This is probably the most action - heavy and stunt - heavy of all 7 fiilms, and in my mind, one of the weakest. The issue is that the action isn't as motivated by story as it should be. For instance, the HALO jump is just a result of the characters needing to get to a fancy dress party quickly, and not having the time to land the plane. Or, take Tom Cruise running and jumping at full speed across London rooftops, even breaking his ankle, just to catch up to a character who is walking at a leisurely pace on the streets.

A lot of the set pieces come off as excuses to include stunts which Tom Cruise wants to perform. Story - wise, it's many of the same 'Mission' ingredients. Isla is back, and her allegiances are still shifting. Solomon Lane is back, and he's still out to kill innocent people. There's the same twists, the double and triple - crossing, and the endless mask reveals. With all of McQuarrie's 'M:I' films, he crams a ridiculous number of twists ontop of twists into short dialogue scenes and in rapid succession, to the point where you can't follow them all, and they don't feel they have any effect on the overarching story.

The heists were often the highlights of these films, and thankfully, 'M:I - 7' corrected some of the wrongs from 'Fallout' by scaling back on the action and bringing back the heist sequences.