The first reviews for the next Mission: Impossible movie, Dead Reckoning Part One, are here, and they are mostly positive just as the last few outings, Fallout and Rogue Nation.
Dead Reckoning is the first half of the franchise's first two-part narrative. It's the seventh film in the series, based on the popular spy show of the 1960s. Ethan Hunt and his IMF (Impossible Missions Force) team have to track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens humanity before it falls into the wrong hands...again. Now facing a mysterious enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than the mission.
Mission: Impossible--Dead Reckoning Part One is directed by Christopher McQuarrie, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Erik Jendresen. The film stars Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Esai Morales, Vanessa Kirby, Pom Klementieff, and Henry Czerny.
Dead Reckoning hasn't premiered worldwide yet, so as of this writing, it is standing at 82, based on 37 reviews. Below, you'll see a selection of the many reviews of Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One that have already been published.
«Disguises, time bombs, runaway trains: Cruise, his director Christopher McQuarrie, and their collaborators are very consciously working in a century-old tradition here, perhaps to show the business and art of stunning audiences can – if we choose – be much the same now as it ever was.» — Robbie Collin [Full review]
«The fact that McQuarrie and Cruise routinely set and then raise the bar for the gold standard of action movies is the lure of the franchise — but it's the characters, their foibles, their wit, and their deep humanity that are Mission: Impossible's secret weapon.» — Maureen Lee Lenker
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