Impossibleseries aren't immune to the recent trend of messy franchise retrospectives. Time and time again, the final entries in our most popular franchises, rather than going out with a bang, spend their runtime reflecting on the lore and legacy of its primary character.

In an early party scene, he gives us a brief soliloquy, delivered with Cruise’s patented help-me-help-you rectitude, about traffic patterns: “It’s amazing. It’s like a living organism.”