I had the pleasure of being part of the test screening audience and focus group after for this back in early March. 
It was the most fantastical thing I’ve ever seen on the big screen.
Maybe not the best movie I’ve ever seen but, we saw unfinished footage of the main two sequences here and, when your mind catches up with what you’re seeing and you realize you can still see a greened out pilot and un CG’ed bits of…

“Because of your unique talents you have been forgiven.”

Mission: Impossible - Fallout and Top Gun: Maverick are lean, mean, and clean. They were Cruise’s response to the takeover of pure IP, the rise of streaming, the *looming* death of the movie star in Hollywood. 
There’s a lot of emotion in them but it’s less urgent. Time is his greatest adversary, but he hasn’t run out yet.

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning is messier. Its emotions verge on unwieldy. It’s…