Ironically, the most entertaining element of all may be the star's advancing age; Cruise, well into his 50s, scores numerous laughs as the increasingly confused CIA agent, leaping into one spectacular stunt after another and then wishing he hadn't.

| Dec 21, 2018

The thought crosses the mind: Where can it go from here? The answer is pretty much everywhere. It keeps on going and going, following one exciting sequence with another and then another.

| Dec 21, 2018

I stayed to the final credit, in case there was a clever tag, but I didn't feel cheated when there wasn't one. I needed the time to catch my breath.

| Sep 27, 2018

Mission: Impossible - Fallout is a delirious fantasy which delivers a super-sized kick.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 27, 2018

Mission Impossible is the greatest film franchise in cinematic history

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 26, 2018

F. Scott Fitzgerald said "action is character" -- which, if true, means the Ethan Hunt we see in Fallout is the most complex movie character of all time.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 24, 2018

Mission: Impossible - Fallout is packed with amazing action sequences and an effectively twisty-turny plot, taking the franchise to new heights.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 17, 2018

Mission: Impossible - Fallout is an unrelentingly consistent action movie, with not a single sequence wasted before the next big stunt.

| Aug 7, 2018

What McQuarrie and Cruise do well, with minimal dialogue needed, is make it clear that IMF agent Ethan Hunt has become more vulnerable.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 3, 2018

With the Resident Evil saga apparently complete and no further Mad Max adventures on the immediate horizon, Mission: Impossible must qualify as the best Hollywood action series now going.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 2, 2018

The kind of exciting, adrenaline-pumping and visceral movie-going experience Mission: Impossible is known for and delivers

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 2, 2018

The sixth film in the surprisingly venerable series is a bit more deliberate, but delivers the expected jolts and thrills.

| Aug 2, 2018

Part of the Mission: Impossible franchise's charm is that it has never bothered much with continuity.

| Original Score: 7 | Aug 1, 2018

Cruise will never win an Oscar for playing Hunt, but what he does in Mission: Impossible - Fallout is surely at least as taxing as, say, Leonardo DiCaprio's role in The Revenant, with the added obligation of making it look like fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2018

The problem with constructing a movie as one long making-of sequence is that, if it's a movie as inert as this one, it doesn't so much answer the question "How was it made?" as pose another one altogether: Why?

| Jul 30, 2018

You can scoff at the antics and still be swept away.

| Jul 30, 2018

McQuarrie cleverly controls the ticking clock quality that makes these films so much fun.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2018

The most thrilling, entertaining, stand-on-your-feet-this-is-bananas blockbuster in recent memory.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 27, 2018

Bless this franchise, we're truly not worthy.

| Original Score: A | Jul 27, 2018

Brilliant. You're constantly on edge.

| Original Score: A | Jul 27, 2018