MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE DEAD RECKONING PART ONE
Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One is simply one exciting impossible mission after another with probably the longest car chase scene in the franchise and a train wreck scene that will bring you at the edge of your IMAX seat.
The 7th film in the saga brings back Luther (Ving Rhames), Benji (Simon Pegg) together on Ethan Hunt's (Tom Cruise) IMF team with Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) yet again as "the" complication.
In this movie, AI or artificial intelligence is both the "weapon" and the "bad guy" and as the film strongly implied - the enemy now is everyone and noone. Part One engages Ethan and his team on a race to find a key that is supposed to shut down "The Entity" but the whole world wants the key not to kill the AI but to control it, for whoever controls the entity controls "truth" and the concept of what's "real" or even what's "right" and "wrong" - for this IMF has to go rogue once again and fight everyone for the possession of the key. From private contractors like the "White Widow" (Vanessa Kirby), disciples of "The Entity" like Gabriel (Esai Morales) and Paris (Pom Klementieff), and even their own government like Agent Kittridge (Henry Czerny) and Denlinger (Cary Elwes).
The film also introduces the character of Grace (Hayley Atwell) who practically showed us the first skill requirement to become a member of the Impossible: Mission Force. You have to either be a good magician or an excellent thief!
Stunts and chase scenes were all amazing. Unnecessarily long, but amazingly choreographed.
To put it in perspective, Dead Reckoning Part One is like "Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Part 1" or "Avengers Infinity War" - which audiences felt like something's amiss in the film, that you patiently wait for the conclusion and hope that it's going to be epic. Which in the case of Harry Potter and The Avengers, have become true! So we're going to patiently wait for Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part Two with the hope that's it going to be an epic one. And because of this "Fallout" is still the "best" Mission: Impossible film for me - can't wait for Dead Reckoning Part Two to knock it down to 2nd place.
I'll end with my favorite quote in the film:
"The world is changing. Truth is vanishing." - Ilsa Faust (Missing her already)
4/5 🏍️
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