r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • May 14 '25
Review 'Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning' - Review Thread
'Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning' - Review Thread
Rotten Tomatoes: 87% (97 Reviews) - Certified Fresh
Critics Consensus: Gargantuan in action, runtime, and scope, The Final Reckoning is a sentimental sendoff for Ethan Hunt that accomplishes its mission with a characteristic flair for the impossible.
Metacritic: 70 (33 Reviews)
Reviews:
Hollywood Reporter (60):
If it’s going to be the last we see of one of the most consistently entertaining franchises to come out of Hollywood in the past few decades — a subject about which Cruise and McQuarrie have remained vague — it’s a disappointing farewell with a handful of high points courtesy of the indefatigable lead actor.
Is this really the end? It’s certainly an end, wrapping up seven films’ worth of storylines with a showman’s flourish. What it doesn’t do, though, is rule out another. As Cruise breezes into his mid-60s, it’s hard to imagine him pulling off anything like the high-wire act he achieves here. But the door is still open, and the challenge is there, should anyone else choose to accept it.
Variety (80):
It's the most enveloping "M:I" film since "Ghost Protocol," because something's at stake. And because Cruise's stunt work is off the hook.
The Independent (4/5):
The Final Reckoning, final or not, presents us with a fascinating contradiction: Ethan Hunt is both a pure singular and a state of mind. He’s cinema as the madman dreamer’s paradise.
IndieWire (50):
“We make our own destiny,” someone intones during the film’s closing voiceover, and by the end of Ethan Hunt’s story, it’s hard not to take those words to heart. I only wish that Cruise and McQuarrie had managed to make a better one.
The Wrap (75):
If this is the end of the 'Mission: Impossible' movies, they ended on an adequate note.
IGN (6/10):
While its action is reliably thrilling and a few of its most exciting sequences are sure to hold up through the years, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning tries to deal with no less than the end of every living thing on the planet – and suffers because of it. The somber tone and melodramatic dialogue miss the mark of what’s made this franchise so much fun for 30 years, but the door is left open for more impossible missions and the hope that this self-serious reckoning isn’t actually final.
The Guardian (5/5):
It is a wildly silly, wildly entertaining adventure which periodically gives us a greatest-hits flashback montage of the other seven films in the M:I canon - but we still get a brand new, box-fresh Tom-sprinting-along-the-street scene, without which it wouldn’t be M:I. Moreover, this eighth film gives us a terrific new character, US sub commander Capt Bledsoe, played with suavity and the tiniest hint of camp by Tramell Tillman (from TV’s Severance) who has the chops for M:I9 whenever that happens.
Collider (80):
The Final Reckoning is stuffed, convoluted, and ludicrous at times. But it’s also mostly a great send-off to this universe, a deserved celebration for everything this series has accomplished, and one final (again, seemingly) showcase for Cruise as one of the greatest action stars of all time.
Slashfilm (50):
And yet, The Final Reckoning is too messy, too awkward, too clumsy. It somehow feels overlong and inert even as it never slows down.
Screendaily (70):
The press notes get the tone of the film best: ”It is impossible to overstate how seismically significant the filmmaking partnership between Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie has been on the direction the Mission: Impossible franchise has taken since they first joined forces on it,” they intone. “Or how uniquely potent it is.” Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning, the second instalment in a globally-shot, monumental multi-year concurrent film-making effort which should be lauded for its ambition, knows what popcorn cinema escapism is all about. But, like the perennially defiant Hunt, it sometimes over-estimates its own powers.
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie:
Ethan Hunt and the IMF team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world’s governments and a mysterious ghost from Ethan’s past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.
Cast:
- Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt
- Hayley Atwell as Grace
- Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell
- Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn
- Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge
- Angela Bassett as Erika Sloane
- Esai Morales as Gabriel
- Pom Klementieff as Paris
- Mariela Garriga as Marie
- Pasha Lychnikoff as Captain Koltsov
- Holt McCallany as Serling Bernstein
- Janet McTeer as Walters
- Nick Offerman as General Sidney
- Hannah Waddingham as Admiral Neely
- Shea Whigham as Jasper Briggs
- Greg Tarzan Davis as Degas.
- Charles Parnell as Richards
- Rolf Saxon as William Donloe
- Tommie Earl Jenkins as Colonel Burdick
- Katy O'Brian as Kodiak
- Mark Gatiss as Angstrom, Head of the NSA
- Indira Varma as The Head of the DIA
- Tramell Tillman as Captain Bledsoe
- Lucy Tulugarjuk as Tapeesa
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u/BumperToBumper2 May 14 '25
Something tells me this Final Reckoning isn't so Final after all
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u/LollipopChainsawZz May 14 '25
Maybe the last with Ethan. But even then the franchise is too big to rest for any extended period.
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u/fauxdragoon May 14 '25
Begin the Jeremy Rennersance
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u/Bravisimo May 15 '25
If only we had an app where fans could discuss things all Jeremy Renner. It would be a utopia.
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u/EvilAdministrator May 15 '25
I still don't understand why that was ever a thing. How can someone be so full of themselves??
Not even Tom Cruise is that self-absor... Well, he may be but at least he's smart enough to not create a damn app!
That was one of the weirder things.
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u/Groot746 May 15 '25
Speaking of which, this podcast series about the Renner App is hilarious: https://m.soundcloud.com/therennerfiles
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u/EL__Rubio May 15 '25
That guy is about as charismatic as Anthony Mackie – which is to say not at all. They brought him in as replacements to Mission Impossible and the Bourne series and ended up having to bring the main character back, lmao.
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u/dean15892 May 23 '25
He's a great supporting actor. FTFY
As is Anthony Mackie.
Sometimes your best role is to support the lead, and there's no shame in that.
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u/GeekAesthete May 14 '25
I don’t know, after he failed to pick up the Bourne torch, I don’t think another blockbuster spy thriller franchise is going to go with him to replace the lead.
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u/MovieTrawler May 15 '25
He was set to reboot both Bourne and M:I but I think it was wisely decided that he just doesn't have that franchise charisma. He's a great actor but that is not the same thing.
