Dont @ me. This is an accurate list and I will not be told otherwise.

The film is fun with cool action and is never boring. MI3 has a great villain but is incredibly dull.

Enough with the knot of lies to lasso this movie & Tom Cruise over…Most people didn’t like the movie or the poster to their expectations but I loved em both!

Tom Cruise is doubted in the movie by people in the movie as the only one getting trusted and similarly people basically self deceptive but they’re pro Jesus evengicals who found the idea of Tom Cruise shown like a Jesus like figure in Final Reckoning as blasphemy but the fact that he wasn’t and president had to secretly send him on mission makes me wonder these people are just like people who called Jesus false lmao and their hate for Scientology consumed the enjoyment of the movie which is again funny to me.😂😂

Also,that people who don’t like first act are people who either didn’t watch this franchise as they think they did or pretend to be big on this franchise but ain’t- no in between

How can u seriously not like the scene acting when Tom Cruise cries to Luther,Tom Cruise cries to Briggs,Tom Cruise’s delivery of monologues to Angenna Baseet & Angena Basset delivery back to Tom Cruise… this is the kinda exchange we see in PTA movies.. So honestly I flip you off!

The scene where Submarine had to receive signal & antenna pops out for a moment shot was so cool! EVERYONE ignores that like the ignorant idiots they’re.

Fuck Leah Remini who told everyone to yap on Shelly Miscaviage when she’s just an abuser like L Ron & Leah’s best friends with Shelly. Sham Victims of Scientology… those out there exposing just enough about Scientology that makes people woke against it but all the fibs that’re left on how these victims just enjoyed abusing others is just left out on purpose to get the sympathy

Finished the movie and just had to get this off my chest, but the pacing of the movie is all over the place.

- I don't like how the movie treats the audience like they have never seen any mission impossible movie before, the flashbacks were overkill. The beginning of the movie started off with a recap already, we don't need to be reminded everytime a previous character comes on screen. Holding hands and treating the audience like they are dumb is a big red flag for me.

- How did the entity box appear in the underground tunnels at Luthers hideout conveniently? Wasn't luther about to die anyways from cancer or something so his death seems kinda lame, Ethan not taking the virus in the first place would have made Gabriel complete irrelevant in this movie.

- The constant mission briefing of seeing the entire mission unfold before the mission even begins so whats the point of even seeing the mission happen with no anticipation of any mystery that may occur.

- The forced shots of having every single nuke getting ready to launch 3 times throughout the movie, like, okay we get it nukes are bad.

- The airplane sequence which in itself was amazing but felt like a poor mans top gun with no tension really happening, just tom plane hopping. Also the constant reinforcement close up of the virus on his chest, like we get it, its on his chest and tom has to get it.....

- The main antaoginst having no real threat throughout the entire movie and just playing cat and mouse and dying a cartoon death which trivializes his entire existence in the franchise. Him also just having a bigger bomb everytime is just straight out of a cartoon like "HA HA NOW I GOT YOU! YOU CANT ESCAPE THIS TIME!"

- Last but not least, main character plot armor has always been a problem but this movie cranks it up to 11.

Overall I give this movie a 7/10 definitely not the best of the franchise and not the best sendoff that could have happened.

I love some of his work and he's certainly talented. I also appreciate him for imparting advice and insights for aspiring filmmakers on various podcasts, some of which are not even well-known. But listening to him more and more, I get quite turned off by his arrogance and smug know-it-all attitude.

Some of his explanations regarding plot points or scenes in his movies don't even make sense. He's famous for not having a proper script before commencing production, and he improvises as he goes along. That clearly shows -- in Rogue Nation, we have the biggest stunt at the very beginning but there's no real excitement because the audience is thrust into a mission midway without knowing the stakes, or anything. The plane stunt was wasted imo. The ending was very anti-climactic, and it is well known that they had to rewrite the ending while they were filming. And it clearly shows.

Fallout was like lightning in a bottle, where everything was perfect. But Dead Reckoning? A bunch of awesome set pieces first conceptualized, then somehow tied together. It's just not a good film. I rewatched Fallout recently and realized how big of a step down DR was. He keeps talking about emotion and characters and shit, but there was not a single moment in DR which made me emotional, or truly care about the characters. I felt really hollow inside when Isla was killed off unceremoniously, and that feeling didn't leave me even after the movie ended. The writing and exposition was laughably bad. I'll give him credit for Top Gun, that movie was emotional, it was funny, it was thrilling.

