FILM
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE — THE FINAL RECKONING
HAS TOM CRUISE FINALLY RUN OUT OF THINGS TO FALL OFF?
★★★★
OUT NOW / CERT 12A / 170 MINS
DIRECTOR Christopher McQuarrie
CAST Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Henry Czerny, Angela Bassett
PLOT The parasitic AI known as the Entity has infected global cyberspace and threatens the entire human race. The only man who can stop it? IMF agent Ethan Hunt (Cruise).
HAS THE FUSE finally been unlit? After 30 years of saving the world with stunts, set-pieces, spycraft and a substantial amount of sprinting, is Tom Cruise’s possibility-defying IMF agent Ethan Hunt finally hanging up his prosthetic mask? Whether or not Final Reckoning is truly the final Mission: Impossible remains to be seen. But there is a sense of an ending here, a much-deserved victory-lap for this most consistently thrilling of franchises.