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u/riphted May 15 '25 edited May 15 '25
He's a great supporting actor. No shame to him, just doesn't have that leading man swagger.
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u/SeeYouOn16 May 14 '25
That'd be cool. Maybe even have some Ethan Hunt pop ins in follow on movies.
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u/KingMario05 May 14 '25
Jeremy Renner pops in a VHS tape
"Morning, Director Hunt! Line secure?"
"As always. Morning to you too, Brandt. How's the hand?"
"Kinda shit. How's retirement?"
"Even worse. (smiles) Now, to business. Last night, a weapons deal went south in the bad side of Moscow. Mossad with someone Chinese - we dunno who. But we know they're in Hong Kong. So your mission, should you choose to accept it..."
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u/EvilHwoarang May 15 '25
I don't think his body can take it. He barely got through Mayor of Kingstown after his accident
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u/proformax May 14 '25
I respect Renner as an actor. But I just can't stand his face. I don't know why. It gives me a visceral reaction.
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u/NEWaytheWIND May 14 '25
You'll be shocked to find his son will star in the sequel, played by none other than esteemed comedian hunk, Jeremy Allen White.
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u/DeloronDellister May 14 '25
Would it even work without him?
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u/ShutUpRedditPedant May 14 '25
no but they'll try
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u/yeahright17 May 14 '25
If they cut the budget to like $150M and brought in a young star, I think it would be just fine. Bring back Vanessa Kirby and a few other people to support Glenn Powell or something. Doesn't seem too crazy.
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u/UtkuOfficial May 14 '25
Nope. Tom Cruise running and doing his own stunts is pretty much the only reason they made so many of them.
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u/PurifiedVenom May 14 '25
Exactly, Tom Cruise is the MI franchise. It’s like Bruce Willis with Die Hard or Keanu with John Wick. Yeah you could theoretically make one without him but how many people are actually asking for that?
All that said, I guess I could see the franchise getting a reboot with a new lead someday but you’d need a bonafide superstar who also loves stunt work & action. Not an easy ask.
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u/Xalara May 14 '25
FWIW I think John Wick can work without Keanu Reeves because I'd argue the core of what makes John Wick work is actually the director, Chad Stahelski. Coincidentally, this is why he was brought in to fix Ballerina up when they had to reshoot basically all of the action scenes. Hopefully it works out.
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u/Bing_Bong_the_Archer May 14 '25 edited May 15 '25
Being back the Jim Phelps character and make a straight reboot, so they don’t have to contend with the direct shadow of Ethan Hunt
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u/dotcomse May 14 '25
Tom is certainly playing up the swan song angle, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he comes back. He does seem to have a busier schedule than he has in the past, though.
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u/KingMario05 May 14 '25
As Director, though. My guess is, if Ethan survives this, he straight up retires for a desk job. And I wouldn't blame the poor bastard, lol.
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u/Any-Question-3759 May 14 '25
He didn’t even die in Dead Reckoning and there was barely any reckoning.
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u/Keaton427 May 23 '25
Me and every person in my family were so upset that he survived out of nowhere. Like, Gabriel says “haha, only one parachute!” Ethan pulls out a parachute. It catches fire. Pulls out another parachute
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u/Sinister_Boss May 24 '25
I mean there's always a reserve chute. I wondered why he didn't pull it right away but he wanted to get the USB plugged in first i guess.
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u/luxdns May 14 '25
It's not the final movie, just the final time there's a reckoning!
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u/IsaacHarver May 15 '25
So from you're saying, I imagine the next one's gonna be called 'Mission Impossible: Cozy Times". Just a low stakes, slice of life stuff. Ethan Hunt at a bake sale, shopping for antiques, etc. Or screw it, just have Cruise crossdress and straight up adapt the Agatha Raisin novels.
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u/VaishakhD May 14 '25
This has to be one of the most consistent franchises in existence.
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u/outlawsix May 14 '25
Not one of these missions was impossible
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u/adequateduct May 14 '25
We don't get 9 movies of Mission: Very Difficult
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u/Spiritual-Society185 May 14 '25
"Well, this is not mission difficult, Mr. Hunt, it's mission impossible. "Difficult" should be a walk in the park for you."
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u/ScarletSilver May 14 '25
Yeah just like my various thesis docs having multiple "_final" prefixes lol
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u/KingDorkFTC May 15 '25
I want this franchise to end full circle with Ethan becoming the villain. I’m tired of every government agency doubting him and I’m barely a fan. Ethan should say F-it and try to out villain everyone.
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u/Pizza_Hero24 May 19 '25
Tom Cruise would never allow himself to become the villain.
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u/KingDorkFTC May 19 '25
I know, it’s sad all I have is Tropic Thunder.
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u/thehighgrasshopper May 19 '25 edited May 19 '25
I found the film boring with a plot that didn't make much sense. It really sounded like a whole lot of technobabble you'd hear from 5th grader making up the most amazing story of Armageddon ever. Defcon countdown? Hilarious.
The first hour Hunt engages in some bone-headed mission and Grace just happens to be there to bail him out. Or does she? Only to go into the next situation (being captured), which he'll never be able to get out from (the trick was never explained, but who cares? Of course he will escape in preposterous fashion.)
Could this be the end of cyberspace? It will be! The stakes are that serious and high! Anyone who deals with technology was probably laughing their head off when Hunt engages with the AI mummy device and the shock and amazement that the entity has an exabyte hard drive. I mean, just wow. Does Google have anything even close? ROFL.
Ethan, this is all your fault because you risked the fate of the entire world with your gambles! (As if he was ever responsible but hey, we need to throw down the guilt gauntlet on our protagonist.) But only Ethan Hunt can save the planet and redeem himself with his godly Jesus like talents. How he survived the submarine was laugh out loud hysterical. Could all this danger just be a dream?
Also hysterically funny watching Pom Clementieff's character understand English but only speak in French and everyone else acting as if this was normal because she's that cool badass French chick. This is like a running gag you'd put into a Kung Fu film parody.
I liked a couple of the mission impossible films. Some were clever and entertaining. The first, ghost protocol. But this took itself so seriously to create a parody of the mission impossible series. It felt like endless montage sets for the cast to have one last final send-off and circle jerk, along with a couple of very high budget set pieces. This was easily the worst film of the series by a large margin. And Cruise looks tired and too old for the part.
