Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
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Does it wrap up the whole deal pretty well? I'm happy that some of you guys have been saying it's lighter on action, and it sounds more of the spy stuff, like the first one, is prevalent. I still think the first one's my favorite, but I would be happy with something to top it as a final film for the series.
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I believe so. How old is he now? I mean he's got to be getting up there towards 70.
Knowing Hollywood, they'll probably reboot it with somebody else as the main star and a few years because you can't leave any IP sitting on the shelf for long.
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Cruise is 62. Considering the lukewarm reaction to the last one, and this one is even longer, slower, and more expensive, I think its out of his hands if he didn't want this to be the last one he starred in. Hell, Pegg has even aged out to tech support mentor.
All I have to say is Ferguson had better be alive, and her 'death' in the last one tricking The Entity / covering for her Dune shooting schedule. Atwell is actually older than Ferguson (and thus slightly less creepy an age gap than Cruise), but there was no buildup of Atwell for her to be a permanent replacement for Ferguson.
All I have to say is Ferguson had better be alive, and her 'death' in the last one tricking The Entity / covering for her Dune shooting schedule. Atwell is actually older than Ferguson (and thus slightly less creepy an age gap than Cruise), but there was no buildup of Atwell for her to be a permanent replacement for Ferguson.
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I figured Atwell was going to replace him, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Pretty solid end to the series.
Bringing back the buy from the vault was pretty cool, he still had the knife, lol.Luther's gone
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Part 1 (rewatched it last night) of 2:42 long. This new one is 2:49. So about 5 1/2 hours between the 2 movies.
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cruise is 5years old than jon voight was in mission impossible 1
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pretty good, not amazing. Not as good as Fallout unfortunately which still has the best scenes between the Paris halo drop, the bathroom fight, and everything in the helicopter final chase. Henry Cavill was also perfectly cast there, Gabriel is fine in this movie but never rises to that level of bad guy.
This one has quite a few clunky slow scenes, especially the underwater ones. I guess James Cameron is still the only one who can do underwater great. The movie is wildly too long, 2h49m and could have easily cut 20-30m out and tightened it up a bit.
The AI enemy still suffers the same problem from 7, its just a McGuffin which doesn't feel like it has any purpose or agency other than to move the story along. You could have replaced it with a Bond villain and probably would have been more fun. I wish we'd get really good AI enemies, even OG Terminator did it better with Skynet and its motivations.
If you are a fan of the series worth a watch in theaters, looks great in IMAX. Rewatch Mission Impossible 1 at the least, it has a LOT of callbacks to that movie. Way more than I expected. I rewatched all the movies again right before this (skipped 2) and you can feel the love for fans in this one.
This one has quite a few clunky slow scenes, especially the underwater ones. I guess James Cameron is still the only one who can do underwater great. The movie is wildly too long, 2h49m and could have easily cut 20-30m out and tightened it up a bit.
The AI enemy still suffers the same problem from 7, its just a McGuffin which doesn't feel like it has any purpose or agency other than to move the story along. You could have replaced it with a Bond villain and probably would have been more fun. I wish we'd get really good AI enemies, even OG Terminator did it better with Skynet and its motivations.
If you are a fan of the series worth a watch in theaters, looks great in IMAX. Rewatch Mission Impossible 1 at the least, it has a LOT of callbacks to that movie. Way more than I expected. I rewatched all the movies again right before this (skipped 2) and you can feel the love for fans in this one.
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Lets add some real perspective to this.this looked more like a youtube review on mission impossible retrospective with many 20minutes of flashback and to my earlier point of
jon voight at 57
tom cruise at 62, does the most running in any movie
and in a speedo
Yes, that is the female actress(Emmanuelle Béart) with Tom Cruise in that first picture.
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I'm telling you, it's all those Thetans!this looked more like a youtube review on mission impossible retrospective with many 20minutes of flashback and to my earlier point of
jon voight at 57
tom cruise at 62, does the most running in any movie
and in a speedo
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I liked it for what it was, but didn't love it. Honestly, I enjoyed Dead Reckoning a little more. The Airplane sequence was decent, though. A lot of this movie just crawled on, while tossing random member berries at the audience. It was much slower than previous MI's, and not nearly enough action for a 2 hour, 49 minute movie.