Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning: Has Tom Cruise Been Anchored?

Rumor has it that this movie could be the last one (at #8) of this iconic franchise.  It's not one of the best, but it still is good enough to see on the B.S., assuming that you are an M.I. fan. "The Entity" is a A/I villain who has a plan to wipe out about just about all of humanity!  "The Entity" (TE) has taken control of all the nuclear arsenals in the world (except for the USA), and will launch enough of them to incinerate all the major cities.  The POTUS (Angela Bassett) has the option to drop nuclear weapons on the world's most important cities (as well as a major US city so that the U.S. is sacrificing too), in order to minimize the damage.  She will kill 400 million people, but save billions of lives.  Her military advisors are suggesting that she choose that option.  In just a few days, many US cities will be obliterated, since TE will bomb all the US cities from the nuclear arsenals in other countries. In desperation, POTUS begs Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) to neutralize TE before this cataclysmic event occurs.  Ethan is reluctant to take on the mission – which appears to have about a 1% chance of being successful as well as him and his team returning alive – but Ethan has a "savior complex," so he agrees.  Further complicating matters, a power-hungry megalomaniac, Gabriel (Esai Morales), has a strategy to capture TE and make the world submit to his will.  (I think this plot is ridiculous because how could a power-hungry megalomaniac even take over the USA, no less the world!) Anyway, Ethan and his M.I. team – Luther (Ving Rhames), Grace (Haley Alwell), and Benji (Simon Pegg) – meet up and then try to save the day!  (I won't say any more about the plot – you'll have to catch it yourself!)  On the plus side, there are several great action sequences in the last hour of the film, and the ensemble cast does a fine job.  On the downside, at 170 minutes, the movie is 45 minutes too long.  (The first 105 minutes should only have been 60).  The film also takes itself too seriously and has no comic relief.  The movie must be seen on the B.S., preferably IMAX.  I'd go to a matinee or on a weekday night because it may be "Impossible" to get a seat!