![]() One of those halves is about to be sold on the black market, and so Ethan and his team-including returning characters Luther ( Ving Rhames) and Benji ( Simon Pegg)-have to not just intercept the key but discern its purpose. can be manipulated with a key split into two halves. ![]() in the world that superpowers are battling to control. Kittridge informs Hunt that there’s essentially a rogue A.I. “Dead Reckoning” returns former IMF director Eugene Kittridge ( Henry Czerny) to Ethan’s life with a new mission. And with its sweaty, canted close-ups, Fraser Taggart’s cinematography wants you to remember the first movie-how Ethan Hunt became an agent and the price he’s been paying from the beginning. “Dead Reckoning Part One” is about Ethan Hunt reconciling how he got to this point in his life, and McQuarrie and co-writer Erik Jendresen narratively recall De Palma’s film repeatedly. It’s not an origin story, but it does have the tenor of something like the excellent “Casino Royale” in how it unpacks the very purpose of a beloved character. While this series essentially rebooted in its fourth chapter, changing tone and style significantly, this seventh film very cleverly ties back to the 1996 Brian De Palma original more than any other, almost as if it's uniting the two halves of the franchise. Leave it to Ethan Hunt to accept the mission. Hollywood is currently questioning the very state of their industry. Some of the overcooked dialogue about the importance of this particular mission gets repetitive, but then McQuarrie and his team will reveal some stunningly conceived action sequence that makes all the spy-speak tolerable. Once again, director Christopher McQuarrie, Cruise, and their team have crafted a deceptively simple thriller, a film that bounces good, bad, and in-between characters off each other for 163 minutes (an admittedly audacious runtime for a film with “Part One” in the title that somehow doesn’t feel long). Can he be Hollywood's savior again? I hope so because “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” is a ridiculously good time. Last summer, Tom Cruise was given credit for saving the theatrical experience with the widely beloved “ Top Gun: Maverick.” One of our last true movie stars returns over a year later as the blockbuster experience seems to be fading with high-budget Hollywood endeavors like " The Flash" and " Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" falling short of expectations.
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