14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
‘Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning' Review: The Cult of Tom Cruise
'Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning' (opening May 23) features a key in the form of a cross, a St. Christopher medal and references to Noah's Ark but reserves its reverence for its onscreen savior, messiah and chosen one. 'A Tom Cruise production,' the credits tell us, and you won't forget it for a single moment.
That need not be a bad thing. The producer-star delivered the two best offerings in the series since the original 1996 feature with 2018's 'Mission: Impossible—Fallout' and 2023's 'Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One' (calling the latest edition Part Two might have been a subtitle too many). This time, though, the story falters.
