Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.
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Except where the films of the 1960s, like Fail Safe (1964) and Dr. Strangelove (1964), were more concerned with a Cold War at the hands of the U.S. and Russia, the eighth entry in the Mission: Impossible franchise is worried about the power we’re giving to A.I.
It evokes old-school tension like in Sidney Lumet’s Fail Safe…
McQuarrie’s own rendition of Fail Safe starring Angela Bassett…
A big chunk of the running time is devoted to McQuarrie’s riff on the classic Sidney Lumet film, Fail Safe, as the president (Angela Bassett) weighs the option of a nuclear strike…
…the film shifts into a small-scale remake of Sidney Lumet’s Fail Safe.
On Keaton, rather than any one film
What happens here is tame by Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks standards.
…aquel que va de las comedias mudas de Buster Keaton y Harold Lloyd…
…se percibe como una suerte de Buster Keaton moderno, usando todo su físico para meter a Hunt en diversas situaciones de peligro…
Cruise channels his inner Buster Keaton…
These movies are driven by Cruise doing his Buster Keaton best to look simultaneously graceful and ridiculous in extreme physical circumstances…
There are action set-pieces where everything goes wrong to the level of a Buster Keaton farce…
Director
Stanley Kubrick
Critics invoke Kubrick by name, and compare Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning to 2 of Kubrick’s films.
Visuals
On Kubrick, rather than any one film
It’s a great sequence, downright Kubrickian in execution…
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey…
…especialmente cuando el personaje se encoge en posición fetal, rozando el arquetipo del Niño Estrella de 2001: Odisea del Espacio…
It features one of the great rotating sets of cinema, equalling 2001: A Space Odyssey or Inception in its disorientating brilliance…
There’s this thing called The Entity, which is basically HAL 9000 meets The Matrix.
Even more so after he gets a Clockwork Orange-type indoctrination from the gizmo itself…
Director
James Cameron
Critics invoke Cameron by name, and compare Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning to 5 of Cameron’s films.
Visuals
On Cameron, rather than any one film
Uno se pregunta si James Cameron no habría sido el más indicado para orquestar esta odisea submarina…
…a virtually wordless, 30-minute, James Cameron-indebted sequence…
…the Abyss -inspired sequence set in and around the sunken Russian sub…
This new set piece manages to be very exciting, rivaling James Cameron’s work on The Abyss.
The underwater sequence is essentially The Abyss meets Titanic but with oxygen deprivation…
…for one harrowing sequence that makes The Abyss feel like a tame David Attenborough documentary…
…the Terminator franchise…
It can sometimes feel like we’re watching a Terminator movie where Ethan Hunt is trying to stop Skynet to prevent Judgment Day from happening.
…undeniable shades of SkyNet from The Terminator franchise…
The set is equal parts Avatar and the hallway fight from Inception.
…with The Entity trying to – hello Terminator 2! – engineer nuclear war.
The underwater sequence is essentially The Abyss meets Titanic but with oxygen deprivation…
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In the first entry in the film franchise, Mission: Impossible (1996), Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt hung upside-down from an air duct in a maximum-security vault while attempting to transfer data onto a floppy disk.
…the tone leans closer to Brian De Palma’s original “Mission: Impossible” than to the more explosive entries that followed…
…the “Mission: Impossible” movie franchise isn’t a cerebral cat-and-mouse game, the way Bruce Geller’s ‘60s TV series was…
The film's centerpiece is a nearly wordless sequence that harkens back to the original's Langley vault break-in.
This ultimate finale is more than giving the character of Ethan Hunt (and, to a lesser degree, Rhames’s Luther and Simon Pegg’s Benji Dunn) a sunset to ride off into and offering a plethora of Easter eggs and series callbacks that weave more meaning into the grand tapestry.
Even the date of the first Mission: Impossible’s premiere becomes an crucial plot point.
Director
Brad Bird
Critics invoke Bird by name, and compare Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning to 1 of Bird’s films.