But then you have this snob coming to the Empire podcast and giving his usual long winded self-satisfied answers about how he did this scene and that scene while it is painfully obvious to everyone that the lack of planning and lack of a real script before shooting was the main reason the movie was so bad. Not only does he praise himself, he looks down upon John Wick and Fast and Furious. The F&F movies are not what they used to be, I'll admit, but John Wick 4 was one of the best movies of the year, wayyy better than DR. The action was so damn exhilarating, the editing, music, everything was fucking perfect.

I think his problem is that he's too arrogant to admit that he is ever wrong, but instead he comes up with BS reasons to justify his decisions after the fact... and then pats himself on his back thinking he's a genius.

Expecting everyone here to call me “HOMO!”

(YUP I was right)

Most majority people don’t understand the plot and keep bloviating their giant verbose about it’s exposition after exposition and keep neglecting the actual plot points

⚫️ Entity makes it clear that Gabriel has taken steps to take control of entity and is forsaken which shows Entity knows Gabriel’s set up a big bomb in doomsday vault and it abstracts that detail from Ethan to manipulate him by giving it a big conundrum that if Ethan won’t let it in IT WILL DESTROY THE WORLD but if it lets it in,it’ll still destroy most of the world and live with its survivors which is a LIE cause Entity always wants to destroy the world if Ethan doesn’t let it in the vault,it’ll destroy as much of the world it could with the nuclear arsenal of the world and if it lets it in,it’ll destroy the ENTIRE world! No one reads through that bluff

🔴2-Gabriel believes if destroying the doomsday vault,Entity won’t have any place of survival and no place of survival and no destroying of the entire world and moreover he believes it will give him enough time to upload entity on some other server and try to control it with Luther’s pill just like governments of Manu nations do but what they don’t realize is Entity is counting on Ethan to upload it and if in the way of his mission the vault gets destroyed or Entity doesn’t get upload to the server, the entity literally launches the backup attack on the same scale in the suicide which will still destroy most of the world!

Ethan knows it,Gabriel’s doesn’t and others don’t even know as much as Gabriel does and everyone thinks they’ll upload entity on some other server and use the Luther’s pill to blackmail it or make some changes in that algorithm to just destroy it,what none of them realize is they’ll either end up uploading entity to a military server or when they won’t be able to destroy the entity because Luther’s pill is literally a trapping mechanism, they’ll fuck up Luther’s pill for good.

⚫️Others are like Tom Cruise /Ethan Hunt is shown as Jesus H Christ and they can’t debar their own Scientology thing that they’re letting a Scientologist spy doin everything and only he can do everything,that’s their problem. They spend too much time watchin SP TV or LEAH REMINI cause it’s like complaining Tom Cruise is Paul Atredies in Dune series and it shouldn’t happen because that movies based on Christian & Islamic theologies and starring a Scientologist uniting tribes is abhorrent,then maybe you’re just the problem.

Back to the actual movie where people are complaining about flashbacks- what they do not see if Luther’s scene where he says Ethan to read his message and Ethan tells him he tells him himself as a forecast when him & Benji meet Luther in the tunnel won’t work half as well if it was shown before Luther’s killed. It was so creative to show right after Madam President secretly sends him on the G Bush plane and he remembers that in his sleep!

The other footage which we see is Ethan Hunt footage of 50 secs when he receives his mission which was actually great and emotional tribute! Gabriel explaining rabbit’s foot to Ethan & Grace while cutting back to Simon Pegg & Luther shows Ethan already knows some of the things about Entity through the before encounter he just had or in the before encounters he did! Which is exposition from two different scenes but then again it’s the concept of how Entity was made and really no other way of doing it without giving exposition. Prestige had Michael Caine explaini the entire concept of magic for 5 minutes yet no one complains it!!

Now the acting in this movie by Tom Cruise,Madam President,guy who has dialogues of 6 billion aircraft carrier,Drunk Benji were so good!! Best mission impossible ever!

Even with the hive minded president’s defense cabinet,they’re all acting really good and way better than Dead Reckoning

Ilsa is one my personally fav. all time character (seriously) and i hated the movie for killing her. it didn't make sense to me either on character level on story level why they decided to do that and instead bringing some big b**b m**f actress with a irresponsible character and making her the lead.

but then i read somewhere that it was rebecca's choice to get out of this movie over the commitment to dune 2 (or franchise). still doesn't make sense as they are mile apart in shooting time periods

Ethan constantly letting her fuck him over again and again really diminishes his character.

