Barton Reviews

  If you haven't heard - if you haven't, you must be living under a rock - Tom Cruise is on his way to save cinemas yet again with the latest Mission: Impossible instalment. The eighth film of the franchise that has, rather surprisingly, grown from strength to strength, The Final Reckoning brings the franchise to an end with incredibly mixed results. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and the IMF team race across the world and against time to find the Entity, a rogue artificial intelligence that can destroy mankind. First off, if you thought they said "entity" a lot in Dead Reckoning , get ready for it to become the bane of your life while sitting through this film. Clocking in at just under three hours, The Final Reckoning gets off to a sluggish start with a first hour that becomes a bit of a slog to sit through - constant callbacks to the franchise's history complete with brief flashbacks to EVERY SINGLE ONE stopping the film from picking up any pace and really getting ...