“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.

Say what you will about the Impossible Mission Force, but the opportunities for internal career development are pretty good. Back in 1996, Ethan Hunt was a junior agent who was packed off to Prague to retrieve a floppy disc: 29 years later,