First of all, Tom Cruise almost never misses when it comes to movies. I don't believe I have ever been disappointed in a TC movie ever. Also, MI Fallout was one of the best MI movies ever made. The bathroom fight scene, Henry Cavill, the helicopter chase scene were all top notch. I think of MI movies as each chapter topping the last one.

Dead Reckoning on the other hand was just plain annoying with Grace continuously running away for no apparent reason at all for the first hour of the movie. There's no mystery, the audience is already aware of the nature of the danger. The characters are finding out about the danger after the audience, which in itself make the audience hypercritical of non sensical choices made by the characters.

Hayley Atwell stated somewhere that she thinks of Tom Cruise as her uncle. I understand that there's 20-year gap between the two, but either don't do the movie, or don't poop on it. You can't have your cake.... While watching the two on screen together, this is all I could think about making the experience quite cringy.

Also, there are no awesome moments in the entire movie. The highly touted motorcycle jump is to a movie as the whoppie cusion is to dark comedy. Just didn't meet the high expectations.

I am hoping that the next/last chapter makes up for this disappointment.