With an estimated budget of $400 million, Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning (Paramount, 5.23) is…you tell me. The same old same old, of course, but the trailer is too fast and frenzied for my taste. The first half is like an M:I greatest hits reel, and the second half is poppity-pop-pop…aaaggghh!…helter skelter stuff.

It’s good to see Holt McCallany as the Secretary of Defense, and I’m not scared of Nick Offerman this time as I’m fairly certain we won’t have to watch him step out of a bathroom wearing a bath towel or, you know, get blown by a bear.

Which 60something black actor is fatter or spends more time sitting down than Ving Rhames? I’m asking.

Two little biplanes…one red, one yellow, both freshly painted. Very handsome.

My favorite shot, seriously, is the one of Tom Cruise leaping out of a chopper and falling into choppy seas.

Final Reckoning is going to have to come up with something pretty hairy to top the dangling train-car finale from the last one.