As someone who grew up in the years immediately following the end of the Cold War, as well as a resident of a town across the river from an Air Force base, I’ve always been scared of nuclear war. Over the years, I’ve also been something of an AI alarmist, probably from watching too many great sci-fi movies where machines take over. Well, I recently watched Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning a few months after it dropped on the 2025 movie schedule, and now I’m spiraling…
It's no surprise, right? I mean, the latest installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise manages to take two fears I’ve long thought to be somewhat irrational and unrealistic and make my anxiety seem totally plausible. It was a fun action movie with Tom Cruise going to hell and back to defeat the Entity before it destroyed the world, but it had me shook.