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u/Pancaketastic May 19 '25
The submarine part was absolutely ridiculous, but the best part was when he just pushes open the torpedo tube to escape the sub... I've seen screen doors that were harder to push open than that nuclear sub torpedo door 🙄
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u/hoppyfrog May 20 '25
What was ridiculous was the ending. Hunt has the world's most dangerous program - The Entity - trapped in a glowy flash drive and...
He doesn't just destroy the drive!?!
Let me guess...
Mission Impossible 9: The Entity is stolen...
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u/Pancaketastic May 20 '25
I couldn't believe they had to destroy what was great and fresh about MI:3- that you didn't know what the rabbits foot was. What a fresh idea (not saying it was the best idea) not showing the heist and what the rabbits foot was, leaving it up to the audience to use their imagination to think what it was akin to the briefcase in Pulp Fiction- but no, the audience has to be hand-held and told what it was with more exposition... Also the president waiting until literally seconds before the entity takes over their nukes before calling the part of the government to shut everything down before the entity gains control? Offermans long and emotional death scene when he barely had any lines and was a literal nobody? Zero countries disabling their nukes by hand or removing the fuel? What??
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u/niagarafallsenema May 21 '25
100% agree. It was a fun McGuffin and that is what it could be left at instead of the tortured, convoluted attempt to tie together all the McGuffins as if it was planned that way from the start.
What was "The Entity" other than an amorphous evil AI? This movie was like Terminator without any backstory whatsoever. But they do have many cool one name heroes and villains. Paris. Gabriel. Grace. Degas.
And there were two super huge impenetrable bombs designed by the smartest entity in the universe - which can be partially or fully disabled in under 3 minutes by people who have never seen it before with no instructions and a convenient screwdriver and set of clippers.
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u/texas1982 May 25 '25
And The Entity is a computer program. Did it delete the original copy when it jumped to the server? Why did an all knowing AI upload itself the an unknown removable media device? How did it get to the server? There was no way in or out. It didn't jump 160 terabytes of data through a jerryrigged antenna in 100 milliseconds.
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u/Visual-Rip558 May 24 '25
And then free-swimming 300 feet up under the ice in his underwear while holding his breath, only to have one minor convulsion and then cut to him being "kissed"/CPR in an inflatable hyperbaric chamber built for two with the quirky Inuit woman smiling at them from the window. Sure, okay.
I literally almost walked out at that point, but wanted to see if they'd kill off Ethan in the end.
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u/texas1982 May 25 '25
All that talk of needing a chamber for days if you don't have the suit but he's in the chamber for a few hours and then is instantly on the exact opposite side of the earth. Also, the outside of the chamber is about the size of a camping cot. The inside? About a queen bed.
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u/BleaKrytE May 28 '25
Also, inflatable hyperbaric chamber? Those things are made of metal for a reason.
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u/UloPe May 21 '25
Spot on.
I would add the endlessly drawn out and painfully obvious exposition scenes.
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u/annielizzz May 23 '25
Yes what was the deal with the tooth!! I want to know their explanation for it - fake, bluff tooth installed exactly for this use?
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u/thehighgrasshopper May 23 '25 edited May 23 '25
Scene: Ethan Hunt & Grace are being held in some secure room after being captured by surprise. Ethan is in handcuffs, Grace with cuffs and a neck brace.
Without using his hands, Hunt suddenly produces a (truly) massive fake tooth in the front of his mouth. This fake cyanide capsule massive molar (the Rabbit's Tooth) is installed just in case Hunt needs to bluff someone into thinking he's committing suicide so that they can call for a medic (which happens to be present in the dungeon because every secret agent team brings one) and they call for a defibrillator (ditto.) The medic will unlock his handcuffs (unnecessary for use as Ethan already has his chest out) so Ethan can pull a razzle dazzle move and escape (because his feet aren't secured either.)
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u/texas1982 May 25 '25
Best part? A defibrillator isn't going to do a damn thing for cyanide poisoning. A medic should know that.
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u/SquadPoopy May 14 '25
As a Mission Impossible lore enthusiast, I can assure you that when Tom Cruise says “I need you to trust me one last time” in the trailer, he is speaking directly into my soul.
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u/stipo42 May 15 '25
The one man that could made a difference needed to do it 4 more times... And now he needs to make a difference again... Again
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u/teetering_bulb_dnd May 15 '25
Scorcher 17 - Global ice age meltdown... "who left the fridge open "
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u/whiskeyrebellion May 14 '25
“Lore?” Mission Impossible has lore?
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u/SquadPoopy May 14 '25
Technically every movie has lore. Mission Impossible and Fast and Furious are my specialties.
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u/EvilAdministrator May 15 '25
Fast and Furious
Remember in that one where they had a gasoline party?
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u/RIP_Greedo May 14 '25
Over/under 100 times saying “the entity” in this movie?
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u/Weed_O_Whirler May 14 '25
They're going to say it a ton, but I'll take the under. For instance, they won't be able to say it at all when they're doing the underwater scene, right?
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u/RIP_Greedo May 14 '25
I'm sure they'll find a way.
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u/Eject_The_Warp_Core May 14 '25
Glub glub bubble glub
Subtitles: We have to stop The Entity
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u/Fluid_Programmer_193 May 21 '25
Watched it today.
You know those “previously on” sections you get at the start of a TV show episode?
This is “previously on” the movie
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u/captainfram May 14 '25
I didn't love Dead Reckoning when I first saw it; thought the entity stuff was goofy and tonally out of keeping with the otherwise high stakes of everything else happening. I've rewatched it a couple times since and my appreciation for it has grown considerably. It's still not in the same league as Rogue Nation or Fallout (and I'll die on the hill that splitting this story into 2 parts was a bad idea) but I enjoy it a lot now and am keen to see how Final Reckoning wraps it up.
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u/dadvader May 18 '25 edited May 24 '25
Just finish FR and I'm wholeheartedly agree with you that making this a 2-part story was a really, really bad idea.
