Given how it's been framed as Ethan Hunt's grand send-off to the Mission: Impossible franchise, The Final Reckoning was always going to elicit big, bold reactions from critics and early audiences. But even The Entity itself might not have foreseen just how mixed the response would be to the eighth Mission: Impossible instalment.
Inverse's Hoai-Tran Bui captured the general mood of critics and audiences who were lucky enough to watch The Final Reckoning early, commenting that the M:I sendoff was "kind of a big, beautiful, chaotic mess. But it’s got a sequence so nerve-shreddingly tense I almost threw up, and Tom Cruise in peak Buster Keaton mode. Looney Tunes antics. I loved it."
