Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt in a nearly 3-hour action movie that features breathtaking stunts, but struggles with an overstuffed plot

The eighth (and perhaps the last) installment in the epochal Tom Cruise vehicle suffers from self-indulgent gravitas, but the best sequences are a model of action cinema at its purest.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to come check out my review of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, the eighth and final installment in Tom Cruise's blockbuster action franchise!