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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is finally here, pulling the curtain down on the globally popular franchise starring Tom Cruise. The film made its debut at the 78th Cannes Film Festival and received a five-minute-long standing ovation. The eighth instalment, exploring Ethan Hunt’s adventure with death-defying stunts, however, has left critics divided. While the eventgoers stayed glued during the screening, despite its long running time (though some were seen sneaking out); on Rotten Tomatoes, the film has been handed a mixed bag of reviews.
Cruise’s latest extravaganza has surprisingly scored a far poorer Rotten Tomatoes rating at 81% as compared to the previous four movies that remained in high 90s. Slamming it as a ‘bad summer’ film, some are not so impressed, claiming the story is more style than substance. The story picks up a couple of months after the last film (Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One).
The 2011 movie received a solid 94% Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics calling the movie a “franchise reviver” and the “most satisfying blockbuster in memory.” From the Burj Khalifa stunt to the Kremlin sequence, fans loved the slick, fast, and genuinely thrilling sequence after a very long time.
The 2015-released instalment of Mission: Impossible continued the winning streak with 94% on Rotten Tomatoes and 87% on PopcornMeter. No doubt, the entry of Rebecca Ferguson and some old-school espionage flair gave the film an instant boost, and the duo’s performance together was hailed as an explosive Cirque du Soleil act. Unlike Final Reckoning, Rogue Nation was branded as one of the all-time best summer movies one could ever get, with a promising future.
The 2018 film of the franchise took the title of the crown jewel of the series with an almost perfect Rotten Tomatoes rating of 98%. Critics and audiences both were blown away, with Ethan’s HALO jump, the helicopter chase, the choreography of the combat sequences, rubber mask fake-outs and more, with praises also falling in McQuarrie’s bag for outdoing the execution. A critic called Mission: Impossible Fallout “the best film of its franchise and one of the best action movies of all time.”
The 2023 film also pulled in a whopping 96% rating scorecard, but this time, the focus was more on his health, and signs of fatigue that were beginning to show. The action was there, but some said it leaned too hard into exposition.
Now, with The Final Reckoning, it won’t be wrong to say that it’s more of a 40-60 situation. Many reviews gave the film a Fresh score, but several top critics slapped it with a Rotten one. “It’s big, extravagant, and at times very beautiful to look at. The story is the problem…” one wrote. “Cruise, again, laughs in the face of insurance bills. But this goodbye to a brilliant brand really did self-destruct,” another didn’t try to sugarcoat either. The film initially debuted with an 88% scorecard but has since witnessed a dramatic drop, now sitting at just 81%. As of now, it’s floating around a fresh-but-shaky range. While audience reviews are still pending, the film still has defenders who called it “…a film that largely measures up to the epic blockbuster sense the filmmakers intended.” Another backed it up, “Cruise can let Hunt rest and bask in the glory of a mission well-accomplished.”
Final Reckoning is set in a world in chaos, something called The Entity, an all-knowing, all-controlling artificial intelligence with the ability to launch a nuclear strike and wipe out humanity. This time, Cruise is hanging from a biplane. There’s a spooky underwater mission in a submarine. The Final Reckoning opens in theatres Friday, May 23.
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