Mission: Impossible-The Final Reckoning (A Movie Review)
I saw Mission: Impossible -The Final Reckoning over the Memorial Day weekend. I trusted Tom Cruise to take me to other places than the present now. He did! For almost three hours, I forgot about everything on the news and my personal concerns. During his adventures, he and his crew took me places that I have never been and will not likely visit during this lifetime.
The scenery and the portals into unknown places and situations were quite intriguing. I know very little about espionage and military operations. Many of the details were a bit over my head, but I did understand that they were fighting an AI force called The Entity that wanted to wipe out humanity.
Through it all, I was able to vicariously see what life is like inside of a submarine filled with working officers. They also took us to St. Matthew Island in the Bering Sea. The arctic conditions were amazing as we saw a real dog sleigh and the warmth of a loving home in those frigid conditions lined with candles for warmth.
In spite of the constant fight against the dark forces, the locales were great eye-openers for those of us with limited world travel. We (the audience) were even taken inside a bunker in South Africa as the warring continued to rage on.
As Tom Cruise (Ethan Hunt) worked to fulfill his mission of saving mankind, he corresponded with the female President of the United States (Angela Bassett) to coordinate the mission’s success. Of course, seeing her in that position was wonderful in itself.
We see him go inside a wrecked submarine to retrieve a needed module. He saw the corpses of those who did not survive as he wore a decompression suit to make it back safely. His movement caused the wrecked submarine to shift and he barely escaped after having to discard the decompression suit to fit inside of the escape hatch. This was not a job for the claustrophobic nor the faint of heart.
The most harrowing scene was when Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) was trying to catch his arch enemy, Gabriel. They were in small open-air airplanes. After Ethan’s plane was destroyed, we see him hanging on to Gabriel’s airplane wing as Gabriel did all he could to knock him off. He flipped the plane around in all directions as he diabolically laughed. Whew! (Tom Cruise did most of his own stunts himself.)
At the end of the movie, the surviving team members all met in London’s Trafalgar Square. They simply gave each other a silent nod of acknowledgement. The mission was accomplished!
Lynn M.
May 26, 2025
