Tom Cruise’s commitment to cinema is undeniably front and center for all his projects, for this installment of Mission: Impossible especially, it’s like he’s sending a love letter to his fans.
This isn’t the best MI movie on any front. The story isn’t as compelling as previous scripts and, even though THE stunt in this movie can be detrimental to your cardiovascular health, for me at least, there are previous stunts that are worse. In a sequel part of a franchise it’s hard not to compare. Since this is allegedly the last in the Tom Cruise era, I chose to enjoy this experience as a nice wrap up to a 30 year story, and I feel like it works.
I can’t help but feel slightly whelmed by the action. The action was awesome and put a lot smiles on my face, however I can’t help but feel like that should be the standard, so my emotions are so confused because I loved the movie but with the juxtaposition of the other movies, I have to admit that THE scene here wasn’t as good. That doesn’t nearly suggest that I wasn’t wowed in general in an Imax freaking theatre to see this movie.
The cast is great, with a finale movie there isn’t much new blood, so seeing the character arcs crescendo here are great! I did have some issue with Esai Morales as Gabriel, he really was just a mustache twirling bad guy that did lack some depth, but he was entertaining enough to me, and Morales performance was evil, and I just love purely bad people as antagonists.
Tom Cruise, keep doing what you’re doing. You know he had final approval for basically anything and everything, from the editing to the musical score, but all of it was fantastic. I do wish the first act wasn’t literal exposition city, but they weren’t full on flashbacks so it was enough to not ruin the cinematic experience for me.
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning may underwhelm some cinema pundits, but this is the definition of a popcorn film and so fun to watch.
🌟🌟🌟🌟1/2
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