The clock has run out on Ethan Hunt.
Then again, Tom Cruise seems to do almost everything like he’s running out of time. After three decades and eight films, everything that star/producer Cruise has left on his “Mission: Impossible� bucket list comes down to this. Every jaw-dropping stunt, every unexplored location, every friend and foe, new and old, he has to fit it all into “Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning,� and like Ethan Hunt, he just might die trying.
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