nickrigato1986

Dead Reckoning - Final Part marks a surprising low point for the Mission: Impossible franchise - not due to a lack of spectacle, but rather because of a screenplay that has lost all sense of rhythm, tone, and narrative coherence.

Two sequences stand out and are worth the price of admission: the thrilling airplane scene, executed with remarkable tension and kinetic flair, and a breathtaking underwater sequence set inside a submarine, where Tom Cruise once again proves himself a master of physical storytelling. These are moments of true cinematic impact - meticulously choreographed, tightly edited, and visually compelling.

Unfortunately, the rest of the film falters badly. The first hour is weighed down by clunky exposition and dialogue that borders on the unintentionally absurd. The performances feel constrained, as if the actors are reading from a first draft rather than embodying their characters. The pacing drags, and instead of building tension, the narrative meanders through empty exchanges and implausible plot turns.

It's genuinely baffling that Tom Cruise - a usually discerning producer and consummate performer - would endorse a script so dramatically undercooked. What should be a high-stakes, gripping spy thriller often feels like a parody of the genre it helped define.

In the end, this installment offers two standout action set pieces surrounded by an ocean of missed opportunities. Mission: Impossible was once synonymous with smart, pulse-pounding entertainment. Here, the pulse is faint - and the intelligence, largely absent.

Watch it for the two masterful scenes. Skip the rest.

An exceptional film, amazing director , memorable actors, photography, editing, music score, all very good. Perversion and madness. Psychiatric dynamics. Simplistic at times but convincing and intense However technically masterful. A small masterpiece. An ambiguous film that remains objective, not politically correct but winks at Satanism. The ending mockingly and riskily downplays and ritualizes evil. The director plays on the matter in an excellent way and remains in the balance between what she wants to consider legitimate and what she wants to "show without demonstrating" (Fellini's quote). It is full of people in the world who have the envy and malice of the main character, of people who plan their moves with perfidiousness, but certainly and fortunately not all and not most arrive at such practical and dramatic situations. Finally it is an educational movie that should be shown in high schools all over the world to teach everyone to cure their complexes, accept them and improve their lives. A film that will be rated very low (without objectivity) by those who identify with the character or by those who claim that gays, problematic nerd people or bisexuals and mulattoes are always on the good side, cancel culture did not yet exist in 2006, the year in which it is set and everything was experienced more lightly than 2024. There is no racism or censure in this story, no offense for anybody except for human dignity, it's liberal in every scene. It is a message in favor of human beings and good people with some good values like the co-protagonist, and even the rest of his family have perversions, probably having mental disorders, being crazily naive and practically stupids but they were good fellas. No moralist but cool people will be very upset for many scenes and if you have a soul you will know it too.