Tom Cruise’s Last Mission: Impossible Movie Ends Domestic Box Office Run Painfully Short of Final Milestone

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  1. I wanted to watch this in theatres but generally could only go evenings….this thing is 2:49 of just runtime. With pre show and trailers it’s 3:20, door to door seeing this movie is a 4 hour event. Meaning so if I got to an 8pm showing ill be home just before midnight

    And not I’ll still need to set aside 3 hours to watch this movie at home…that’s a lot of time

  2. Big oof. Barbenheimer gave MI the beatdown last time up as well

  3. I’m reckoning they’ll be short with the final total.

  4. It is an amazing 30 minute movie packed into a two hour and 49 minute run time.

  5. It was an OK film with some good action scenes but didn’t really have any decent story or characters. Could probably have cut a lot of it and tightened it up.

  6. I saw it twice in theater. The runtime wasn’t an issue for me but absolutely kept some people out of the cinema I’m sure. 

  7. I got spoiled as to the ending so I did not want to spend money on seeing it in theaters.

    The earlier MI movies are better than the last few too so I was more motivated to see it in theaters. Now I’d rather be comfy on my couch to watch a ~3hr movie and pause whenever I need to.

  10. I watched the movie in theatres. It’s… fine. It’s a solid movie but I was expecting a lot more, personally. I rate the last 4 movies pretty high but Dead Reckoning was already a dropoff in quality from Fallout. Still, I was expecting great things and it only delivered on Good things

  11. I feel like it might be time for tom cruise to come to terms with his age and take roles that are more true to that age.

    The desperation from Tom to get everyone back into theaters with stunt promos seemed a little sad to me, it feels like he’s fighting father time, gravity, and peoples’ changing interests all at the same time. He must be tired.

    I would love to see him take a role in a more grounded film, I think he’d be great in dialogue or character work, and it could really burst him back into the scene with more dimension than just being an aging action star.

  12. I love the movie, but Gabriel certainly has a lot of megaton bombs at his disposal.

  13. Who is still watching this shit? It’s been redundant since the third entry

  15. Weird how it wrapped up everything kinda like we expected it to, except for the bad guy >!the way he died was f-ckn’ weak!<

    Movie was way longer than it needed to be.

  16. I don’t like movie theaters anymore, expensive tickets, inconvenient, inconsiderate people

    And you want me to spend how long in there?

  17. I saw it in theaters and do not remember anything from it. Fallout is the last Mission Impossible I really remember.

  18. Reckoning Part 1 felt like shitty fanfic compared to Fallout.

    Had no desire to see the sequel after the horrible writing (which was shocking), stupid story/lame villain, and killing off one of the best characters ever in the franchise.

    I couldn’t believe after the previous few films, Reckoning was actually by the same guy (McQ).

  21. The story arc was far too complex. You needed to be an expert on the twists and turns in the story from his very first MI film to this final one to follow the plot well.

  22. Tom has done great for himself in the action genre. But he’s getting old. He’s a good actor. He should try doing more comedies. He was legendary in Tropic Thunder.

  23. Was it me or did they pull back on the marketing? I feel like I heard about Dead Reckoning everywhere and this one kinda came and went

  24. Currently watching it on a cross country flight. It’s good, doing a lot of heavy lifting trying to tie all the prior movies to a conclusion when those movies weren’t really intended to be one long narrative. The runtime, while not an issue since I’m a captive audience, is a lot for an action film in a time when audiences just don’t have the attention span for long films. Shame, Cruise’s dedication to films and these films in particular is rarely seen so it’s kind of a shame it wasn’t more of a success.

  25. Cannot blame audiences people/movie goers. Watched on theatre and was a terrible film. Long, boring, misleading, just to name a few.

  26. The action scenes were still high bar achievements just from a practical point of view, but the script being a complete mess was very surprising from this pair. It went all in on member berries at the expense of the taut Rube Goldberg-esque spy adventure/thriller of their past entries, while turning Ethan Hunt into an actual superhero with superpowers and a superdestiny that only he can achieve. At almost every turn the dialogue was painfully on the nose and barely above functional (did we really need Katy O’Brien to explain the ENTIRE concept of decompression sickness to World Elite Super Spy Ethan Hunt?), to the point where I was rolling my eyes whenever the big stunts weren’t happening. As a thirty-year-long fan of McQuarrie’s innate ability with dialogue, this was some painful stuff to swallow.

    Over the course of the bloated near-three hour runtime, one thing became very clear above all else: McQ and Cruise blinked when Dead Reckoning didn’t pop off like Top Gun did, and this entire film was reactionary, which automatically put them at a disadvantage. They didn’t trust the audience this time around, and it shows.

  27. I’m a fan of the series and enjoyed it in general, although there seemed to be a lot recapping previous events out of anxiety that people who didn’t see the last film wouldn’t know what was going on. I understand why that was done but I would have cut a lot of that and tightened up the script a bit.

    My series ranking:

    Rogue Nation

    Ghost Protocol

    Fallout

    Dead Reckoning Part 1

    MI:3

    Final Reckoning

    MI

    MI:2

  28. Because it was a disgrace to the whole series. The first 30-45min was completely puzzling, I kept thinking this must be a joke.

  29. It felt like the plot was very loose to just get us from set piece to set piece. However some of the set pieces are the best if not in the top half of the series.

    The scene where Hunt gets strapped into the Entity was cool

    The submarine scene was incredibly tense.

    The plane scene stunt was worth the price of admission alone.

  30. I came out of Fallout thinking it was one of the best action movies of the last several years and the best M:I movie to date. Was super hyped for Dead Reckoning. I really liked it but there were obvious issues with cinematography/editing and blocking in scenes that I chalked up to Covid related production issues. It was still good, but waaaay more talky and exposition-y than it ever needed to be. Then Final Recking hit and I felt really let down. Like they took all the elements of DR that didn’t work and doubled down. So much exposition. I laughed out loud at scenes clearly not intended for comedy (Offerman’s final scene, Cruise apparently running as fast as a Jeep to the airfield) and yawned myself into a jaw cramp. Fallout was the perfect end to the series.

  31. It was a terrible movie. If you haven’t watched it don’t bother.

  33. I didn’t feel like that needed to be two movies. Ending did not pay off.

  34. Why is the last decade of Tom Cruise’s career just “hey guys, check out these stunts!”?

    Like, what a fucking disappointing arc for a guy that is genuinely a fantastic actor.

  35. With the arrival of smartphones, I believe people’s attention has decreased more and more over the years. I myself struggle to watch a movie without using my phone at the same time. Being stuck in a cinema for almost three hours is just unimaginable for a lot of people now.

  37. Did the lady from Dune come back to life? If yes I’ll watch final movie

  38. I’m excited for the miniseries about how Tom Cruise convinced Paramount to give him $700 million to make 6+ hours worth of Scientology chik tracts.

  39. Honestly keen to watch this. Just didn’t get round to it

  42. Tom is an amazing stunt man for his age, but he’s a pathetic actor.

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