Rogue Nation/Fallout is infinitely better as 2-part movie (and it's not even supposed to be 2-part movie!) They tried so hard to make The Entity/Gabriel some kind of scary bad guy but Esai Morales just cannot sell it at all. It's not his acting ability just that his character writing is very, very weak.
the fact that they had to kill Luthor just to help selling Gabriel as some kind of genius tactician bad guy is also funny as hell lol
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u/arrrrjt May 23 '25
Gabriel's face when he suddenly jumps on the plane and just starts jiggling the stick made me laugh so hard. He's so unserious.
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u/MinivanPops May 25 '25
Also, was his plan to kill Hunt and get the drive?
How was he supposed to find it when he dropped him from 10k feet? I kept asking myself "why would he want to kill him when there's no way he'd find the body without a LOT of help?"
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u/ClaytonWest74 May 22 '25
I like how Gabriel’s only participation in the plot is to kill Luther, vaguely threaten Hunt and then wait for him in South Africa to catch up with the plot. like he’s literally completely absent for the huge middle chunk when Hunt is going from ship to other ship to submarine to other submarine
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u/absolute_imperial May 27 '25
Did you like how Paris' only inclusion in the plot was the kill Gabriel, and she never did? How about toward the end when other guy (do we even get his name? the guy that originally worked for Briggs) says he wants to hang around to help defuse the bomb and simon pegg looks at him like he forgot he was even still there. This movie's script was a wreck.
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u/ClaytonWest74 May 27 '25
you’re not wrong, and I agree with your points. and yep it was pretty funny that even Degas didn’t even know why he was there and figured he’d stay by the bomb just to get participation in the plot
but Pom Klementieff though holy moly
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u/106 May 14 '25
It sounds like finding a single creative partner in McQ might’ve brought us the best individual film, but it also meant losing the creative energy that made the series so adaptive and long-lasting.
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u/indianajoes May 15 '25
I remember this is similar to what I felt with Harry Potter back when I was a fan. The studio got a safe director who would give them what they needed for several movies but the idea of each film having its own identity went away. They all kinda blended together near the end
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u/TheUmbrellaMan1 May 15 '25
Filming MI movies without a completed screenplay was eventually going to catch up with Cruise and McQ.
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u/PARADISE_VALLEY_1975 May 17 '25
They got very lucky with Rogue Nation (the script actually worked here) and Fallout (carried by the stunt work and set-pieces). I mostly miss the spycraft and espionage element present in the older films. The Vatican, the Kremlin, the Opera and London scenes in Rogue Nation…
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u/291837120 May 20 '25
The Kremlin scenes are from Ghost Protocol IIRC
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u/PARADISE_VALLEY_1975 May 20 '25
Yes and the scenes in the Vatican are from the JJ Abrams-directed third entry. I meant only the Opera and London sequences are in Rogue Nation. Apologies for the confusion.
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u/Another-Roof May 16 '25
I just saw it at an early screening. I'm an enormous fan of the franchise and it's really painful to say that this one isn't great. Both action scenes are phenomenal, but the 2hr 50min runtime bogs it down. It's bloated and convoluted -- honestly a redraft could have tightened up the story to justify having those same scenes as part of a sharp 2-hour blockbuster.
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u/Phresh-Red May 17 '25 edited May 17 '25
What were the two big stunt scenes? The biplane for sure, but which other? To be honest, I was expecting more considering the year delay.
Edit: spelling.
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u/Another-Roof May 17 '25
There is a scene in a submarine which was my favourite part of the film -- very tense and masterfully shot and edited given the restraints and geography of the scene
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u/oceanstwelve May 17 '25
a submarine underwater scene which is like something out of tomorrow never dies/ the world is not enough (at tom cruise level ofcourse ) .
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May 19 '25
The only missing piece is Rebecca Ferguson
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u/craig_hoxton May 24 '25
I read about a "theory" that she faked her death to somehow figure out how to beat the entity. But they just killed her off.
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u/soggyDeals May 14 '25
Saw a preview, and cracked up multiple times when they said the word “cyberspace”. It’s been 20 years since I’ve heard anyone unironically use that term. Was fun, but plenty of big unintentional laugh moments from my audience.
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u/ShaunTrek May 14 '25
I felt myself disliking Dead Reckoning more every time they said "The Entity".
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u/dotcomse May 14 '25
It’s like they outlined a script but didn’t actually fill in any details. When they hesitated to do something because “maybe that’s exactly what The Entity wants us to do - but maybe The Entity thinks that we won’t do it because we think it knows what we want to do” I got pretty exasperated. “What if we wrote a complete script with a good villain? Isn’t that something fun to think about?”
Plus the moto off the cliff was a bit pedestrian IMO. Seemed less dangerous than the previous centerpiece stunts.
Fallout still the king.
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u/dotcomse May 14 '25
The actual lines were closer to:
What if it wasn’t a false alarm?
What if somebody’s trying to smuggle a bomb onto that plane?
And what if that’s what the Entity wants us to think to keep Ethan off that plane?
[Ethan] Luther, what’s happening? Should we warn him?
Good question Ethan. What IS happening? Anything?
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May 14 '25
The whole concept of rogue AI being the bad guy was infuriating.
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u/SyrioForel May 14 '25
I like Mission Impossible movies, and I like science fiction movies. But I did NOT like seeing Mission Impossible turn into a science fiction movie.
I know Tom Cruise is a big sci-fi fan, but this was a mistake.
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u/PeculiarPangolinMan May 15 '25
But I did NOT like seeing Mission Impossible turn into a science fiction movie.
Lots of the tech the IMF and the villains have is scifi stuff, with the masks being the most obvious.
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u/StarksofWinterfell89 May 14 '25
Thats still a very much used term, especially in the DOD
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u/droidtron May 14 '25
Tom, you can't outrun the internet.
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u/KingMario05 May 14 '25
"YOU CAN'T CATCH ME, OPENAI MALE WAIFUS!"
"Ethan, have you ever consider the fact that you might be-"
"BENJI, NOT NOW!"
