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* The scene where Benji rebukes Egorov with the term "private" might seem odd at first, given that the man had previously announced himself as a major. However, it is normally rare for a man of Egorov's status to be relegated to simply scanning personnel entering the Kremlin, even with the current state of the Russian military. Being given to such a post possibly implies Egorov is either on a punishment or was demoted. Benji's statement was actually an ''insult'' directed against Egorov.
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* The scene where Benji rebukes Egorov with the term "private" might seem odd at first, given that the man had previously announced himself as a major. However, it is normally rare for a man of Egorov's status to be relegated to simply scanning personnel entering the Kremlin, even with the current state of the Russian military. Being given to such a post possibly implies Egorov is either on a punishment or was demoted. Benji's statement was actually an ''insult'' directed against Egorov.Egorov.
* The IMF disarms the warhead in the nick of time, but A) If NORAD was doing its job, it would have been tracking the missile from its launch, and the Pentagon would have been forced to conclude it was a genuine Russian strike, thus precipitating a legitimate war in part because B) it still caused damage to the US by punching a hole through the Transamerica Pyramid, which almost certainly caused some casualties.
* The IMF disarms the warhead in the nick of time, but A) If NORAD was doing its job, it would have been tracking the missile from its launch, and the Pentagon would have been forced to conclude it was a genuine Russian strike, thus precipitating a legitimate war in part because B) it still caused damage to the US by punching a hole through the Transamerica Pyramid, which almost certainly caused some casualties.
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* When Ethan sketches Hendricks on his palm, Brandt identifies him immediately, and the Secretary is able to give Ethan a USB flash drive form a container of about a half dozen that has video files of Hendricks on it along with the intelligence about Cobalt's known associate Wistrom being on his way to meeting Moreau at the Burj Khalifa. This means that IMF already had a short list of candidates for Cobalt's true identity and was prepared to set up the next operation against Cobalt as soon as the Kremlin team confirmed which suspect it was. Presumably each of the other flash drives in the Secretary's case had background on the other suspects along with the same intel on the upcoming Burj Khalifa meeting.
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* When Ethan sketches Hendricks on his palm, Brandt identifies him immediately, and the Secretary is able to give Ethan a USB flash drive form a container of about a half dozen that has video files of Hendricks on it along with the intelligence about Cobalt's known associate Wistrom being on his way to meeting Moreau at the Burj Khalifa. This means that IMF already had a short list of candidates for Cobalt's true identity and was prepared to set up the next operation against Cobalt as soon as the Kremlin team confirmed which suspect it was. Presumably each of the other flash drives in the Secretary's case had background on the other suspects along with the same intel on the upcoming Burj Khalifa meeting.meeting.
* The scene where Benji rebukes Egorov with the term "private" might seem odd at first, given that the man had previously announced himself as a major. However, it is normally rare for a man of Egorov's status to be relegated to simply scanning personnel entering the Kremlin, even with the current state of the Russian military. Being given to such a post possibly implies Egorov is either on a punishment or was demoted. Benji's statement was actually an ''insult'' directed against Egorov.
* The scene where Benji rebukes Egorov with the term "private" might seem odd at first, given that the man had previously announced himself as a major. However, it is normally rare for a man of Egorov's status to be relegated to simply scanning personnel entering the Kremlin, even with the current state of the Russian military. Being given to such a post possibly implies Egorov is either on a punishment or was demoted. Benji's statement was actually an ''insult'' directed against Egorov.
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* FridgeBrilliance: Venus is an even more appropriate name for Carter in ''Ghost Protocol'' than you might think at first. It is a planet thought to look beautiful, until people got a closer look/got through the clouds, then it became deadly.
* They wind up printing out the real nuclear codes and handing them to the bad guy, who immediately has them verified and then puts them in a briefcase. But if they had rigged up the printer with disappearing ink, or if they loaded the printer with some sort of self-destructive paper, then the codes would have eliminated themselves while the bad guy was getting away. Presumably they didn't have any self-destructive paper or disappearing ink in the train car, just the scrambling breifcase.
