That said, co-writer and director Christopher McQuarrie may have slightly overextended himself with what is meant to be the epic finale for the saga of the man called Ethan Hunt: not long after the release of the 2023 installment “Dead Reckoning — Part One,

The Final Reckoning,” out this weekend, picks up the story from 2023’s “Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One.” Read our critic’s review of that film here.“Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning” features a key in the form of a cross,

That’s just part of what bogs down The Final Reckoning. In fact the movie is slow out of the gate as it has to set up what has happened in the two months between the end of Dead Reckoning, the basics of the plot and a quick “best-of” clip from the franchise before things really get going.