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There’s fun unbelievable, and ghastly unbelievable. This film fell into the later category. While I appreciated the tie-ins to the previous movies, this film exceeded all predecessors in the ridiculousness. Ethan Hunt is at the bottom of the ocean in the Arctic when he strips his clothes off and ditches his oxygen. There isn’t even a zero percent chance he’d survive. We’ve got to have a thread of plausibility to hand on to. Impossible after impossible scenario played out until it really was impossible to believe. I can suspend only so much belief before I’m rolling my eyes so much I can’t see the movie. What a horrible end to a fun franchise.

I’m not a hardcore Tolkien reader, so I’m not bothered by incongruent details I don’t know. Likely, that is why I’m able to enjoy this series on its own merit. The casting is perfect. The visuals are stunning. I care about each of the storylines. I don’t even mind that it keeps switching because I want to know all the character’s fates. The Lord of the Ring series gave us moments of hope and humor, that are lacking in this series. I do miss that. But overall I’m thrilled with the adventure and the characters.