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It ultimately boils down to this: How many leaps of faith can you take? Tom Cruise? Especially after his last one — flying his bike off a cliff and free-falling, before pulling the parachute open to land on a moving train. And they say the 61-year-old movie star did the trick himself; They added that he took it seven times before he was satisfied.
Well, Cruz can never go wrong with not trying.
But, Mission Impossible VII can go wrong, for over-trying.
As if resorting to the frankly irritating and greedy tendency of splitting the movie into two halves isn’t enough, as if the 164-minute length of this sequel isn’t enough, Dead Reckoning fills the time with endless talk. Most of it involves talking about her supervillain, who goes by the name “The Entity”. Differently, the different characters take it upon themselves to describe it as a) an AI that has become “sentient”, b) an “agent” that has gone rogue, c) an “enemy that is everywhere and nowhere, that has no center”, d) that is “stronger”. a killing machine”, e) some kind of cosmic starburst looking at everyone, and) well, you get the drift.
Even without the AI ​​scares — this movie actually started before the pandemic, and so couldn’t have been more fortunate with its release timing — we know what we’re dealing with here, and we’ve known it since Stanley Kubrick gave us 2001.
Another target of Dead Reckoning’s ongoing obsession is Ethan Hunt (Cruise). Agent No. 1 of the Impossible Mission Force (IMF, for short) is also discussed by several characters at length here, mentioning the description of the Chaos Incarnation.
The task this time around is to stop the entity or control it – with very little separating the bad from the good, in this world of gigantic military-industrial complexes (this is indicated). No wonder which side Ethan chooses to join.
Before he gets there, he must first purchase a key, divided into two parts, which when put together can give the entity’s source code—thus giving the person who cracks it the power to control digital space, and by extension, the world.
Ailsa (Ferguson), the former British MI6 agent for whom Ethan has a thing, keeps half of the key. Grace (Atwell) may or may not be a stickler for the other, but even if she is, considering a thief, pickpocket, counterfeiter, etc., no one can be sure.
The man who keeps popping up painfully in Ethan’s path, not in a good way, is Gabriel (Morales), a ghost from the past who we hope will be further reincarnated. Here, he walks around snarling and talking in mysterious ways about his own deal with the entity. Kirby reprises her role as weapons agent White Widow, but gets very little screen time.
Ethan along with his loyal buddies, Benji (Paige) and Luther (Ramez), toil away at their computers and devices, all to make Ethan look good.
It may be Ethan, but Cruz probably less so. Age now shows on the actor’s face, even if he remains as wonderfully fit as ever, and wit when his heart is giving out, as he does. The grand finale of a train tumbling over a steep canyon, its carriages falling off one by one, as Ethan and Grace scramble to reach the back coaches, grab everything, and dodge crumbling furniture and kitchen supplies, is one of the most impressive action sequences in a long time. Her earlier car chase is through Venice, in a tiny Fiat, with Ethan and Grace chained together, and she finds cool tricks that can be packed too.
However, could acknowledging Cruise’s advancing years add some true love to all of the film’s admiration?
But then, that’s the case with Cruise. And this movie adds to his longstanding myth of what is possible – if you choose to accept it.
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Part 1, Film Director: Christopher Macquarie
Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1 cast: Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Esai Morales, Vanessa Kirby, Pom Klementieff
Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One movie rating: 2.5 stars
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