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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is 3 hours of nonsense that will make you wish for the world to end! BRIAN VINER'S blistering review of Tom Cruise trying to save the planet in his underpants
The premise can be summed up in less than five seconds. Ethan Hunt of the Impossible Missions Force, played by Cruise for the eighth time, saves the world. Again.
In this noble endeavour Hunt is assisted by old chums Benji (Simon Pegg) and Luther (Ving Rhames), as well as Grace, the reformed pickpocket from last time, nicely played by Hayley Atwell. Yet he's the one taking the real risks, including an Arctic Ocean dive so perilous that he is told his body might go into spasm and he will incur severe mental confusion, rather like me after 170 minutes of this nonsense. There's some of that here, and evocative flashbacks to past glories, but the film drags terribly in parts, and could lose half an hour just by cutting most of the lines telling us, in about 100 different ways, that the planet stands on the edge of a precipice.
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