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1 week ago | 
letterboxd.com | Jarrod Jones |Christopher McQuarrie
★★½ going in with the awareness that this is the second part of a two-part finale (retitling notwithstanding) does not improve its prospects.
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1 week ago | 
letterboxd.com | Steve Pulaski |Christopher McQuarrie
Catherine loves these movies, and has been eagerly anticipating this for years. I, on the other hand, never thought I'd enjoy this series, so this served as my introduction. I knew I avoided these movies for a reason. Honestly, much like James Bond, these movies are not my cup of tea. Knowing I wasn't going to understand any of the callbacks, flashbacks (and this film went nuts with them), or plot-points beyond the surface-level details, I zeroed into the performances, camera-work, and stunt-work.
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1 week ago | 
letterboxd.com | Josh Lewis |Christopher McQuarrie
★★★ I’m not sure there’s much wrong with this one that you can’t argue is a problem with the entire McQuarrie era, and the franchises transition from hiring interesting auteurs to bring their inconsistently stylized visual stamps to the more reliable and functional framework for the Tom Cruise stunt spectacular circus these turned into. McQuarrie’s primary contribution was in working so closely with Cruise in the pre-production process and designing a diverse array of escalating espionage...
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1 week ago | 
letterboxd.com | Christopher McQuarrie |Jon Winkler
★★½ I'm sad to give this such a low rating, but it's ruined by the two worst things to ever happen to the franchise: continuity and The Entity.
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2 weeks ago | 
letterboxd.com | Gigawatt Conduit |Christopher McQuarrie |Justin Carter
★★★★ Christopher McQuarrie might’ve peaked as a writer/director for these movies with Fallout, which had the strongest flow between stories, vibes, and action of his Mission movies. Of the four, Final Reckoning might be the weakest of the bunch. Some of that’s owed to how much it wants to thumb back through the series’ history, which quickly feels like it’s stopping the movie’s momentum thanks to repeatedly employing dialogue and archive footage from those earlier films. Other times, the film...
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2 weeks ago | 
letterboxd.com | Jeff Lowe |Christopher McQuarrie
★★★★ Liked 87/100 - Long in the tooth at times, 'Final Reckoning' seizes the moment in the back half of its runtime with "wow" moment after "wow' moment. Heavy exposition early on eventually flows right into some of the wildest action set-pieces you will ever see, along with an incredibly satisfying storyline that pulls out all types of emotions, from a bunch of laughs to edge-of-your-seat anxiety. It isn't without flaws, but this is an example of a franchise movie dipping into nostalgia and...
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2 weeks ago | 
letterboxd.com | Nathan Deal |Christopher McQuarrie
Gripping edge-of-your-seat climactic aerial sequence aside, “Final Reckoning” is a baffling misfire of massive proportions. This movie is almost three hours long, and it felt longer. The first 90 minutes bounce back and forth between contrived connections to other M:I movies — including tons of clips from all the movies — and exposition that keeps saying the same thing over and over, often things that were already made perfectly clear in this movie’s predecessor.
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2 weeks ago | 
letterboxd.com | Christopher McQuarrie |Giovanni Lago
★★★ A big bloated beautiful mess… It's wild that the last installment in this franchise would result in Tom Cruise/Christopher McQuaries's sloppiest entry. At moments becoming a schmaltzy smorgasbord of callbacks that build to become a glup-shitto-filled MI film that feels like a Dave Filoni live-action Star Wars series. A feeling especially solidified with baffling editing choices stitching together moments shot with the most visually distracting of framing its core cast. Yet when this thing...
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2 weeks ago | 
letterboxd.com | Matt Hurt |Christopher McQuarrie
★★★★ Liked The Final Reckoning is a big step up from Dead Reckoning and I'm really relieved by that.
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2 weeks ago | 
letterboxd.com | Christopher McQuarrie |Blake Krass
There should be a statue of Tom Cruise outside of every movie theater in America. What a spectacle. I don’t love the AI villain angle but they had already painted themselves into this corner a long time ago. But there is enough other conflict to push that aside. The beginning is a little slow with all of the “remember this from earlier in the series.”Outside of that, this is as fun as any movie in the series.
