Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One 2023 ‧ Action/Adveventure

Ethan Hunt and the IMF team must track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity if it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than the mission -- not even the lives of those he cares about most.
Release date: July 12, 2023 (USA)
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Budget: 291 million USD
Producers: Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison
Production companies: Skydance Media, Tom Cruise
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Cinematography: Fraser Taggart
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One Review
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
A nefarious A.I. threatens societal collapse. Only Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) can stop it — but is his past catching up with him?
By Alex Godfrey | Posted On05 07 2023
Release Date:
14 Jul 2023

Original Title:
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

Okay, let’s just come out with it. It’s now clear: Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie are cinema’s greatest love affair. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor? Pah. Mere fumbling amateurs. These two are going steady for life. It’s a joy to behold.

Cruise was once a promiscuous Mission player, hiring a different director each time, but after working with McQuarrie on 2015’s outstanding Rogue Nation he settled down. Dead Reckoning Part One is further testament to just how much director and star are in tune, travelling the world together in search of bigger thrills, egging each other on with kamikaze nerve. You’ve probably already seen the footage of Cruise’s cliff-defying motorbike jump, McQuarrie gleefully looking on. These two will do anything for each other. And for our entertainment.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Following on from Fallout’s fallout, Cruise’s Ethan Hunt must now pick up the pieces, sizing up what this whole Mission malarkey means, and what it’s worth. With a properly sinister A.I. foe dismantling the world’s infrastructure, and with all sorts of pesky do-gooders and do-badders on Ethan’s tail, so begins a sprawling cat and mouse game, with some ingenious twists on the series’ tropes (an early airport sequence is an absolute box of delights, throwing mischievous digital face-mapping in with the old latex-mask shenanigans). And here, McQuarrie has made the most tactile Mission yet. The big chase in the little Fiat puts you so shudderingly close to the action, you feel like you’re being constantly smashed up. Have you ever had whiplash from watching a film before? Brace yourself.