this was a "pretty fantastic" Honest Trailer. Geek Tyrant wrote the Honest Trailer was "pretty damn funny" and "one of the best ones that they’ve released in awhile." CinemaBlend wrote "This Honest Trailer makes a great and hilarious point about how convoluted and complicated the canon of the Mission: Impossible franchise can be. Audiences are asked to remember and juggle a lot. I think it gets overlooked because of how watchable and entertaining these films are, especially Fallout, but it's a salient point." In the same article, CinemaBlend highlighted the Honest Trailer's observation about the audience's complicity in Tom Cruise's on-set injury, writing, "we keep flocking to these movies as Tom Cruise risks life and limb for our entertainment." Screen Rant wrote "The trailer makes fun of the movie for bringing back apparently forgettable characters such as Solomon Lane and Ilsa Faust, while also critiquing the film for featuring a villainous plan similar to Thanos' in Avengers: Infinity War. Screen Junkies also admits that Fallout is one of the best action movies of the year, but jokes that the series needs to stop before it kills Cruise."

The Playlist was more critical in its appraisal of the Honest Trailer. The site suggested "not all of their humor works or feels like it even belongs in this decade. Elsewhere in the Honest Trailer, there’s some below-the-belt jokes, as they don’t shy away from using the plutonium cores as insinuations to balls." The Playlist also wrote that the "Honest Trailer sounds more like it’s slyly praising the blockbuster more than cynically picking and tearing it to shreds like most Honest Trailers do." In the same article, The Playlist suggested "Honest Trailers could’ve gone for some more precise jabs at the film rather than inadvertently jabbing at others."

Production credits[]

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Voiceover Narration by Jon Bailey

Title Design: Robert Holtby

Written by Spencer Gilbert, Dan Murrell, Joe Starr, Lon Harris

Produced by Spencer Gilbert, Dan Murrell, Joe Starr & Max Dionne

Edited by Kevin Williamsen and TJ Nordaker

Assistant Editor: Emin Bassavand

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