Ethan hunt is back for one final adventure.
There is nothing final about this film, the idea this is the last Mission Impossible film is a fallacy. This film is terrified of doing anything that has a whiff of ending to it. Killing off characters? Nah, Having people retire at the end? Nah. Actually properly wrapping up the plot? Nah.
There are ridiculous scenes such as where Hunt, Tom Cruise, is falling without a parachute to certain death and yet he magically manages to find one in the next shot. Or when Benji, Simon Pegg, is shot and looks like he is going to die yet lives thanks to some simple medical hack, who knew getting shot was so easy to walk off. The only person they do kill is Luther, Ving Rhames, and even then I would not be surprised if he came back in another film. Honestly the plot armour is so thick here it gets to the point where even if everyone fired off their nuclear arsenals Hunt and co would be just fine.
Then you have the long self-indulgent bloat, the film is on for an ungodly amount of time and why? Does it put it to good use? No it does it to cram in as much pointless nostalgia as possible, remember the security guard from one of the earlier films? No well you are going to meet him and spend a bunch of time with his family. This feels like one of those times where you needed a cruel studio executive to force through cuts and get the film into better shape.
Overall, reheated slop that needs to die off as a franchise. It has had its time, it is over.
2/5
Pros.
Some dumb fun
Pom Klementieff is a great addition
Cons.
It is too scared for meaningful character death
It is bloated
It is boring at times
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