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Mission: Impossible should never have gone full sci-fi


Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning wastes too much time on a clunky AI story, and not enough on the series' strengths.

That's a trend that truly kicked off with the JJ Abrams-directed Mission: Impossible 3, which relied on a standard MacGuffin (the "Rabbit's Foot") and a powerhouse Philip Seymour Hoffman villain performance to send Ethan and his team gallivanting around the world. With Ghost Protocol, director Brad Bird used his experience in animation and love of silent film to turn Cruise into a modern-day Buster Keaton, hopping from one elaborate set-piece to another. There is no hope but Ethan Hunt, who must seek out the Entity's source code in a sunken Russian submarine and try to stop it from annihilating humanity (while also trying to survive the apocalypse in an underground data bunker).

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