Anvar Khasanov

I love Mission Impossible franchise. I love Tom Cruise as an actor and a stuntman. I LOVE MI: Ghost Protocol and MI: Fallout - these are truly the best. I even love MI:2 because even though it's so dorky - it's still quirky and so much fun sometimes. But The Final Reckoning is REALLY boring, holy moly this was a letdown. I had to sit for 3 hours just to get 2 good scenes - the submarine one, which would work MUCH better if we had any action before that, and the plane stunt, which is not something new. Even these parts of the movie couldn't save me from being bored. Any fight scenes, which I can only remember maybe 3-4 of them in this movie were shot horribly - there's not a single wide shot of the fight scene without cutting every second or so, and usually it can be fixed if you capture and save the movements on the screen space when you're switching the angles. This was not done so. For nearly 2.5 hours you're getting ENDLESS exposition of how dangerous the main villain is without even showing any threats it can do, it's only the characters that are so afraid of it that they are ruining everything by themselves. There's not many locations as we're used to, I would even say that A LOT, if not all, scenes were shot in some green screen warehouses. At 1.5 hour mark I had to have a call on my phone and went out for 15 minutes and apparently I didn't miss anything. And I never do that while watching the movie at the theater. Even the previous movie was MUCH better and I didn't like it for the most part because of dragging the whole plot + the bad CGI fest on the train wreck and an underwhelming "final" stunt. But this movie made me think that maybe it's really better to end this franchise already. Worst in the MI series for sure by me, but you should check it for yourself. It was just a total disappointment both in cinematography and the script. Hoping to see Tom Cruise in anything else where the director knows what the movie must be, unless Christopher McQuarrie will learn on his mistakes and wouldn't ruin the formula he and Tom found out while making movies together.