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.

A thrillingly doom-laden series finale, it's the most enveloping "M:I" film since "Ghost Protocol," because something's at stake.

Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt in a nearly 3-hour action movie that features breathtaking stunts, but struggles with an overstuffed plot