If it is true that Ethan Hunt survives the events of the eighth “mission: impossible”, it is not for lack of endangering. As in the previous film, Ethan’s key mission in this entry is to compete and, hope, to destroy the entity, an enigmatic and apparently all-powerful AI which is controlling the nuclear arsenal of all the main countries of the world. There is, as usual, a check clock; Ethan has three days to arrest the entity before the President of the United States (Angela Bassett, resuming his role as “mission: Impossible – Fallout”) threatens to dismiss a preventive strike against other countries in the hope of dissuading the entity. And there are, as usual, cascades defying the death that Ethan must make to help carry out his mission. Although marketing has relied heavily on the biplane sequence which serves as a piece of the culmination of the film, the most dangerous waterfall seems to appear in the middle, while Ethan goes to hundreds of meters below the surface of the ocean to recover the source code of the entity, buried deeply in a Russian submarine for a long time. This prolonged sequence, taking place in relative silence, pushes Ethan to the edge to the point where he must be revived at length by Pickpocket Grace (Hayley Atwell).

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But there, and at the end after Ethan managed to connect the entity to a “poison pill” which will help destroy its internal mechanism, Ethan manages to avoid the specter of death. This is probably not the first time that we, as a public, we have been made to ask ourselves if it is the last impossible mission of Ethan Hunt. He was relaunched from the edge of death in “Mission: Impossible III”, and he barely avoided nuclear apocalypse in the aforementioned entry of 2018, “Mission: Impossible – Fallout”. (On a smaller scale, he did the same at the end of “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol”, where a well -timed disarmament of a nuclear bomb avoided the disaster in San Francisco.) And yet, Ethan continues to kick, often with a slightly reconfigured version of his IMF team. In this regard, this “final” film is not different, with Ethan, the last overview in London, giving heavy heads to Benji (Simon Pegg), Grace, Paris (Pom Klemetieff) and Degas (Greg Tarzan Davis). If there is a ninth film, it would undoubtedly be his counterparts on what comes next.

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But what can Then come for Ethan Hunt, who has not been seen before? Without a doubt, the waterfalls in this film are crazy and impressive and terrifying, to an equal measure. But this film, perhaps rightly so as the entity itself, seems sufficiently aware of oneself to not only reference previous films deliberately by dialogue and intrigue, but through these waterfalls. (There have been so many dangerous waterfalls in the franchise that we have classified here.) Ethan having to do something incredibly crazy underwater happened in a fairly memorable way in the action sequence in the middle of the film in “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” and “Mission: Impossible – Fallout” cultivated with a crazy action sequence in which Ethan sets up a helicopter to chase the main villain, which pilots another hatch. Cascades here do not feel like lazy, but similarities are impossible (Natch) to ignore. Ethan Hunt may not die here, but perhaps this should Be the end of the series “Mission: Impossible”.