Critics have mixed feelings about Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, with comments about the film's serious tone overshadowing its adventurous spirit. While the film, releasing on May 23, is praised for impressive stunts and Tom Cruise's commitment to the role, some reviews indicate it struggles with 'Solemnity Overload,' citing a tone that clashes with the series' traditional excitement. Even its Cannes reception, marked by a standing ovation, may be influenced more by Cruise's fame than the film's substance. The film features notable new characters while occasionally referencing past movies, which received mixed receptions.
"Is Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning a disaster or a triumph? I genuinely enjoyed watching this picture, although I worried constantly during the first hour that we were in for a total shipwreck. (At least, until we got to the actual shipwreck.) That worry doesn't entirely dissipate during the second half. The whole enterprise reeks of Marvel-itis with its endless callbacks." -Bilge Ebiri, Vulture
"It is a wildly silly, wildly entertaining adventure which periodically gives us a greatest-hits flashback montage of the other seven films in the M:I canon - but we still get a brand new, box-fresh Tom-sprinting-along-the-street scene, without which it wouldn't be M:I. Moreover, this eighth film gives us a terrific new character, U.S. sub commander Capt. Bledsoe, played with suavi"
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