"Mission Impossible—The Final Reckoning"
Audiences love paying up to see Tom Cruise risk life and limb, from Paramount Pictures

"Mission Impossible—The Final Reckoning"

Tom Cruise proves that audiences will still line up to watch him do the impossible.

By Peter Travers

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Coming in second on the Moneymakers chart this week is “Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning,” the eighth and supposedly final chapter in Tom Cruise’s personal obstacle course. OK, the film’s $77 million take seems like chump chance compared to the zowie $183 million that “Lilo & Stitch” collected during the same time period.