There’s no denying that the two big set pieces of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning are incredible. Each is one of the most impossible missions star Tom Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie have ever conceived or shot, and each is probably worth the price of admission alone.
Unfortunately, though, there are two other hours of the movie surrounding them.
As we watched The Final Reckoning, and the film continues to hammer you over the head with extraneous narrative and repetitive exposition, our minds began to wander. We had questions about specific scenes, lines of dialogue, decisions made within the plot, etc. And so we…