In ‘Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning,’ Tom Cruise is too controlled

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Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. Paramount Pictures and Skydance

Paramount Pictures and Skydance

Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.

Paramount Pictures and Skydance

In Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Tom Cruise has to save the world (again). But this time, as the movie stresses repeatedly, the stakes are really, really high. Higher than the buildings Tom sprints across or the planes he fights bad guys on. There’s an AI that wants to destroy humanity, and Tom and his allies try to pull off the feat of all our lifetimes. Will he? Does it even matter? It’s Tom Cruise doing Tom Cruise things in London, the Bering Sea, and beyond.

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