‘MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING – PART 1’ debuts with 100% on Rotten Tomatoes from 54 reviews

‘MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING – PART 1’ debuts with 100% on Rotten Tomatoes from 54 reviews.

The beginning of the end of the Mission: Impossible movie franchise appears to be another banger, according to the first reviews of the sequel. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One again stars Tom Cruise as IMF agent Ethan Hunt, and the actor continues to put his life on the line in order to deliver the best cinematic experience possible. Does this first part of the franchise finale live up to the hype and provide another classic of the action movie genre?

DOES IT UP THE STAKES FOR THE FRANCHISE?

“As the beginning of the series’ end game, Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One features genuine stakes.” – Nick Schager, The Daily Beast

“Dead Reckoning sometimes strains to live up to the high standards of earlier installments – especially in presenting this latest global threat as even more terrifying than all the ones that came before.” – Tim Grierson, Screen International

The 2023 summer movie season has been extremely rough. From The Flash to Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, we’ve been getting disappointing blockbusters and box office bombs left and right. Well, just like last year with Top Gun: Maverick, the industry is once again relying on Tom Cruise to save it with a cinematic experience that demands to be seen on the biggest screen you can find. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is just that, and although it might not be the strongest in the franchise, it absolutely boasts the type of movie magic and spectacle that most (if not all) blockbusters have been missing this year. With more gadgets, more death-defying practical stunts, and a lot more money shots of Tom Cruise sprinting at full speed, the seventh Mission: Impossible film is easily the most absurd yet, and it’s all the better because of it.  Writer-director Christopher McQuarrie returns for the third time in the franchise, this time with the help of co-writer Erik Jendresen (Band of Brothers), to create a two-part sequel event. Even if Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse just proved to be a highly successful “first half” at the box office, this trend of two-parters is, admittedly, starting to wear thin, and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is no exception. Ethan Hunt’s latest mission is his most complicated by far, and with the runtime clocking in at 2 hours and 43 minutes, this can be both a pro and a con. This isn’t to say that the movie is overtly confusing, but it sure is pretty dense for essentially being the first half of a story.