I was needing what it had to offer.

M:I-1 and M:I-2 = skippable practice runs.

M:I-3 = when the franchise ~really~ begins.

…and then each gets better than the last, peaking with M:I-7 Dead Reckoning (2023) 🙌🏻

M:I-8 (2025)? Feels like they made a movie out of all the leftover action sequences from M:I-7. 

Not bad, but not as smart.

NDA

What would have otherwise been a two-star movie is elevated by the five-star performances of Skarsgård, Rudd, and Theroux — with Rudd, in particular, like you’ve never experienced him.

Once you've waded through rehashed cyberpunk dystopia (for too long a stretch), this trio of characters might reward you by film’s end, and in high Greco-Shakespearean fashion.