For nearly 30 years, Tom Cruise and his collaborators on the Mission: Impossible series have made a series of what are cosmetically spy movies that, at their core, have really tried to perfect the art of the heist movie. With the latest entry, The Final Reckoning, he and writer-director Christopher McQuarrie have certainly made the biggest heist film of all time, if an imperfect one.

The blow-by-blow plot is so inscrutable that I don’t think it would be possible to spoil or even explain. Cruise, as Impossible Mission Force agent Ethan Hunt, along with his team, have to find the woman so they can find the guy who stole the thing that plugs into the other thing that they have to bring to the place to stop the AI by putting another thing into a thing while Cruise does aerial acrobatics or else all the nukes go off. The overall plot is pretty simple: Ethan has to stop a self-aware artificial intelligence from destroying the world with nuclear weapons.