Tom Cruise received a 5-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival for 'Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.'

The Final Reckoning commits is buying into its own self-importance. For years, the Mission: Impossible movies stood as a welcome bulwark against the world-building extravagance of Hollywood’s franchise craze.

A.I. was merely a creeping threat in "Dead Reckoning." Here it's a specter whose time has arrived, and that's part of what makes this a more potent adventure.