* FridgeBrilliance: When Ethan sketches Hendricks on his palm, Brandt identifies him immediately and the Secretary is able to give Ethan a USB flash drive form a container of about a half dozen that has video files of Hendricks on it along with the intelligence about Cobalt's known associate Wistrom being on his way to meeting Moreau at the Burj Khalifa. This means that IMF already had a short list of candidates for Cobalt's true identity and was prepared to set up the next operation against Cobalt as soon as the Kremlin team confirmed which suspect it was. Presumably each of the other flash drives in the Secretary's case had background on the other suspects along with the same intel on the upcoming Burj Khalifa meeting.
* They wind up printing out the real nuclear codes and handing them to the bad guy, who immediately has them verified and then puts them in a briefcase. But if they had rigged up the printer with disappearing ink, or if they loaded the printer with some sort of self-destructive paper, then the codes would have eliminated themselves while the bad guy was getting away. Presumably they didn't have any self-destructive paper or disappearing ink in the train car, just the scrambling breifcase.
* FridgeBrilliance: When Ethan sketches Hendricks on his palm, Brandt identifies him immediately and the Secretary is able to give Ethan a USB flash drive form a container of about a half dozen that has video files of Hendricks on it along with the intelligence about Cobalt's known associate Wistrom being on his way to meeting Moreau at the Burj Khalifa. This means that IMF already had a short list of candidates for Cobalt's true identity and was prepared to set up the next operation against Cobalt as soon as the Kremlin team confirmed which suspect it was. Presumably each of the other flash drives in the Secretary's case had background on the other suspects along with the same intel on the upcoming Burj Khalifa meeting.
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* FridgeBrilliance: Venus is an even more appropriate name for Carter in ''Ghost Protocol'' than you might think at first. It is a planet thought to look beautiful, until people got a closer look/got through the clouds, then it became deadly.
*They wind up printing out the real nuclear codes and handing them to the bad guy, who immediately has them verified and then puts them in a briefcase. But if they had rigged up the printer with disappearing ink, or if they loaded the printer with some sort of self-destructive paper, then the codes would have eliminated themselves while the bad guy was getting away. Presumably they didn't have any self-destructive paper or disappearing ink in the train car, just the scrambling breifcase.
* FridgeBrilliance:When Ethan sketches Hendricks on his palm, Brandt identifies him immediately immediately, and the Secretary is able to give Ethan a USB flash drive form a container of about a half dozen that has video files of Hendricks on it along with the intelligence about Cobalt's known associate Wistrom being on his way to meeting Moreau at the Burj Khalifa. This means that IMF already had a short list of candidates for Cobalt's true identity and was prepared to set up the next operation against Cobalt as soon as the Kremlin team confirmed which suspect it was. Presumably each of the other flash drives in the Secretary's case had background on the other suspects along with the same intel on the upcoming Burj Khalifa meeting.
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* They wind up printing out the real nuclear codes and handing them to the bad guy, who immediately has them verified and then puts them in a briefcase. But if they had rigged up the printer with disappearing ink, or if they loaded the printer with some sort of self-destructive paper, then the codes would have eliminated themselves while the bad guy was getting away.
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* They wind up printing out the real nuclear codes and handing them to the bad guy, who immediately has them verified and then puts them in a briefcase. But if they had rigged up the printer with disappearing ink, or if they loaded the printer with some sort of self-destructive paper, then the codes would have eliminated themselves while the bad guy was getting away. Presumably they didn't have any self-destructive paper or disappearing ink in the train car, just the scrambling breifcase.
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* They wind up printing out the real nuclear codes and handing them to the bad guy, who immediately has them verified and then puts them in a briefcase. But if they had rigged up the printer with disappearing ink, or if they loaded the printer with some sort of self-destructive paper, then the codes would have eliminated themselves while the bad guy was getting away.
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* They wind up printing out the real nuclear codes and handing them to the bad guy, who immediately has them verified and then puts them in a briefcase. But if they had rigged up the printer with disappearing ink, or if they loaded the printer with some sort of self-destructive paper, then the codes would have eliminated themselves while the bad guy was getting away.away.
