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,

Saving the world often enough has a way of inflating any superstar’s ego. Early in “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,” the bulky, sentimental, slightly pious but nonetheless