It's all been leading to this. For the eighth and (potentially) final time, Tom Cruise has put his life on the line to bring pure cinema to the masses with "Mission: Impossible -- The Final Reckoning." This latest installment of the action franchise has been a long time coming, especially after 2023's "Dead Reckoning" ended on a fairly literal cliffhanger. Ethan Hunt came up against the greatest foe he's ever encountered in decades while working for the Impossible Mission Force -- relevantly enough, a nefarious artificial intelligence known only as "The Entity." With every country's intelligence community looking for ways to turn such a superpower to their own agendas, Hunt and his tight-knit team of agents had to go rogue (of course) and do everything they could to stop this Entity and its human ally, the mysterious Gabriel (Esai Morales), from essentially taking over the world.

Where "Dead Reckoning" (formerly...