* FridgeBrilliance: When Ethan sketches Hendricks on his palm, Brandt identifies him immediately and the Secretary is able to give Ethan a USB flash drive form a container of about a half dozen that has video files of Hendricks on it along with the intelligence about Cobalt's known associate Wistrom being on his way to meeting Moreau at the Burj Khalifa. This means that IMF already had a short list of candidates for Cobalt's true identity and was prepared to set up the next operation against Cobalt as soon as the Kremlin team confirmed which suspect it was. Presumably each of the other flash drives in the Secretary's case had background on the other suspects along with the same intel on the upcoming Burj Khalifa meeting.
* FridgeBrilliance: When Ethan sketches Hendricks on his palm, Brandt identifies him immediately and the Secretary is able to give Ethan a USB flash drive form a container of about a half dozen that has video files of Hendricks on it along with the intelligence about Cobalt's known associate Wistrom being on his way to meeting Moreau at the Burj Khalifa. This means that IMF already had a short list of candidates for Cobalt's true identity and was prepared to set up the next operation against Cobalt as soon as the Kremlin team confirmed which suspect it was. Presumably each of the other flash drives in the Secretary's case had background on the other suspects along with the same intel on the upcoming Burj Khalifa meeting.
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* At the end of the film, why didn't the new iPhones that Ethan handed to his team self-destruct? Don't all mission briefings do that?
* Why didn't [[spoiler:Hendricks toss the suitcase off the ledge and keep fighting Hunt to buy time?]]
** Because [[spoiler:he knows that he can at least theoretically match Ethan in a straight fight, but if he tosses the briefcase he can't be sure that Ethan won't find some way down to the case that Hendricks won't be able to follow (or at least, he won't be able to follow and be in a condition to stop Ethan afterwards)]].
* Why didn't [[spoiler:Hendricks toss the suitcase off the ledge and keep fighting Hunt to buy time?]]
** Because [[spoiler:he knows that he can at least theoretically match Ethan in a straight fight, but if he tosses the briefcase he can't be sure that Ethan won't find some way down to the case that Hendricks won't be able to follow (or at least, he won't be able to follow and be in a condition to stop Ethan afterwards)]].
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* FridgeBrilliance: Venus is an even more appropriate name for Carter in ''Ghost Protocol'' than you might think at first. It is a planet thought to look beautiful, until people got a closer look/got through the clouds, then it became deadly.
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* FridgeBrilliance: Venus is an even more appropriate name for Carter in ''Ghost Protocol'' than you might think at first. It is a planet thought to look beautiful, until people got a closer look/got through the clouds, then it became deadly.deadly.
* They wind up printing out the real nuclear codes and handing them to the bad guy, who immediately has them verified and then puts them in a briefcase. But if they had rigged up the printer with disappearing ink, or if they loaded the printer with some sort of self-destructive paper, then the codes would have eliminated themselves while the bad guy was getting away.
* They wind up printing out the real nuclear codes and handing them to the bad guy, who immediately has them verified and then puts them in a briefcase. But if they had rigged up the printer with disappearing ink, or if they loaded the printer with some sort of self-destructive paper, then the codes would have eliminated themselves while the bad guy was getting away.
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** Because [[spoiler:he knows that he can at least theoretically match Ethan in a straight fight, but if he tosses the briefcase he can't be sure that Ethan won't find some way down to the case that Hendricks won't be able to follow (or at least, he won't be able to follow and be in a condition to stop Ethan afterwards)]].
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** They hadn't listen to the mission statements by the time the credit rolled.
* why didn't [[spoiler:Hendricks toss the suitcase off the ledge and keep fighting Hunt to buy time?]]
** [[spoiler:One assumes he was protecting it with his body, so it wouldn't be too damaged to work.]]
** [[spoiler:He was also beat up pretty badly at the time as well, he might not have been thinking clearly.]]
* why didn't [[spoiler:Hendricks toss the suitcase off the ledge and keep fighting Hunt to buy time?]]
** [[spoiler:One assumes he was protecting it with his body, so it wouldn't be too damaged to work.]]
** [[spoiler:He was also beat up pretty badly at the time as well, he might not have been thinking clearly.]]
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** [[spoiler:One assumes he was protecting it with his body, so it wouldn't be too damaged to work.]]
** [[spoiler:He was also beat up pretty badly at the time as well, he might not have been thinking clearly.]]
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* At the end of the film, why didn't the new iPhones that Ethan handed to his team self-destruct? Don't all mission briefings do that?
