![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The ship runs afoul of an AI known only as The Entity, an artificial intelligence that has become sentient and a dire danger to the entire world – as well as an opportunity for whoever controls it.Įnter Cruise’s Ethan Hunt, who has enough experience to recognize the inherent risks in trying to tame that technology, enlisted to find an old colleague, Ilsa (Rebecca Ferguson), who may hold the key (literally, in this case) to unlocking its secrets. After his save-the-movie-business heroics with “Top Gun: Maverick,” saving the world seems like a relatively simple task for Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.” Happily, he has some splendid help this time around, in that rare 2023 summer movie that has the scope and heft – with a timely AI threat – to support its “To be continued” framework.Īlthough this “Mission” reassembles plenty of familiar faces from the 27-year-old theatrical franchise’s history, there are new key supporting players in Hayley Atwell, already a proven espionage presence thanks to Marvel’s Agent Carter and Pom Klementieff, here cast as what amounts to a Bond villain far removed from her “Guardians of the Galaxy” persona, continuing to stock the “Mission” team with European talent in key roles.Īs for the aforementioned mission (“should you decide to accept it”), it’s introduced by way of an opening that feels plucked from “The Hunt for Red October,” involving a nuclear submarine with stealth capabilities. ![]()
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