I never saw the first-part Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (2023), but only the second-part Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning (2025), so I’m at a disadvantage. Doesn’t matter. I was aware of the film’s very, very high stakes and enjoyed Ethan Hunt’s nerve-racking efforts—fleshed out by age-defying Tom Cruise—to defeat the “anti-God” A.I. . . As usual, the movie is enthralling-looking. It has little humor and nothing cheesy, and would have been rated G in the Seventies. The cast is agreeable, and I think Hunt and Hayley Atwell‘s Grace love each other. Neither is terribly glamorous here. Doesn’t matter. (Cruise is 62. This is, incidentally, the last MI film.)