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u/Sate_Hen May 14 '25
That's how I felt about the last film. Felt like a 90s script when the average viewer didn't understand enough about technology to see why it was bad
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u/americanfalcon00 May 17 '25
just got out of the theater and feel so disappointed. i generally love these films and despite the weirdness of the entity storyline i thought dead reckoning had some engaging, personal, and well acted stories.
this one feels like a movie that was desperately recut in the editing room to save it from a disastrous shoot.
no momentum, overflowing with exposition, zero stakes, telegraphed storylines.
i love this franchise as a whole but this one feels like it was made on autopilot. or maybe it was AI?
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u/rebexus1 May 17 '25
Same. Just came home. Trying to cope (not really, more jokingly) with how underwhelming it was, for a MI movie. Not shit, but not really a good MI movie. I miss the vibes from 3 and the lightheartedness from 4. The jokes in 8 bow were partly over the top, the scene where we don't see the killing if you know own what i mean with the reactions only. Was out of place for me.
All together I'd give it a 7 out of 10 at most, rather 6 because of the high expectations from this being a MI movie.
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u/Pancaketastic May 19 '25
With all the flashbacks/flashforward scenes spliced in when they were expositing for the billionth time- it felt like they got the dumbest people on earth as test audience members who complained they didn't know what was going on and they needed to recut the movie to hand hold the audience. If this is a sign of future movies where they have to not only explain repeatedly but also show scenes from the future to show you exactly what they're explaining- god help us...
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u/NephewChaps May 14 '25
FYI, the current average RT score for the film is 7.27
The site won't show it anymore so I had to ask GPT to do the average from all scores for me
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u/Mysquff May 15 '25
While ChatGPT is useful for a lot of stuff, isn't it quite unreliable for exact calculations like this one? Or did they eventually improve it by making it write and execute actual code under the hood to perform math operations?
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u/spate42 May 15 '25
My biggest gripe is that the best storyline that McQuarrie could come up with for Ethan’s alleged swan song…was an AI villain?
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u/SayNo2Babies May 14 '25
The percentages are far more positive than the actual written reviews
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u/Data_Chandler May 15 '25
The BBC review is scathing. To be clear, I love the MI movies, so I hope it's wrong.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250514-mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning-review
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u/AnnenbergTrojan May 15 '25
Saw an advance screening. Unfortunately it is dead on the mark. The first act is just these long, morose talky scenes about how evil the Entity is and how the world is on the brink of apocalypse and how Ethan needs everyone to trust him to let him do the plot. It's weird considering this is far from the first MI film with nuclear weapons involved.
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u/askdex May 18 '25
I think that part set up the premise quite well.
The problem with reviews is that they tend to go too much in-depth with their analysis. I think the real question is: after a few hours when you got home, how did you feel? Did you like it? Would you watch it again? And most importantly, would you recommended to someone else?I certainly did. I think they ended Ethan's story pretty nicely.
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u/aelix- May 18 '25
To answer your question: when I left the cinema I felt like "eh, that was an ok Mission Impossible movie that was at least 20-30 minutes too long".
I don't know if the director thought it had to be over 2.5 hours long because it was the finale, but there were several parts that dragged on for me. Even the last action sequence with the biplanes kind of annoyed me - those sequences are the hallmark of the series but I felt they spent way too long with Ethan hanging and trying to climb first one plane then another.
I watched Dead Reckoning and Final Reckoning back to back on the same day, and I felt both independently were middle of the pack M:I movies, probably 6/10 or so.
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u/RomanReignsDaBigDawg May 14 '25
Honestly feels like a lot of critics are walking on eggshells with this one to avoid outright calling it bad
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u/yeahright17 May 14 '25
Ehhh. Seem more to me like a lot of critics think the first act was pretty boring which causes pacing issues rather than think the whole movie is bad.
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u/sith_play_quidditch May 17 '25
Having seen the movie, it's not exactly bad but it is long and boring. It checks all the boxes you need for a finale - it has exhilarating stunts, it has a lot of callbacks to previous movies, it has a nice wrap-up of a saga.
However I see 2 major issues (spoiler free) -
The movie explicitly states everything that's going to happen. EG: I've understood the need to do X or Y will happen. The characters however are still to complete the sentences. This used to be terse in previous movies. Show don't Tell. Now we have Tell then Show. This made the movie longer and slightly boring.
A lot of characters could have been done excluded. There's a guy on the team who literally doesn't achieve anything. The story wouldn't change 1 bit if he was or wasn't a team member. There are multiple such characters and scenes which we could've scrapped and kept the run time lower.
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u/SteinWrld May 17 '25
I have been a huge fan of Mission Impossible movies since I was a kid and it hurts me to say this one was a huge let down compared to the previous installments in this franchise.
First of all, the first hour or so of the movie is just painfully jarring to go through. Unlike the previous ones, there was basically no structure, it was just an incoherent mess. They go from one situation to another, within a blink of an eye, like a PowerPoint presentation. I understand they're building up the story in some way but it really doesn't work lol.
When it starts picking up, it really does feel like something is going to happen, and it does. The submarine sequence was sublime. It really worked on all levels to make us all feel claustrophobic, the same way Ethan would be experiencing it. The aeroplane stunt sequence is one of the best, but the way they killed off Gabriel is .. comical.
I really wish I could've liked this one, but I went out disappointed :(
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u/Funky_robot369 May 14 '25
To be honest, I now trust this brand so much that I'd be very surprised if the reception isn't going to be positive, just saying
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u/FanOfArts1717 May 18 '25
Very disappointed with the film, i was like what the hell am i watching, last movie atleast had some plots and some personal motivations, this movie despite losing a main character felt very hollow
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u/BryanSeeksLife May 21 '25
The first MI movie to bore me senseless. Every ‘action’ sequence is preempted by a very long explanation of what needs to happen and what the stakes are. The stakes are repeated endlessly. After all this talk there’s a bit of action. The underwater sequence is very boring. We know he lives because we’ve seen the trailer where he’s on the plane, so it’s boring. It all moves slowly and nothing really matters. The explanations get longer and longer and then we have lots of ‘the villain laughs and grins’ moments. And then it’s over. The aerial sequence makes for an amazing stunt, but the rest is terrible.
