The plot: Ethan Hunt and the IMF team race against time to find the Entity, a rogue artificial intelligence that can destroy mankind.
The Final Reckoning was good but not great.
Pros: I like how it did tie-ins from the previous entries of the franchise. Tom Cruise pulls off two of most unbelievable stunt performance ever shown. The action and fight set pieces are well choreograph and fast pace. At times I did get emotionally discerned and fist pump of excitement. It embraced the insanity of the premise of mission impossible & I’m glad I see this in a packed screening tonight.
Cons: There are really weak villains. Everyone from hunt’s team didn’t do that much. It didn’t do that much with it’s psychological warfare plotline. but also the ending I was expecting a little bit more of a send off.
Genre: Action, Drama
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
Produced by Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie
Screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie, Erik Jendresen
Based on Mission: Impossible by Bruce Geller
Starring: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Henry Czerny & Angela Bassett.
Edited by Eddie Hamilton
Cinematography: Fraser Taggart
Music by Max Aruj, Alfie Godfrey
Production companies: Paramount Pictures, Skydance, TC Productions
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Cast:
- Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt: An IMF agent and leader of a team of operatives.
- Hayley Atwell as Grace: A former thief turned IMF agent and Ethan’s ally.
- Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell: An IMF computer technician, Ethan’s best friend and a member of his team.
- Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn: An IMF technical field agent and a member of Ethan’s team and close friend.
- Esai Morales as Gabriel: An assassin with ties to Ethan’s past before the IMF, who previously acted as the Entity’s liaison.
- Pom Klementieff as Paris: A French assassin who was betrayed by Gabriel and became Ethan’s ally to kill Gabriel.
- Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge: The former director of the IMF in the first film who now is the director of the CIA from Dead Reckoning.
- Angela Bassett as Erika Sloane: The former CIA director, now President of the United States. Bassett returns from Fallout.
- Holt McCallany as Serling Bernstein, The Secretary of Defense
- Janet McTeer as Walters, The Secretary of State
- Nick Offerman as General Sidney: The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
- Hannah Waddingham as Rear Admiral Neely, the head of an aircraft carrier.
- Tramell Tillman as Captain Bledsoe, the commander of a rescue submarine
- Shea Whigham as Jasper Briggs/Jim Phelps Jr: A US Intelligence agent assigned to track down Ethan and his team. Son of Ethan’s former team leader turned nemesis, Jim Phelps.
- Greg Tarzan Davis as Theo Degas: A US Intelligence agent and Briggs’ former partner who was assigned to track down Ethan and his team. He joins Ethan’s team in this film.
- Charles Parnell as Richards, the DNI, and head of the NRO.
- Mark Gatiss as Angstrom, Head of the NSA
- Rolf Saxon as William Donloe, a CIA analyst who was last seen in the first film being transferred to Alaska.
- Lucy Tulugarjuk as Tapeesa, Donloe’s wife
- Katy O’Brian as Kodiak, a naval soldier on board the submarine.
- Stephen Oyoung as Pills, a naval soldier on board the submarine.
- Mariela Garriga as Marie: A woman from Ethan and Gabriel’s past, seen in a brief flashback.
- Pasha D. Lychnikoff as Captain Koltsov
- Tommie Earl Jenkins as Colonel Burdick
I recommend watching this film to those who like the mission impossible movies.
Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars
Ryan Balkwill:
Resident film reviewer,
Level Best Art Cafe