Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning was released last year this week. Serving as the 8th and final film in the MI series, it grossed $197.4M Dom & $598.8M WW. Despite outgrossing its predecessor and receiving positive reviews, it overall underperformed due to its high budget of $300-400M.
by gamesgry
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Decent finale, but for an almost three hour movie, it doesn’t really have the “wow” sequence you’d expect from the recent installments.
I mostly remember there was a video of every time they say “the entiry” in the last movies. If it were a drinking game people would die.
Very surprsing ending to this franchise on both fronts: box office and film quality. After the incredible run from MI 4-MI 6, one would expect the quality increments to result in big box office too, especially since Cruise had become cool again after TG Maverick. But these final 2 MIs just could not build on the goodwill.
The very able and skilled Mcquarrie did not help things with the scripts. There was no cohesive plot or great character moments to engross the audience in the story. Something like Bourne Indentity or a Casino Royale / Skyfall do. We just viewed things from a distance, as an admirer of Hunt’s antics, and nothing else. Even though the character deserved a stronger sendoff.
He going to be doing this till he’s 90!
The script was the weakest part of the movie.
Very messy screenwriting that led to a bloated cast and bogged down the runtime.
Never came close to the spycraft artistry that we expect in the ***Mission: Impossible*** series such as the Burj Khalifa transaction scene in **Ghost Protocol** or Vienna opera house scene in **Rogue Nation** or the Paris nightclub scene in **Fallout**.
was always going to be hard to make better entries than Fallout.
Bloated screenplay and character count, too scared to kill or retire more of the cast since they clearly want to leave open for spin offs or sequels, long run time.
A mid ending following its mid predecessor, which is unfortunate for an above-mid series and Tom being as committed as always. Everyone involved was competent and dedicated enough to make this amazing, but it just ended up okay.
This movie has to be a money laundry scheme.
It’s a shame it underperformed, a nice closing to the franchise
Dead Reckoning is one of the all-time great action films in my eyes. A formally bizarre late-stage entry that eschews from everything the series has strived for aesthetically up to that point and it just *works*. Doesn’t necessarily live up to Fallout’s action sequences but makes up for it in great character work. Final Reckoning improves on action but greatly regresses in all other fields. Really have grown to quite dislike it. But that final plane sequence is undeniably Cruise’s greatest feat to the date. Still watch it from time to time just to feel something.
if you cut the first hour and start it in the briefing with president bassett it’s immediately like 75% better
I saw it in the next town over because the power was out in mine for over a day. I don’t know if it was because the theater was the only place I could be for three hours, but I enjoyed every second of this movie. Not a huge fan of the franchise, haven’t seen every movie, but this is a guilty pleasure.
The end of MI.This was coming there were signs pointing to it.