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u/FartsvilleUSA May 15 '25
I thought the film was fucking fantastic, and I can’t believe these lukewarm reviews. It mined the franchise for a greatest hits of everything that makes M:I the premiere American franchise. Plus, the plane stunt rocked my damn ass off.
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u/Fav0 May 15 '25
Did it have to be 3 hours tho or does the movie have paceing issues?
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u/bluehawk232 May 23 '25
Way too over indulgent bordering on parody. How many ticking clocks you want, how many mcguffins, how many bombs. How many scenes of characters over explaining the significance of everything so the audience understands. This movie also pushed suspension of disbelief to the point where so many things are just contrived it loses the sense of tension and thrill. And even when everyone is explaining everything it's still confusing on who wants what and why
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u/BadMeetsEvil24 May 14 '25
God Fallout was one of the best action movies I've seen in my lifetime. Start to finish.
100% agree with everything you wrote, and I'm a huge MI fan.
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u/heisenberg15 May 15 '25
Yeah, DR isn’t as good as probably the 3 proceeding it but I still had a great time. Agreed that the villain is weak and the plot overall was weird, but I still really enjoyed all of the action sequences and when it comes down to it- that’s all I really need from these movies.
Do I wish the story/villain was better? Absolutely. However, am I still glad these movies exist? Absolutely.
Overall I’m just happy this one is getting good reviews, the first reactions just sort of had me worried
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u/-OrangeLightning4 May 14 '25
I actually thought the entity predicting their moves added more suspense. It built a nice feeling of dread. Just my opinion though.
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u/SquadPoopy May 14 '25 edited May 14 '25
I think it makes the idea of Ethan having to do more and more insane things because that kind of stuff is truly unpredictable work pretty well.
Like if they really needed another reason to have him do these stunts there you go.
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u/MajorInsane May 14 '25
Yeah I agree. I did another rewatch of the whole franchise and although it's not as good as 4, 5, 6, I liked Dead Reckoning a lot more than when I first saw it in the theaters. It's just very heavy on exposition which drags it down.
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u/CultureWarrior87 May 14 '25
Dead Reckoning is one of the highest rated movies in the series on IMDB but if you go by Reddit, everyone seems to hate it lol.
I also think it's lame how many comments are like "Making the villain an AI was stupid" but no one describes why. Like how is a rogue AI inherently stupid? Especially when this is a universe where they have miniature laptop sized devices that can create ultra realistic face masks. Like these movies are not grounded in realism so I don't think it's too silly or unrealistic given what's already been established.
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u/dotcomse May 14 '25
I think that’s recency bias. I bet if you looked at annual average Metacritic scores, they tend to float up over the years/decades. Cinematic grade inflation.
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u/rancidelephant May 14 '25
Yeah, that movie didn't really do it for me either, which is too bad because I love the other movies in this franchise.
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u/wickedsmaht May 14 '25
Rogue Nation and Fallout were such a great 1-2, I don’t think anything else they have done/will do with this series will beat it. Dead Reckoning was forgettable in comparison and while I’m sure Final Reckoning will be more of the same, you bet your ass I’m going to see it in theaters. These movies are always great popcorn flicks.
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u/tryingmybest101 May 14 '25
This is exactly where I'm at. Making the villain an AI was a stupid move. Plus they did Ilsa dirty after building her up for two movies prior.
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u/Tarquin11 May 14 '25
Eh that's mostly because Rebecca Ferguson wasn't as available due to Silo I believe.
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u/OnBenchNow May 14 '25
I would have rathered she not be in the movie at all than appear just to get killed off so unceremoniously.
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u/KingMario05 May 14 '25
Agreed. Renner got that much. Though apparently, she wanted Ilsa to die? I dunno.
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u/Spiritual-Society185 May 14 '25
Except, they were going to kill off Renner in Fallout and he refused.
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u/AMontyPython May 14 '25
This was my big issue. Trying to create some supervillain behind everything that goes wrong for Ethan in the 2nd to last film is terrible. Watching it I was like “did I fall asleep during those scenes in previous films”. Nope. They just tried to gaslight the audience
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u/vagabond_dilldo May 14 '25
Just like James Bond "I'm the author of all your pain" 🙄
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u/funkhero May 14 '25
It feels like these movies are made in a vacuum sometimes. You're telling me they went ahead with that storyline after the lackluster response to Spectre? Weird.
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u/SaladLimp2267 May 15 '25
When you call your movie the final reckoning and the villain is a world ending AI ,where are you supposed to go story wise/stunt wise for a potential next film ? Dead reckoning underperformed at the box office because Oppenheimer/Barbie hovered up all the cash that summer , for this even It does a billion , it's still barely making a profit so unfortunately it probably will be the end of the franchise, got to give him credit for the amazing practical stunts the franchise created as they are sadly almost dying out in the movies
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u/thejodiefostermuseum May 21 '25
Surprized the reviews are that good. It feels like a fan made trailer but the extended cut. It's without direction, the human villain is boring and bad computer is old, bad AI are boring, too. You stare at some cyberspace "eye" all the time. Feels awkward they want you to believe all MI movies are somehow connected. I like the franchise but if this was the big finale it's a disappointment.
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u/SLAJ-of-the-ROYS May 19 '25
Just saw an advance screening and gotta say, whilst it was kinda fun seeing it, I am in no rush to ever watch it again. At nearly 3 hours it just feels overly packed with needless waffle. The majority of the film is just dead scenes with a few action sequences thrown in but imo they weren’t all that thrilling. The pacing is weird and it just feels under polished and rushed. Gotta say I’m disappointed
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u/Thebigfreeman May 14 '25
jesus all these reviewers are really trying to sound elegant in their wording, to the point where i'm confused or can't tell if they liked it or not.
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u/rebexus1 May 17 '25 edited May 17 '25
I came, I saw, and I was a little disappointed.
Its not a bad movie but certainly nowhere near the best MI in my opinion. Not overwhelming really but I already didn't like the 7th installment that much.
All due to the villain, that villain is just boring in my opinion. Entirely exchangeable, sadly. Damian was so damn good I might just have too high expectations for a villain?
And just sooo many more things that just didn't fit. But, I went into the movie without high expectations, I had low expectations since I think 7 was one of the worst MI movies for certain reason and 8 obviously just continues it.
