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When I watch a series I demand things be a certain way. I need a black gay female heroine. I need her to be smarter than everyone else in the series. I need her to have more empathy than everyone else in the series. I need all the males to be corrupt criminal degenerates and all the female to be either victims or made to do bad things by men, all the while deeply regretting it. And I need a minimal amount of white people onscreen. Those that are should be liquidated as soon as the plot allows. Happily, this magical production checks all the boxes. I highly recommend it. After all, what is a series if it doesn't shove an ideology down your throat episode after episode? It's nothing, that's what!

This is a poor addition to the library of MI movies. Cruise is played for laughs, with slapstick stunts that aren't funny and all of his edge is removed as he is constantly one-upped by the new additions, who themselves have precious little charisma. Tinseltown Tom also looks jowly and botoxed and seems to have been slightly manipulated at points by CGI or AI or de-aging-God only knows. The action scenes are eternally long but don't ratchet up the tension. It felt in some ways like a swan song for hapless Ethan Hunt and a franchise looking to extend itself with new young lackluster characters.