The Final Reckoning, in an unusual meta stroke, reveals what the franchise has always truly been: a man against the impossible, called upon only when the world, and the story itself, has run out of options.

The Final Reckoning, the eighth film in the franchise and ostensibly its finale, looks, feels, and sounds like the sort of movie you need to see on the big screen. The powers that be at the Cannes Film Festival clearly thought so too: the picture premiered here on May 14.