Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning (2025)

I read a review that called this "repetative and pretentious to the point of parody", which I think sums it up perfectly. It is a long running series of movies with a very solid line up of actors, and much like what I felt happened in the Marvel series', at some point there is just no hype there and it all seems both unbelievable and derivative. So yes, the danger is real, and in this case it was realized. To be fair, if anyone has earned valorization in the action franchise sphere, it’s Hunt. Ethan Hunt isn’t a superhero; he’s the guy who gets the job done, the one who chooses to accept the assignment, and the mythologizing about all that does seem overblown but on the other hand, that is where the series has been headed over time. So all that said, am I sorry to have watched this installment? No. Would I watch another should it be made? Probably. You know what you are getting in to from the get go, and it goes there. The fate of the world is left in Hunt's hands and he delivers.