Get the latest gossip
‘Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning’ Review: Tom Cruise Flies High in a Thrillingly Doom-Laden Series Grand Finale
A thrillingly doom-laden series finale, it's the most enveloping "M:I" film since "Ghost Protocol," because something's at stake.
The sequences that I remember most fondly from the series have a nimble sense of play — Cruise hanging from a wire in that breathless heist in the first “Mission: Impossible,” his vertiginous suction-cup scaling of the Burj Khalifa in “Ghost Protocol,” all the trap-door tuxedo-party deceptions. (Just think of such empty vessels of end-of-the-world action as “Armageddon” or “X-Men: Apocalypse.”) But in “The Final Reckoning,” Cruise and his “M:I” partner and director, Christopher McQuarrie, ratchet up the doomsday fervor with enough conviction — and obsession — to carry you along on hairpin turns of suspense. After a while, Ethan comes in from the cold, appearing at a meeting led by the U.S. president, Erika Sloane (Angela Bassett), as the IMF-head-turned-CIA suit Eugene Kittridge (Henry Czerny) and other dour brass look on disapprovingly.
Or read this on Variety
