- Sensibility: The franchise standard miraculous survivals (particularly bothersome is the opening shootout on horses in the desert) are annoying, the first interaction between Ethan and
Grace is legitimately insane, and the AI's complexity brings a large host of unanswered questions and plot holes.
- Cinematography: The film's focus on hand-to-hand combat becomes tiresome quickly, particularly by the time the sword fight comes out. However, the film has a lot to offer visually particularly
around the train sequences. Production design is generally great, but the AI visuals are like looking at an EDM concert.
- Energy: The film is honestly quite dull until the train sequence near the end. Luckily, this sequence is probably worth the wait.
- Narrative: The AI concept is honestly pretty solid. Interesting, thought provoking, and the idea that a character has devoted himself entirely to the predicitons of the algorithm is excellent
and realistic. However, it's crazy that this film felt the need to introduce some arbitrary old death that Ethan experienced which forced him into the IMF when there are 6 previous films with material to
reference and none of them mention this character defining event: this is honestly just hack writing. Also, "gone like smoke in a hurricane" is hilariously bad writing.
- T-Points: The film received three bonus points: one for the AI concept even with its flawed execution, one for the cliff jump, and one for the sequence climbing up the falling train.
Solid film with a lot to offer but also a lot of mistakes. Has great concepts but some mis-steps in execution.
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