Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One

Theaters:  12 July 2023

Streaming:  10 October 2023

Runtime:  163 minutes

Genre:  Action — Adventure — Spy — Thriller

els:  9.5/10

IMDB:  7.9/10

Rotten Tomatoes Critics:  96/100

Rotten Tomatoes Audience:  94/100

Metacritic Metascore:  81/100

Metacritic User Score:  8.2/10

Awards: — Nominated Hollywood Critics Association Midseason Awards

Directed by: Christopher McQuarrie

Written by:  Christopher McQuarrie and Erik Jendresen

Music by:  Lorne Balfe

Cast: Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg

Film Locations:  England — Italy — Norway — UAE

Budget:  $291 million

Worldwide Box Office:  $567.5 million

AI is aware. Cruise is there. An artificial intelligence called the ‘Entity’ is learning and moving for ultimate control, but it is afraid. All the branches of the Entity’s probability tree lead to success except the ones sprouting Ethan Hunt.

This is the seventh ‘Mission: Impossible’ franchise movie with the eighth, Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part Two set for release in June of 2024.

I’m going to depart from my usual thoroughly researched and long-winded reviews and say with absolute conviction–watch this movie and leave it at that. It’s the best action movie since Blade Runner 2049 (Harrison Ford should have quit when he was ahead) in 2017. Every piece in this flick is solid; directing, acting, writing, camera, and music. There was one hole in the plot, but I will leave it to you to find. Also, early in the film there appeared to be a glitch in the CGI rendering involving Cruise’s chin, but I will have to watch it again to see if it was real or just my imagination.

One last thing. There is a major train scene in the movie using a steam locomotive which intrigued me due to their extreme scarcity in world today. So, I checked it out. The steam locomotive used in the movie was a specially built replica, three were built, of a Class 52 locomotive, a type of German steam engine that operated from 1942 to 1962. The replicas were constructed by The Steam Workshop in the UK, and then transported to Norway for filming. 

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