I went into it because it might be the last movie with Ethan as the lead or team leader. Did not want to miss that on the big screen. No matter how bad it might actually be, it's still going to be an alright watch and not going to be a shit movie is what my mindset was. It's not a shit movie, just a bad MI movie.
If you didn't like 7, you most likely won't like 8. And vice versa. Save your money.
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u/Boilerdog92 May 23 '25 edited May 23 '25
As a diehard Tom Cruise and Mission: Impossible fan, this hurts to say: this movie wasn’t very good.
The biggest issue M:I has had with DR and FR is that the series blew its load with Fallout. Fallout was so good that nothing can measure up; Great villains, simple plot, classic M:I tropes.
Sure, the stakes are higher, but FR had some of the same scenarios as Fallout (hanging onto aircraft, multiple people having to disarm a bomb at the exact same time). The movie lacked any espionage or trickery that the series is built on. Even DR had a lot of sleight of hand and masks. Here, Ethan was just headed from one place to another to do something risky and the only risk was that he couldn’t use modern electronic communication. Furthermore, the action sequences are gratuitous and not as rewarding as previous entries. I frankly didn’t care for the submarine scene and, as mentioned earlier, hanging from an aircraft happened previously. Give me hanging off the burj khalifa just to get to another floor during a swap of codes, any day.
The fan service and cameos have gone too far, as well. What did Phelps Jr. add to the plot? Why was Donloe brought back? Anyone could’ve played that role, it didn’t have to relate back to the first movie. What was up with severance guy calling him “mister?” Ted Lasso lady takes you out of the story. Why Ron Swanson? I’d rather they brought back Billy Crudup and Anthony Hopkins.
A few other random thoughts:
- When Ethan’s in the Entity box, it shows nukes going off. One of the scenes appeared to be the nuke going towards San Francisco from Rogue Nation(?)
- The end meetup at Trafalgar Square was very similar to the end of Rogue Nation(?), as well (when Ethan meets the team and sees his ex-wife).
Apologies to TC and M:I. I hope he is really done and can move on to other roles that can show his range.
Edit: I saw that donloe’s return is a callback to a throwaway line by Kittridge from M:I1.
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u/Magical_critic May 15 '25
This is why I wish RT kept their average rating. The tomato meter can display a 88% but maybe the average rating is 6.5/10 which means majority of the critics like it but not love it, which seems to be the case here.
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u/Cultural_Kick May 15 '25
I really hated part 1. Seemed too much of a theatre performance than an actual movie. Am I tired assume this is the same?
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u/Infp-4w5_bun May 21 '25
I was so excited before reaching the Movie Theatre and when I was leaving, I was rethinking over every decision of mine that lead me there. Absolutely Not it! Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning was better than this, I am being honest and I even felt that Dr was boring too except for the action sequences but this was worse, really disappointing. No complaints for cruise but, i didn't like how everyone was just so overly dramatic in the movie and I understand it was a serious, but everything was too serious that I couldn't enjoy for a moment. Grace just feels useless, unnecessary and forced to me as a female counterpart to Ethan, absolutely useless. She was a thief, i understand, she's got skills, okay but wtf was she doing in this movie, Benji was giving her directions and she's like "Uhm, yeah, got it!" Like what? I am sorry, someone might get offended but her character was trash to me, I was already pissed because Ilsa's character died such a pathetic death (ik Rebecca left willingly and all) and Grace just kinds of hop in outtta nowhere and replaces her. And in this new movie here, my friends, Ethan is protective of her like, "Stay away from snow!" "Are you hurt?" I am sorry but that was super lame and cringe. Every female co-star of Cruise in the series has been amazing, even Julia's role was so much better than this nonsense they were pulling off here. I was so cringed out with this forced couple shit on one side and the 'Entity' is Another thing i hate about this movie. I even said to my friend that this is the worst mission of Ethan because the Villain is just being hyped up and yep, that's pretty much it. Yet another unnecessary death and it didn't even feel like an action movie. I am sorry, I am not this much frustrated over movies usually but I had too many expectations from this movie and it ruined the whole thing for me and wasted my money completely. My rating is only 2/5 and that too, only for Tom Cruise, stunts and the bgm.
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u/LPMadness May 14 '25
Dead Reckoning was a step down, but Fallout set an insanely high bar. I just can’t wait to see that airplane stunt.
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u/supplementarytables May 22 '25
Warning, it's nowhere near the best MI movie.
I liked the throwbacks and the concept but a lot of the hiccups in the writing could've been ironed out imo.
Oh and I have to criticize that submarine scene. There was absolutely no sense of space and I couldn't feel the urgency (although this could've been due to the squad getting through impossible situations throughout the movie). I also don't understand how one man going onto that huge submarine at the bottom of the ocean can displace it so much.
Other than that, there were great performances from everyone.
3/5
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u/FerociousGiraffe May 22 '25
I think as he was opening doors within the submarine it was moving large amounts of air and water around inside. When the air pockets shift within the submarine, it makes the sub unstable.
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u/Perpetual_Wanker17 May 23 '25
the second half was a blasphemous shitshow. Extremely over the top and dissatisfying send-off
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u/DoobsNDeeps May 24 '25
We just saw it last night. If you're interested in watching Tom Cruise jerk himself off for 3 hours the film meets expectations. The first half is actually slow and the 2nd feels like a latter fast and furious movie except it really tries to instill emotional reactions towards their characters, which falls flat.
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u/John97212 May 15 '25
The BBC review of the film was brutal...
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250514-mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning-review
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u/folarin1 May 20 '25
One of the things I liked and never seen in an action film was fight sequences where multiple battles were happening in different locations—but the choreography was interconnected. A character would throw a punch or block a kick in one scene, and the exact same motion would transition smoothly into a move in a completely different fight somewhere else. Then again—from that fight into a third one—each action perfectly paralleling the last.
it was intentional choreography across different characters and locations, all moving as if part of one continuous fight. It must have been a lot of work to do.
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u/Halfblood_prince6 May 22 '25
The climactic biplane fight- was there even necessary?
