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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Two months after acquiring both halves of the cruciform key, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is ready to put an end to the Entity, once and for all. However, in that time the rogue A.I. has increased its stranglehold on cyber space and the planet. Spreading lies and misinformation, the people of the world are divided more than ever, and governments are on high alert. All of which should make it rather difficult, maybe even impossible for Ethan and his team to find a sunken Russian submarine and, use whatever they find there to kill the artificial intelligence that's slowly taking control of the world's nuclear arsenals. It is entirely possible that Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning  could be the most anxiety inducing instalment of the franchise - the second half, anyway. Once again, Tom Cruise puts himself through the absolutely ludicrous in the name of entertainment... and a possible adrenaline addiction. Every scenario in which Ethan and the gang find themselves seems to be d...

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning | Average Guy Movie Review

Once again, Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must criss-cross the globe in order to stave off Armageddon. This time in search of a very special key. The problem is; no one seems to know what it unlocks, but every one is interested in acquiring it, including governments, arms dealers and a very powerful - but rogue - artificial intelligence known as 'The Entity'. But will the IMF's propensity for pulling off the absolutely insane be enough to outsmart them all and keep whatever the key unlocks out of their grasp? Christopher McQuarrie delivers yet another high-octane instalment in the Mission: Impossible  franchise. Only this time he faces the very real dilemma of outdoing his own creation. Yes, you could argue he has done that before - Dead Reckoning  being his third Mission  movie - but this time it's a little different, given that Fallout  is widely considered to be the best movie of the franchise, and by some margin. So how do you outdo something like that? Well, ...