Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is being called Tom Cruise's greatest stunt spectacle ever — genuine action cinema landmark or just expensive nostalgia for people who refuse to let the franchise die?

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  Theo1d ago

  Does nobody else feel weird that the big Hollywood movie about the dangers of uncontrollable AI is itself being promoted using AI-generated marketing materials? No one? Just me?

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  Drew3d ago

  The submarine sequence. IMAX. You have to see it. I'm not explaining it. Just go.

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  Marco M.2d ago

  It's a 2.5 hour movie and I didn't check my phone once. That hasn't happened since Oppenheimer. Whatever you want to call it, that's not nothing.

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  Theo B.4d ago

  saw it last night at an imax. the biplane sequence alone is worth the ticket price. i don't care about plot, i don't care about anything, that scene made my stomach drop and i was just sitting in a chair. when does cinema actually do that anymore??

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  Ravi3d ago

  I genuinely believe Tom Cruise is the last movie star in the traditional sense and when he's gone that era is completely over. Final Reckoning feels like watching the last of something. That's not nostalgia bait, that's just true.

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  Riley2d ago

  I cried when the original theme came in during a specific scene I won't spoil. I've never cried at a Mission Impossible movie before in my entire life. Whatever they did it worked on me completely.

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  Zara3d ago

  I've seen every MI film in theatres since the first one in 1996. Took my kids to this one. My son is 16 and genuinely turned to me after and said 'dad that was incredible.' That moment is worth more to me than any critic's take.

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  Omar3d ago

  The Final Reckoning is proof that you can still make a movie for adults that isn't a superhero film or an IP sequel to a children's franchise. That alone deserves respect. The bar is underground.

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  Liam1d ago

  Took my mum. She's 71. She grabbed my arm so hard during one sequence she left a mark. That's cinema doing what cinema is supposed to do.

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  Casey T.2d ago

  People who say 'it's just stunts' don't understand that action IS a language. How tension is built, how geography is communicated, how a body moving through space tells a story — McQuarrie is genuinely one of the best at this working today. It deserves to be taken seriously as craft.

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  Marco T.4d ago

  The problem isn't the stunts. The problem is they've been making essentially the same movie since 2011 and calling it evolution. Ethan Hunt gets a new impossible mission, runs a lot, someone betrays someone, Benji says something funny, the world is saved. It's comfort food dressed up as a landmark.

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  Zara1d ago

  every 'this is the last one' blockbuster ends up not being the last one. i'll believe it when i see it. give it 4 years.

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  Drew3d ago

  Unpopular take: Fallout is still the best one and nothing in Final Reckoning tops the bathroom fight or the helicopter chase. Good movie but let's not pretend it automatically wins because it's the last one.

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  Zara2d ago

  The fact that this is doing huge numbers while actually original films struggle to get greenlit tells you everything about the industry, not this specific movie. I enjoyed it but we shouldn't be patting ourselves on the back for rewarding a 30 year old franchise.

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  Marco2d ago

  genuine landmark? no. excellent blockbuster that respects the audience's intelligence? absolutely yes. we have a calibration problem where everything has to be either genius or garbage.

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  Priya 924d ago

  I work in film production (not going to say where) and the sheer logistics of what they pulled off in this movie — the location count alone, the practical work — it's actually insane. People who call it 'just nostalgia' have no idea what it takes to put something like this together. This is a crew of thousands doing their best work.

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  Avery S.2d ago

  the problem is calling it a FINALE and then leaving plot threads open. you don't get to have it both ways. either end the thing or don't. this industry cannot commit to a real ending because money.

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  Noah K.1d ago

  To everyone saying 'just a franchise cash grab' — McQuarrie turned down much more money to make smaller films because he believed in this. The man genuinely cares. You can read the interviews. Cynicism is easy but it isn't always correct.

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  Alex S.3d ago

  everyone praising practical effects as if fast and furious doesn't do the same thing lmao. oh wait no one calls those landmarks. interesting how prestige works huh

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  Drew3d ago

  Watched it with my husband and honestly cried at the ending. Not because it was sad exactly but because it felt like a goodbye to something. I grew up with this franchise. Some feelings aren't about the stunts.

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  Omar S.1d ago

  the people saying plot doesn't matter in an action film are the same people who got angry that the Fast saga stopped making sense. decide what you want from your action movies please

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  Morgan2d ago

  franchise fatigue is real but MI has somehow avoided it because each installment is genuinely directed by someone with a vision. JJ Abrams, Brad Bird, Christopher McQuarrie — these aren't hired hands. the director matters and people forget that.

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  Feli1d ago

  saw it, liked it, immediately forgot 70% of it. that's not a landmark. that's a very expensive snack.

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  Quinn T.4d ago

  genuine question: would anyone care at all if it was a different actor? like if this was some random 40 year old doing these stunts would we be calling it a cinematic landmark? or is the whole thing just a Tom Cruise personality cult at this point

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  Avery2d ago

  my coworker said she doesn't watch action movies because they're all the same. I made her watch the trailer. she bought tickets for this weekend. case closed.

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  Elena3d ago

  The thing is, Tom Cruise actually puts himself in physical danger for these films and that means something morally complicated too. We're essentially cheering for a man risking his life for our entertainment. Is that... fine? I'm not sure it is.

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  Jamie4d ago

  My dad texted me after seeing it and said it was the best movie he's seen in 20 years. My dad said the same thing about Top Gun Maverick. I think my dad just really loves Tom Cruise and that's fine but let's not act like this is Kubrick.

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  Priya2d ago

  honestly kind of embarrassing that we celebrate a man in his 60s doing things a stuntman should be doing as some sort of artistic statement. other people's bodies matter too. unnamed stunt performers make this possible and they get what, a credit?

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  Liam M.3d ago

  the AI villain stuff is so on the nose lmao. yes we get it the Entity is a metaphor for uncontrollable technology. they literally have characters explain this out loud three times. subtlety is dead

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  Jamie2d ago

  The score is underrated in every conversation about this film. Lorne Balfe has been building something across multiple installments and the musical payoffs in this one hit different if you've been paying attention.

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  Noah3d ago

  called a cinematic landmark by the same critics who give 94% on rotten tomatoes to literally everything that isn't a family film. critics have lost all calibration. landmark means something.

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  Jamie R.2d ago

  Okay I'm going to be the one to say it: the plot makes absolutely no sense and I had to keep asking my boyfriend what was happening. Fun to watch, completely incoherent to follow. It's a theme park ride, not a film.

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  Yuki S.3d ago

  My partner refuses to watch it because she's tired of Tom Cruise's public persona and I kind of get that. At what point does 'separating art from artist' apply and at what point are we just endorsing someone's ego project? Real question I think about.

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  Elena T.1d ago

  Tom Cruise has been doing this specific kind of movie for so long that we've started treating dedication as artistry. They are not the same thing. A baker who makes the same loaf every day for 30 years is dedicated. Are they an artist?

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  Quinn 922d ago

  Saw it dubbed in another language by accident (long story, wrong screen) and still thought it was brilliant. When visuals carry that much weight you know you're watching something special.

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