Tom Cruise riding again as Ethan Hunt returns to Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, the reported last outing of nearly three decades of explosive missions, daring stunts, and unforgettable disguises. For many hopeful fans, the film’s possible conclusion—a post–credits scene—never materializes, making for the last cinematic hurrah to a whole era.
No Post-Credits Scene, Just a Clean Goodbye
IGN denies that there’s a mid- or post-credits scene in The Final Reckoning. This is a surprising decision for fans now used to Marvel-style epilogues and others who were hoping for either the promise of a spinoff or a final bow. Truth be told, but Mission: Impossible doesn’t need apostrophes in the scene. It’s never directed its storytelling outward from the runtime into something else.
And so when the credits begin rolling, audiences are safe to leave—or stay behind and give those hundreds of people who helped execute the film’s jaw-dropping stunts their due. It’s a clean break, and that befits a franchise that didn’t much care for dangling mysteries or forced cliffhangers.
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A Wild, Over-the-Top Farewell
IGN’s review of the film highlighted its high-stakes action and dramatic tone, but The Indian Express paints a much more colorful—and critical—world of Captain Fantastic. Just like how the film is compared to a Bollywood thriller, the plot and the direction of the film are similar to those of an Abbas–Mustan film. Then you know The Final Reckoning is packed to its spine-tingling spine with wild twists, dramatic monologues, and extremity spoon feeding, all filtered through an extremely earnest and borderline parodic kind of seriousness.
He faces off his main antagonist, The Entity: an artificial intelligence gone rogue. Produced entirely with artificial intelligence, the AI is so powerful that it needs to be captured with something that feels more like a sci fi genie’s lamp, not a spy thriller device. Though, Cruise’s Hunt is almost godlike and he refuses this mantle, giving us proof of his moral superiority.
Ethan Hunt: Man, Myth, Demigod?
Yet the movie all but tries too hard to make Ethan Hunt from a skilled agent into a divine force. The first scenes in the film find the President of the United States praising him as “the best of men in the worst of times.” From there it goes even dramatically. Characters speak about how much they reverence Hunt, and they say the stakes over and over. They will even retell scenes simply to emphasize the point.
And the film even sports a scene straight from a Bollywood romantic fantasy. Ethan then has Grace, played by Hayley Atwell, look at him and say he’s worthy of godlike power. But it’s this sort of moment that speaks to how over the top the film can get, frequently at the expense of substance or subtlety in either character or storytelling.
Heavy Dialogue, Light Surprise
There’s one thing that The Final Reckoning stands out as compared to the previous entries – it feels more talky. People constantly explain what’s going on. The reason? Maybe a response to complaints about the last movie was too hard to follow, or an attempt to make the film accessible to a wider international audience.
That constant exposition makes the movie’s natural tension a little harder to enjoy. This will make things slow down and make shocking moments less dissonant. It begins to feel bloated — that lean, thrilling Mission: Impossible formula.
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A Confused Ending to a Legendary Franchise
All its flaws notwithstanding, The Final Reckoning attempts to provide Ethan Hunt with a final chapter that is both (the ultimate endgame that is) mythic and andaction-paction-packedonal payoff is lacking, as well as the movie stays over dramatic when it doesn’t need to. The tension often doesn’t land, but it was still raised to world-ending levels.
