There are chases.

My goodness, so many chases.

Car and truck chases. Motorcycle chases. A skydiving chase. Foot chases (running AND walking) There's even a helicopter chase.

And they are very well done; Sets, settings, photography; all are technically brilliant and absolutely gorgeous.

In fact, ALL of "Mission Impossible-Fallout" is technically spectacular. Even the acting is textbook precise.

But I found the movie cold and clinical. Such emotional connections as were attempted were all used as plot twists. And on that subject, "MI-Fallout" is overly complicated, as if the writers were TRYING to create a tour du force of bewildering, labyrinthine plot twists.

I did note one fascinating evolution in the series: This mission makes it clear that in the operational strategy of the IMF (Impossible Mission Force), reliance on luck is a formal tactic. "I'm working on it."

For action, "MI-Fallout" is a series of exhilarating set pieces. As a movie, "MI-Fallout" is a series of action set pieces.