That’s just part of what bogs down The Final Reckoning. In fact the movie is slow out of the gate as it has to set up what has happened in the two months between the end of Dead Reckoning, the basics of the plot and a quick “best-of” clip from the franchise before things really get going.

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning positions itself as a final bow for the series and Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt, but the actual movie’s ending challenges that.

Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt in a nearly 3-hour action movie that features breathtaking stunts, but struggles with an overstuffed plot