Impossible - The Final Reckoning" (opening Friday) is indeed the last entry in the juggernaut that is the Tom Cruise-led "Mission: Impossible" film franchise, then it may be just as well. This disappointing installment,

The Final Reckoning, the eighth film in the franchise and ostensibly its finale, looks, feels, and sounds like the sort of movie you need to see on the big screen. The powers that be at the Cannes Film Festival clearly thought so too: the picture premiered here on May 14.

The film has passed censorship and been dated despite the China Film Administration's recent announcement that it would “moderately reduce” the number of U.S. films