It’s a variation on the man-versus-machine theme that Cruise and McQuarrie pursued in last year’s Top Gun: Maverick and a rather compelling metaphor for their well-publicized dedication to old-school action film–making and real-life stunt work. This time, Cruise’s Ethan Hunt isn’t fighting nihilistic terrorists or vaporous international-espionage networks but an all-powerful artificial intelligence known as “the Entity” that has instant access to any and all online networks and can effectively dupe the world’s tech-reliant militaries into fighting one another. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, as suggested by that ominous “part one,” seems to care a bit more about its plot, and it’s not hard to see why. This is the movie in which Tom Cruise hangs off a helicopter. Don’t worry about why anything is happening, writer-director Christopher McQuarrie seemed to be telling us. Its opening scenes breezed through a cavalcade of names and organizations and motivations that practically dared you to understand what was going on. One of the most enchanting aspects of 2018’s Mission: Impossible - Fallout, the last Mission: Impossible film, was the cavalier attitude with which it treated plot exposition. Photo: Christian Black/Paramount/Christian Black Tom Cruise does what he does in Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One.
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