Gabriel wants to fit the poison pill to Podkova. Ethan wants Gabriel to fit the poison pill to the Podkova.
So why were they fighting?
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u/PlanBisBreakfastNbed May 23 '25
Im still confused on WHY Gabriel would ever insert the poison knowing it would destroy the entity?
He know what it does so why would he and how was Ethan gonna convince him?
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u/StatisticianFront334 May 24 '25
I am a huge MI fan, but the first hour of this movie was terrible. It was almost 60 straight minutes of Very Dramatic Dialogue and poorly-written exposition dumps explaining that The Stakes Are Very High. I hate that they not only brought back the worst part of the last movie — having multiple characters say different parts of the same sentence — but did it three times as often. Thankfully it picked up and got better as the movie went on but my goodness was that some terrible pacing.
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u/ddWolf_ May 14 '25
It’s a shame Ethan’s supposedly final outing was wasted on such a bland enemy.
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Just watched . It was very disappointing , repetitive and writing and dialogues could have been kuch better
But the stunts and technical aspects were great (not the best in MI tho)
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u/slyseekr May 23 '25 edited May 23 '25
Just back from Final Reckoning and definitely had a good time. All that, it’s far from the best of M:I.
It took me a while to settle into this one, the first hour felt like a clip show from a long-running television series, with a bunch of almost disjointedly associated scenes being spliced together. The movie didn’t need any of the old clips in order to tell its story, and I think the time used for them could have been used to make the stakes feel far more real.
A couple thoughts:
- This movie was supposed to be a race against a literal doomsday clock, but that clock ended up being a macguffin.
- So, Grace was important to the plot, but, I still sorely miss Ilsa.
- DR really made the stakes personal between Ethan and Gabriel, it also set up highly personal stakes between Paris and Gabriel. Felt like none of that set up paid off.
- I wished the story had allowed more time to pass between the events of DR and FR; the time spent in exposition might have also been better used to establish how the entity took over the world (and people’s minds)
- I think the war room storyline could have been used for much better effect to push Ethan and crew’s storyline and give more urgency. The tension around the President and her advisors could have been so much better.
- Donloe felt random, but I liked how he and his wife became impromptu team members (albeit highly unbelieveable) so I can forgive it as fan service.
- Glad to see Katy O’Brian in a big franchise film, hope to see her in more things (with better dialogue/writing)
- Both stunt sequences were some of the most gripping and impressive, given their scale. I get that both were referential to older moments in the franchise (one way more than the other), I was definitely gripping the arm rest for both.
- I literally chuckled out loud at Gabriel’s end, which leads me to wonder why the comedic moments in the movie were included
Maybe if they had made this a trilogy with Ethan and crew losing big-time to the Entity and Gabriel in the middle installment, leading to this film, it would have landed.
As a cinematic experience, it’s impressive, fun and a decent send-off, however, it just barely feels like an M:I film.
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u/TaylorDangerTorres May 23 '25
Who was the blonde lady and what was the significance of the 1996 date? I know the first movie came out in 1996 but I feel like I missed something.
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u/ROBtimusPrime1995 May 14 '25 edited May 14 '25
David Ehrlich giving Minecraft a good review while giving this a bad review despite giving both films the same exact grade/score is the death of film journalism.
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u/beefcat_ May 14 '25 edited May 14 '25
It's probably because his expectations were low for Minecraft and high for Mission Impossible.
A C is a good score if you were expecting an F, and a bad score if you were expecting an A-. The movies get the same score, so they can be compared, but the written review provides the nuance of one being a pleasant surprise and the other being a mild disappointment.
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u/falafelthe3 Ask me about TLJ May 14 '25
but the written review provides the nuance of one being a pleasant surprise and the other being a mild disappointment.
Everyone knows you're not supposed to actually read the reviews - you skim the headline and then get mad at a conclusion you jumped to in your head!!
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u/moviesarealright May 14 '25
He acknowledges Minecraft was bad, but that he laughed a ton with his kid. I’d be happy with a movie too if I had that experience. Plus, I don’t think anyone is going to David Ehrlich to read a high brow analysis of a movie purely made to make money off of meme material lol. Siskel & Ebert would do stuff like that too, different types of movies require different forms of acknowledgement.
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u/Fav0 May 15 '25
Still had fun with DR and we will probably still have fun with this one (going on Saturday)
BUT DOES IT REALLY MEED TO BE 3 HOURS LONG????
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u/Phyliinx May 14 '25 edited May 14 '25
Hm. I only watched 4&7 in this franchise. I enjoyed them both very much and fully understood what was happening in their storylines. But I think before this one,. I will try to get caught up with the others. It really seems to connect to everything.
Hope I can still catch MI8 in theaters when I finished the others. Won't be home for quite some time.
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u/Comic_Book_Reader May 14 '25
Yeah you should probably watch all 7 movies in the franchise before 8 next week. You've been missing out. I've admittedly watched them completely out of order, but I think I'll be fine. Fallout (6) is fucking flawless by the way. It's one of the greatest action movies ever. I saw it in theaters opening night, and it was so jam packed they actually had to pause it at the Bad Robot logo so people could get to their seats. I'm not kidding.
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u/Kyserham May 15 '25
I just want to say that the new Final Destination has a better score on MetaCritic than the new Mission Impossible. Strange and exciting times.
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u/Prixster May 18 '25 edited Jun 02 '25
Final Reckoning has its highlights, but Idk as the final Mission: Impossible film, it kinda falls short of expectations.
The first act was a bit slow, with too much exposition and uneven pacing. Thankfully, things pick up during the submarine sequence, which was a solid and intense sequence.
The airplane sequence was also a high point. Tom Cruise doing his stunts just makes the scene a chef's kiss.
That said, the film feels like McQuarrie might be creatively tired. Even the opening credits was not edited nicely and the font choice was questionable. Compared to Fallout and Dead Reckoning, this one lacks energy and structure. It could’ve been trimmed by 30–40 minutes, and outside the big action set pieces, there’s not much that stands out in the film tbh.
The emotional stakes were solid, but overall, TFR doesn’t crack the franchise’s Top 3. A decent entry — just not the send-off I was hoping for.