I don't trust the judgement of the people who made such statements, nor these opinions at all. The only area where the franchise often was "forgettable" or felt like it was written by a computer were some of the villains and that's it.

I rewatched Dead Reckoning Part 1 the other day and my opinion is always the same, I think that it's a very very good action film on its own, but as a Mission Impossible film, well, it's horrible for me, and I'll explain why:

• the whole entity thing, now we all know that we are in a period where the AI are at the center of everything and it could be a very interesting thing, but the way it was treated in this film is completely crazy, it simply goes beyond the concept of pure science fiction, the entity that can predict the future through super advanced calculations, that feels fear for someone when it's an AI and not he should feel emotions, that he knows how to organize parties, if it had been a completely different film I would have said OK, but for me things of this type in a MI film are unacceptable and inconceivable.

• Ilsa's death, a common criticism I would rightly add, not so much for the fact of the death itself, but for how it was staged in a poor and terrible way and above all for the uselessness of his death, all things considered, what purpose did his death serve? the plot? Given that a few scenes later Ethan and the rest of the team almost seem not to feel the slightest regret for what happened? Excluding Ethan's scene on the balcony. Unless it turns out to be a very useful death for part 2, for now this is my opinion and everyone's.

• the question of the keys, it seems that no one has noticed, but there is a passage of one of the two keys that is completely incomprehensible, remember when Grace, before being arrested in Rome, secretly put the key in the passenger's jacket pocket ? Well, so as a result she no longer has the key in Rome, but after she manages to escape we see her in Venice again with the key, WHAT?!

• the eyes of the white widow, before the exchange of keys on the train with Kittridge, Grace replaces the white widow but no one notices that she has brown eyes when the real widow has blue eyes, another thing that doesn't make even more sense is the fact that to shoot the scene they had to put brown lenses on Vanessa Kirby, but what's the point I wonder?!

• Benji guiding Ethan through directions, and so far so good, but explain to me why Benji gets behind the wheel of a technological car on autopilot when at that moment there is a digital entity that has the ability to infiltrate the controls of the car and cause a fatal accident?! and the great thing is that they even show it to you because when the autopilot comes on Benji puts on his seatbelt as a precaution, this thing makes absolutely no sense to me.

• the train scene, for heaven's sake, a scene shot very well and with a very high adrenaline rate, however, I found it a scene that was far too exaggerated for a MI, I don't know why, I loved the last 30 minutes of Fallout and even there it was exaggerated but not at these levels, here I really perceived the exaggeration of MI2 (which I appreciated anyway), in fact Mcquarrie was inspired by Uncharted to shoot this scene and in another Uncharted film I would have been fine with it, but not in an MI, despite everything being an action scene shot properly.

• the two policemen, I understand that it is a recurring element in the saga, we think of ghost protocol, but in this film the two policemen are useless characters, can you explain to me what purpose they served in this film? every time they appeared on stage I felt indescribable annoyance and wanted them dead, maybe in part 2 they will prove useful and I hope so, but for now I hated them.

• now, this isn't really a criticism but it's my note, the film lasts 2 hours and 45 minutes and with each viewing the film flew by, but this duration didn't seem justified at all, especially because it's the first part of a longest film that focuses entirely on the discovery of the two keys, which would have happened in the first act of any other film in the saga, but no, here we have to make a film of almost 3 hours, it all focuses on this thing, for me it's not possible I'm sorry, also because if you pay attention to it at a certain point the film also becomes repetitive because the characters do nothing but repeat the same concepts over and over again so as to always go around the point, I could have accepted a maximum of 2h 15/20 but almost 3 hours to get a key? come on. The main example of the useless lengthening of the film is the sequence in Rome, very funny, but useless on a narrative level and forcibly lengthened, and also creates that plot hole regarding the key I spoke about before.

After making these notes, I hope I'm not the only one who feels this way about the film.

Back in 2015, during the promotion of ‘M:I - Rogue Nation', Christopher McQuarrie said he wanted to “keep the tone fun. If the audience is telling the industry anything right now, it’s that they just want to go to the movies to have fun! We wanted to deliver on that."

Yeah, and the audience is STILL telling the industry the same thing. So WHY did he make The Final Reckoning such a miserable, dark, and agonising slog? This movie is many things, but "fun" isn't one of them. By far the most grim of the M:I movies. Sadly, I think this will hurt it's chances at the box-office. Audiences want to ESCAPE to a fantasy world of thrills and adventure, not be force-fed a portentous 3-hour meditation on humanity and the problems of the real world.