** They hadn't listen to the mission statements by the time the credit rolled.
* why didn't [[spoiler:Hendricks toss the suitcase off the ledge and keep fighting Hunt to buy time?]]
** [[spoiler:One assumes he was protecting it with his body, so it wouldn't be too damaged to work.]]
** [[spoiler:He was also beat up pretty badly at the time as well, he might not have been thinking clearly.]]
** They hadn't listen to the mission statements by the time the credit rolled.
* why didn't [[spoiler:Hendricks toss the suitcase off the ledge and keep fighting Hunt to buy time?]]
** [[spoiler:One assumes he was protecting it with his body, so it wouldn't be too damaged to work.]]
** [[spoiler:He was also beat up pretty badly at the time as well, he might not have been thinking clearly.]]
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* When Benji is cutting out the window in the Burj, the laser cutter sparks, startling Benji slightly. This foreshadows Ethan's use of the cutter while bracing himself between two ledges on the 'outside' of the Burj, where it sparks again, startling him and causing him to fall.
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* When Benji is cutting out the window in the Burj, the laser cutter sparks, startling Benji slightly. This foreshadows Ethan's use of the cutter while bracing himself between two ledges on the 'outside' of the Burj, where it sparks again, startling him and causing him to fall.fall.
* FridgeBrilliance: Venus is an even more appropriate name for Carter in ''Ghost Protocol'' than you might think at first. It is a planet thought to look beautiful, until people got a closer look/got through the clouds, then it became deadly.
* FridgeBrilliance: Venus is an even more appropriate name for Carter in ''Ghost Protocol'' than you might think at first. It is a planet thought to look beautiful, until people got a closer look/got through the clouds, then it became deadly.
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* It's obvious on rewatch that when Hunt and Brandt meet in Moscow, Brandt is shocked and trying to hide it, not meeting Hunt's eyes. When Hunt finally addresses him directly and asks, "Analyst, huh?", Brandt goes straight into "If you're implying that I made a bad call...", his guilty conscience jumping to the conclusion that Hunt somehow knows who he was before he was an analyst and blames him for his wife's death. It's a nice peek into Brandt's head before we even know the story.
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* It's obvious on rewatch that when Hunt and Brandt meet in Moscow, Brandt is shocked and trying to hide it, not meeting Hunt's eyes. When Hunt finally addresses him directly and asks, "Analyst, huh?", apropos of nothing, Brandt goes straight into "If you're implying that I made a bad call...", his guilty conscience jumping to the conclusion that Hunt somehow knows who he was before he was an analyst and blames him for his wife's death. It's a nice peek into Brandt's head before we even know the story.
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* It's obvious on rewatch that when Hunt and Brandt meet in Moscow, Brandt is shocked and trying to hide it, not meeting Hunt's eyes. When Hunt finally addresses him directly and asks, "Analyst, huh?", Brandt goes straight into "If you're implying that I made a bad call...", his guilty conscience jumping straight to the conclusion that Hunt somehow knows who he was before he was an analyst and blames him for his wife's death. It's a nice peek into Brandt's head before we even know the story.
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* It's obvious on rewatch that when Hunt and Brandt meet in Moscow, Brandt is shocked and trying to hide it, not meeting Hunt's eyes. When Hunt finally addresses him directly and asks, "Analyst, huh?", Brandt goes straight into "If you're implying that I made a bad call...", his guilty conscience jumping straight to the conclusion that Hunt somehow knows who he was before he was an analyst and blames him for his wife's death. It's a nice peek into Brandt's head before we even know the story.
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* It's obvious on rewatch that when Hunt and Brandt meet in Moscow, Brandt is shocked and trying to hide it, not meeting Hunt's eyes. When Hunt finally addresses him directly and asks, "Analyst, huh?", Brandt goes straight into "If you're implying that I made a bad call...", his guilty conscience jumping straight to the conclusion that Hunt somehow knows who he was before he was an analyst and blames him for his wife's death. It's a nice peek into Brandt's head before we even know the story.
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* When Benji is cutting out the window in the Burj, the laser cutter sparks, startling Benji slightly. This foreshadows Ethan's use of the cutter while bracing himself between two ledges on the 'outside' of the Burj, where it sparks again, startling him and causing him to fall.
