Cruise outdoes even his own daredevil achievements in the latest entry in the franchise.
WhileDead Reckoningis not a better film in totality, its action and thrills are next level.
One might wonder how many ways can you reimagine a car chase?
Tom Cruise in ‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Part One’.Christian Black/Paramount Pictures
But theMission: Impossiblefranchise seems to have no shortage of inventiveness in that department.
In the climax, Ethan pursues a train, attempting to climb aboard while it’s in motion.
To say it’s anything short of miraculous would be a lie.
Hayley Atwell and Tom Cruise in ‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Part One’.Paramount Pictures
It’s quite literally jaw-dropping.
He’s somehow both oily and noble, his loyalties and values brilliantly opaque.
Both Shea Whigham and Pom Klementieff are superb additions.
Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames and Rebecca Ferguson in ‘Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning - Part One’.Christian Black/Paramount Pictures
Klementieff features as assassin Paris, who largely exists with wordless menace and snarling bravado.
Grace, as she quickly learns, is in way over her head with the IMF.
But isn’t that the name of the game?
Greg Davis and Shea Whigham in ‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Part One’.Christian Black/Paramount Pictures
They’re not theImpossibleMission Force for nothing.
Hayley Atwell and Tom Cruise in ‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Part One’.Paramount Pictures
