Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
2025-05-22
Vancouver, BC

My hope coming into this was that Dead Reckoning would mostly end up as leverage for the events of this film. That does feel to be the case, as we are treated to some of the most memorable action in the series to date, specifically the submarine and biplane sequences (though Fallout still pretty handily comes out on top). While it does put itself through quite a bit of cleanup early on in the runtime, pretty evidently to tie off some ideas scrapped from Dead Reckoning (specifically whatever Kittridge was up to), making it feel less composed than its predecessors, ultimately that doesn't really taint my perception of the film. It's damn good action, and that's really what I and many others love about this franchise. Each movie is remembered most by their respective spectacles (scaling the Burj Khalifa, the opera in Vienna, the helicopter chase in Kashmir). So here we have the submarine wreckage in the Bering Sea, and I will take that any day of the week. More thoughts to come when I inevitably re-watch this.

Watched in IMAX at Scotiabank Theatre Vancouver. Opening night!