Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)
I am going to do something I haven’t done before, by reviewing and rating a movie I didn’t finish. In this case I feel it is justified, because a massive disappointment from a film series that I have been fond of since the very first film in 1996. But I simply had to turn it off after about 90 minutes it was just so abysmal and depressingly terrible. The series has never really been about being realistic as such, but at least it felt somewhat connected to the real world, to real locations and to real people. All of that is gone now. I am baffled that after more than an hour there hasn’t been a single cool looking location, no impressive action scene or anything substantial. The few decent fight scenes are still looking overly choreographed. Instead we get an absurd amount of exposition, explanations and pointless flashbacks to all the previous movies. I am almost in shock at how bad it is. Everything looks computer generated and bland. Missions are not interesting as they are basically just about getting coordinates and locations in a very boring way. The entity that supposedly can manipulate everything is hardly used for anything other than a reason to go into “save the world”-mode. Maybe there are some decently cool action set pieces in the second half, but a Mission Impossible has no business taking more than an hour to get going.
Rating: 1