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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning | The Deight Night Review

Back in 2023, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 released in cinemas to a very positive response from critics and audiences alike continuing on the series' penchant for gripping action with death defying stunts performed almost solely by the franchise's lead - in every sense of the word - Tom Cruise. Though it wore the fact it wasn't a complete finale very much on its sleeve, the film did have a more or less complete story even if it did indeed lead more into its follow up than any other film in the franchise, with the film's villains, the Entity and Gabriel (Esai Morales) being very much still at large - albeit with the latter given a big setback having had the key to the doomed submarine, the Sevastopol, and the Entity's weakness taken by Cruise's Ethan Hunt.  Unfortunately for the franchise, Dead Reckoning Part 1 did not perform fantastically at the box office. Many theroised this was due to the film advertising that it wouldn't have a definiti...

Final Destination Bloodlines | The Deight Night Review

Every single Final Destination film has the same story, the main character (who's always a young man or woman) becomes the victim of a random but tragic massacre that occurs due to some form of negligence or another. The film then flashes back to moments before the tragedy begins where the main character realsies they saw a premonition of what's to come and with that new information saves as many people as they can before the inevitable. After they have survived, Death cleans up the mess that has been made by the main character and kills the survivors in the order they were meant to die in various random and harrowing ways, giving audiences new fears of everyday items with each franchise entry.  Final Destination Bloodlines , after five films of recycling the same concept over and over and a 14 year gap, finally switches up the formula with it's brutal and franchise-best opening. Writers Jon Watts, Lori Evans Taylor and Gus Busick take audiences back to the 1950s where a c...