“Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning,” a Paramount Pictures release in theaters Friday, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association for “bloody images, action, brief language, and sequences of strong violence.” Running time: 179 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.

Nearly three decades after Tom Cruise first donned the mantle of Ethan Hunt, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning arrives as the swan song to one of cinema’s most adrenaline-fueled franchises. Directed once again by Christopher McQuarrie,