From: ijball@mac.invalid   
      
   On 2/5/26 9:21 AM, The True Melissa wrote:   
      
   > What did everyone else watch?   
      
   I finally got around to watching "Mission Impossible: The Final   
   Reckoning" on the Pee+. On balance, it didn't really work for me. I did   
   like Esai Morales chewing the scenery as the EVOL!! baddie. And there   
   were some amazing stunts in this (though the planes sequence probably   
   goes on too long). I also liked a few of the callbacks to the earlier   
   films (though there weren't enough of those), esp. the minor character   
   they pulled from the first film to make a major supporting character   
   here. But I think they really needed to kill Ethan Hunt off at the end   
   of this one, and didn't, so the "open-ended" ending really didn't work   
   for me - this is the film they really should have used to completely   
   wrap up the "Ethan Hunt arc".   
      
   I guess I've mostly enjoyed this franchise (though I still think "II"   
   was a massive dog!). But my favorite is still "Ghost Protocol" ("IV"?),   
   and all the ones after that seemed to generally decline from there,   
   especially as they kept getting rid of some of the franchise's better   
   cast members.   
      
   So, in the end, "Final Reckoning", which also took itself too seriously   
   (on top of its ridiculous AI-takes-over-the-world premise!), left me   
   mostly "blah".   
      
   I also watched some DOOL, but it's not worth recapping.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)