Ethan Hunt has one final mission to stop the Entity from taking over the world. The film stars Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Holt McCallany, Nick Offerman, Janet McTeer, Hannah Waddingham, Tramell Tillman, Greg Tarzan Davis, and Angela Bassett.

I enjoyed the movie. I thought it was a good fitting end to the franchise. I did think it was a little too long. It’s almost a three-hour movie not to mention the half hour of commercials beforehand. The movie clocks in around two hours and forty-nine minutes. There were some sequences that seemed unnecessarily long. If they were a little shorter it would have made the film feel less tedious at times. The cast does a great job. The ensemble play their parts well. At times it felt like the movie catered to Tom Cruise when it came to extended action sequences. Dead Reckoning also felt that way at times.

It has a solid story, and it has good action sequences. It could have benefitted from a slightly shorter runtime. It is nice to have a summer blockbuster that is a nice, clean, and intellectual spy film. The movie does not rely heavily on CGI or special effects the way a lot of films do. There has always been a nice sophistication level with the Mission Impossible franchise. It does not go overboard with gadgets and the use of technology. It is all fairly plausible. Most of the action sequences are usually stunt defying or hand to hand combat and it is well known that Tom Cruise does a lot of if not all of his own stunts.

Mission: Impossible-The Final Reckoning is a solid spy movie for the summer and is a good counterbalance to other offerings. It serves well as a closing chapter for Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt.