- Director: Christopher McQuarrie
- Screenplay: Christopher McQuarrie, Erik Jendresen
- Cast: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Angela Bassett, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman, Hannah Waddingham
- Cinematography: Fraser Taggart
- Editing: Eddie Hamilton
- Score: Max Aruj, Alfie Godfrey
- Genre: Action spy
- Runtime: 170 minutes
At the beginning of ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning‘, box office saviour himself Tom Cruise pops up in a quick 1 minute clip thanking fans for coming to watch his new movie at the cinema (a moot point if you’re pirating it off 123movies). And although this isn’t the strongest installment in the series, it’s worth experiencing on the biggest screen you can acquire.
Continuing on from the previous film, the objective – to seek control of ‘the Entity’, an artificial intelligence that has world-ending capabilities if it falls into the wrong hands. Due to a lack of decent antagonists, this harmful A.I. is the deadliest threat facing Ethan Hunt’s team, rendering the eighth ‘Mission: Impossible‘ a soulless ultimate outing. The constant chatter of MacGuffins made me want to shout “less talking, more blowing up stuff!”.
There’s plenty of diverting sequences; director Christopher McQuarrie knows how to make a action-packed spectacle. Ethan Hunt faces danger at two extremes; clinging onto a chartered plane miles above the ground and venturing to the ocean floor to investigate an abandoned submarine. Watching all this water doesn’t help if you’re needing the loo by this stage. Bad news – you’re only about halfway through.
Touting this as the ‘final reckoning’ is bold for a major money-making franchise. I could earn some dough myself from betting this isn’t the end for Ethan and the gang but we’ll see. It’s remarkable that Tom Cruise still does his own stunts at the age of 62 but perhaps it’s time to put him and his puffy face out to pasture.
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My rating: 6 / 10
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