Is the Mission truly over?

I watched Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, which was different from what I expected. I'm not sure if they borrowed some concepts from Scientology in this one, but they pulled on some of Tom's previous work, such as Minority Report.

The movie poses some interesting prospects considering super AIs and what they have the potential to do. It's almost like it was an anti-Matrix storyline that brought things back into perspective, as that coincides with a time where AI is taking over pretty much everything.

I guess you might say this is the 2020s take on similar ideals from Terminator and other sci-fi action flicks. And that wasn't exactly what I had in mind when I decided to watch the movie. But, it's not necessarily a bad thing that Ethan Hunt is set to face in this movie, but the practical risk of modern times. Which is consequently important if we look at how this movie might touch on things that are actually happening in the world.

I think that's important, and I can appreciate the objective mission that was used thematically within this latest installment.

It begins with a very perplexing starting point, but that's good because it helps to make sense of things as you travel through the movie. One good thing about it is how character-driven the story is, which is pretty on point for Mission: Impossible films, but this one, being the final one, gives some idea that everything ties together to produce a life. In this movie, that life is Ethan Hunt's, and so far it's been one where, despite being one who was prone to rebellion, shows the character of a man with a heart for humanity and who would sacrifice anything to retain the welfare of mankind. This is what makes Ethan one of the strongest threats in the world, and that is something that any “wise” computer program is bound to detect at some point.

If computers are set on programming, one of the things that they are meant to detect is patterns - this makes sense when you consider what coders do in order to create the internet and the many websites and functionalities we rely on every day.

Considering this truth, we have to take a deeper look at things and understand how many of these machines we rely on daily, and how they can impact our lives in both good and bad ways alike. This is why there was an adage of technology being like an axe in the hands of a murderer, and why we have to look at movies that present us with fictional possibilities that can easily become our nightmare realities.

But is it a good movie? Yes, I found it to be both unique and a reminder of the past, which is what the best science fiction movies do when combined with an action premise. This is the deep state type of secrecy that we think is non-existent, or we want to ignore, but this new movie doesn't allow us to escape it.

It puts it right in our face, and shows how the biggest threat to humanity now isn't a nuclear fallout, or even broadspread world war - it is instead the possiblity of data being collected by a super computer that can be outfitted for genocide and Holocaust and keeps the humans completely out of it in such a way as to give them a sort of plausible deniability, but is it deniable?

If the setting up of an artificially intelligent being hellbent on destroying humanity is ever possible, could we see the need for a real Ethan Hunt one day?

Better yet, will we even have one?

That is where I drop off to say watch the movie and ask yourself that.