We’ve finally arrived at Ethan Hunt’s final reckoning, after almost 30 years of seeing Tom Cruise ’s espionage hero in action. The 2025 movie schedule has been marketed as the end of the Mission: Impossible series - at least for Cruise, anyway.

Sure, the film is entertaining, and Tom Cruise wows in the last 30 minutes. But the first two hours leave much to be desired.

That said, co-writer and director Christopher McQuarrie may have slightly overextended himself with what is meant to be the epic finale for the saga of the man called Ethan Hunt: not long after the release of the 2023 installment “Dead Reckoning — Part One,