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Bit of a disappointment after the high standards of so many previous ones. It's all very 'this might be the last one, global stakes' portentous and slow, it doesn't keep a light touch while maintaining the stakes and not winking at camera, unlike the best of them. There aren't any classic M:I heists or anything like that, and the action scenes weren't that thrilling; it's weird, this one felt more like it was COVID-affected than the last one did.
I didn't even really care about Luther dying, it just felt so rushed and perfunctory - why was he ill, how did Gabriel find him? Speaking of which, we never really found out the deal with Gabriel and Ethan's backstory, never got a proper confrontation between them. And the Entity doesn't have a personality so that can't really be the baddy either. Not that an M:I film needs one - Ghost Protocol did fine - but it helps! And all the 'Ethan must reckon with all his mistakes, This Is His Final Reckoning' stuff didn't work either - the Jim Phelps thing was so gratuitous, why should Ethan feel like he needs redemption on that front? And then the guy is like, I don't care about what happened with my father, I just think you're a maverick. And then there's Donlowe - I really liked them bringing him back and keeping him as part of the team, that was great, but of all the things Ethan has to atone for, it's getting this office drone reassigned? And then they contrive it so he did the guy a big favour! The whole thing just felt a bit rushed and unpolished, I think they really got a little high on their own supply and bit off more than they could chew with these last two entries.
Rating: It's okay, but I think probably my least favourite of all of them. I'd probably rather rewatch MI2 again than this one because as cheesy as it is, at least it's an hour shorter and it's got some proper action in it.
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