Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise close out the Mission Impossible series with this epic film in which Ethan Hunt and his team look to stop the AI villain of the last film from starting a global catastrophe, Spoilers below: I do not think this film is the best of the series, due to a murky antagonist, but it is definitely a worthy entry with the sum of the parts exceeding the whole. I have decided to describe the pros and cons of the film and then will give a quick overall review at the end. Things I liked: McQuarrie gives Luther gets a heroic send off. First he creates the poison pill to disable The Entity and then disarms a bomb in his final moments. The dialogue between Ethan and Luther is touching, and while the situation is overly contrived (and I doubt Gabriel would say really use a bomb that would destroy London when he needs Ethan-who is in London-alive). It is evident from Luther’s IV that he is possibly dying already (did creating the poison pill som...