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Cruise starrer Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One has released in theatres worldwide. The film is the seventh part of the hit franchise, known for its action scenes and cool stunts, often pulled off by lead star Tom himself.
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In the seventh Mission: Impossible film, directed by Christopher McQuarrie from a screenplay co-written by him with Erik Jendresen, Tom Cruise’s irrepressible and insuperable Ethan Hunt finds himself up against a mysterious and invisible power with the potential to wreak havoc on mankind.
- Tom Cruise and gang are ready to present their new action-adventure to the world
- Both Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg get their due, but Rebecca Ferguson is forced cede ground to Hayley Atwell, who portrays a peripatetic pickpocket.
It is this force – it has acquired a dangerous degree of sentience and gone rogue – that holds the key (a glittering, physical one at that) to what lies in store for mankind. On its part, its true nature and potency can only be unlocked with a key split into two halves, and not with the aid of some super-secret formula hidden in the virtual world.
The rest of the world, led by CIA director Eugene Kitteridge, intends to wrest control of the evil force known as “the Entity”. The goal is weaponisation of AI and global domination.
Ethan and his Impossible Missions Force (IMF) team – Luther Stickell Benji Dunn and his love interest Ilsa Faust – are, on the other hand, determined to eliminate ‘the Entity” for good. They are willing to go to the end of the world to achieve their goal.
They stop at nothing, but when the film winds up, they are well shy of their destination but the operation hangs tantalisingly between a past that nobody can escape and a future that promises an exciting finale.
Welcome to the world of lies, says somebody who appears to know too much. This character and a few others underline the fact that total control over the “The Entity” will enable universal manipulation of the truth. Ethan Hunt’s battle this time around is, therefore, aimed at taming a fount of lies that can play vicious tricks with human minds.
Ethan’s mission is obviously not destined to be accomplished in this film – a second instalment is scheduled for release in a year from now. In fact, we are told more than once that “the key is only the beginning”. Is Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One likely to have the audience asking for more? The answer is a resounding YES.
The movie packs enough twists and turns into its 163 minutes to keep the audience glued to the screen.
Cast
Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Pom Klementieff, Vanessa Kirby and Henry Czerny
Director
Christopher McQuarrie