Visuals
On Bird, rather than any one film
Things started changing for the best when Brad Bird and Christopher McQuarrie stepped behind the camera…
…the most spectacular stunt remains to be the Burj Khalifa scene in Ghost Protocol in 2011, directed by Brad Bird…
…the team dynamics which made GHOST PROTOCOL, for instance, fizz with energy…
Wrapping it all together is a pleasant undercurrent of humor, which keeps our IMF agents moving in a style more akin to the halcyon days of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol.
…with a creative high point somewhere between Ghost Protocol (2011) and Rogue Nation (2015)…
Ghost Protocol and Fallout remain the best of the franchise, demonstrating a balance of both.
Sitting in the shadow of the black vault heist in Mission: Impossible, scaling skyscrapers in Ghost Protocol…
Director
Christopher McQuarrie
Critics compare Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning to 3 of McQuarrie’s own films.
The final dual plane set piece is stellar as well but it does feel like a bit of a rehash of the helicopter sequence in Fallout.
From saving Julia over the Rabbit’s Foot in ‘M:I III’, to surrendering plutonium cores to rescue Luther in ‘Fallout’, he has always chosen people over protocol.
…la secuencia bajo el agua de Rogue Nation y la persecución aérea de Fallout…
Maybe too much so: Let’s ignore for the time being that this excellent four-way climax is basically a riff on the finale of the far superior Mission: Impossible — Fallout.
Henry Cavill reloading his fist mid-fight in Fallout…
…how the film builds to a decent climax but unfortunately it’s the same climax they already did in FALLOUT.
…function as a scaled-down version of a Rogue Nation set piece…
…think the underwater sequence in Rogue Nation, but bigger…
…la secuencia bajo el agua de Rogue Nation y la persecución aérea de Fallout…
…combining the former’s opening stunt from Rogue Nation and Fallout‘s helicopter battle for a whole new level of airborne action…
…with a creative high point somewhere between Ghost Protocol (2011) and Rogue Nation (2015)…
…the concept of the Syndicate and Solomon Lane (Sean Harris) carried across ROGUE NATION and FALLOUT…
The film picks up shortly after the (dangling) conclusion of DEAD RECKONING PART ONE, with the A.I. villain The Entity having now spread to all corners of the digital realm…
…who remains on the run after escaping the train sequence from Dead Reckoning…
Following the events of ‘Dead Reckoning: Part One’, Ethan receives a message from now-President Erika Sloane (Angela Bassett), calling him back into the shadows.
…standing alone means resetting the table, not just from the conclusion of Dead Reckoning, Part One…
…the snappy sequel to MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART ONE (2023)…
Picking up shortly after the events of Dead Reckoning…
Director
J.J. Abrams
Critics compare Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning to 2 of Abrams’s films.
…especially since its purpose was streamlined by “Mission: Impossible — III”…
The sense of caper and freneticism evident across all entries, bar maybe MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III, which made Hunt’s efforts entertaining rather than merely impressive, is largely absent here.
And as far as Gabriel, he will never be as great a villain as Philip Seymour Hoffman‘s role of Owen Davian in Mission: Impossible III.
…y sorpresivamente, “Misión: Imposible III”, del ya mencionado JJ Abrams.
I adore the third film even though it’s not as high on the list for some – Philip Seymour Hoffman is a fantastic villain…
…the mysterious “Rabbit’s Foot” that Ethan stole to rescue his ex-wife Julia in Mission: Impossible III…
Character callbacks (including at least one of the needless sort popularised in the wake of STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS and SPECTRE)…
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While 2015’s dreadful Spectre clumsily shoehorned every Craig-era Bond villain into one grand, ludicrous conspiracy, The Final Reckoning is far more concerned with the idea of action and consequence.
Character callbacks (including at least one of the needless sort popularised in the wake of STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS and SPECTRE)…
The same way Spectre wanted to tie together story threads from multiple prior Bond movies, this film attempts to do something similar, and strains a bit of credibility as a result.
Harry Lloyd dangling off the clock in Safety Last…
…parece encarnar una versión posmoderna de Harold Lloyd, colgado del minutero del reloj en Safety Last! (1923)…
How many other franchises would prompt a curious viewer to seek out Topkapi, Hard Boiled, Safety Last! and What’s Up, Doc?