Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Has Its Moments, But Ultimately Is a Letdown

With Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, the franchise has finally made good on its title and accomplished the impossible. That mission, which we’re forced to accept, is watching a new installment that doesn’t live up to the high standards of the usually stellar series. The Final Reckoning has all the elements of a great Mission: Impossible movie—action set pieces beyond your wildest dreams, world-saving stakes, all with a globe-trotting, ticking clock narrative—but never the right balance to make them work together as they have in the past. What we get instead is an overly long, plot-heavy movie that builds to two of the best set pieces the franchise has seen. Those scenes almost make you forget about everything else, but not quite. That’s because the “everything else” is a lot. With a runtime close to three hours, The Final Reckoning attempts to act as a direct sequel to 2023’s Dead Reckoning, a finale to the entire 25-year-old film franchise, and a drawn-out explainer of how ... Read full article.