Action-Adventure Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning/The Final Reckoning

[Gee]

 

[DyeLorean]

 

[Ninjablade]

That's insane. Oh, to have that kind of money and time.

 

[#root]

Did someone convince them that the reason the last movie didn’t do well was that it was too difficult to understand because holy **** .

I thoroughly enjoyed this even though it doesn’t come together quite as well as the previous few. The action sequences were terrific especially the biplane sequence which was breathtaking. The whole entire cast was terrific as well including actors in smaller roles like Angela Bassett and Nick Offerman or the whole entire submarine crew. I desperately need more of Pom Klementieff kicking ass and being a badass on my screen. I don’t think I’ve seen her in anything outside of the Guardians movies but she was great in Dead Reckoning and electric in this. I wish we could’ve had Rebecca Ferguson in this though because certain moments would’ve worked better if Ilsa was there. But alas.

Anyway I look forward to seeing if they decide to make another one though I’m satisfied if they decide that this truly is the end. They’ve had a great run.

 

[The Caped Knight]

 

[AndrewGilkison]

The movie really took a long time to get going. I noticed both in this and in Dead Reckoning, there was a lot of wooden, stilted line readings. And I know the MCU was popular for a long time, but did we really need all those callbacks and tie ins to the previous films? I didn't need to know that the evil AI came from the rabbits foot from MI3. Not sure that really adds anything to either film.

I think my favorite scene in the whole movie is Ethan breaking into the downed sub from the opening of Dead Reckoning. It had that eerie haunted house atmosphere. And the propeller plane chase was straight out of an Indiana Jones movie.

Its weird how the plot is basically just Tom Cruise Prevents Judgement Day. The Entity was literally going full Skynet on the entire world.