Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
- -Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the world's fate at stake and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan must consider that nothing can matter more than his mission—not even the lives of those he cares about most.
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Ethan Hunt, Star Trek’s Ethan Hunt, is returning to prove that every penny you spend on “big screen” cinema viewing is worthwhile.
One of the most engrossing shows to witness on the big screen is the motorbike-cliff sequence, which lives up to the enormous hype.
What’s Good: Almost everything about the movie works to keep audiences interested, whether it be through action, twists, or nostalgic recollections of the franchise.
What’s Bad: Eddie Hamilton’s editing is lighthearted despite the film’s 2 hours and 43 minutes length, but if I had to select faults, I would remove the brief romance montage between the two stars in Venice.
Tom Cruise’s character Ethan Hunt, may God bless his parents for letting him maintain “Hunt” as his second name, is driven by his unwavering pursuit of the final villain on Earth—this time, AI. Yes, the film “The Entity” is the latest iteration of the iconic film that has influenced billionaires such as Elon Musk and Zuck.
What is Hunt searching for, two sides of a key that will unlock? Gabriel (Esai Morales) is only known by one person, and you guessed it—he’s also searching for Mr. Ethan. Hunt encounters old friends Luther (Ving Rhames), Benji (Simon Pegg), and Ilsa (Rebecca Ferguson) along the way. He also encounters Grace (Hayley Atwell), who is an unclear antagonist, as he attempts to piece together the Keys’ significance and the idea that “Whoever controls AI controls truth.”
Plot
A next-generation Russian stealth submarine Sevastopol employs an advanced AI, activated by a two-piece cruciform key. The AI deceives the crew into attacking a phantom target only to be struck by their own torpedo, killing all aboard. IMF agent Ethan Hunt travels to the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Desert and successfully retrieves a key piece from disavowed MI6 agent Ilsa Faust. He also fakes her death to ensure she survives a bounty placed by an unknown source. Back in Washington, D.C., he infiltrates a U.S. Intelligence Community briefing for Director of National Intelligence Denlinger discussing the AI, known as the “Entity”. CIA director Eugene Kittridge states the Entity achieved sentience and can manipulate cyberspace, allowing it to control global defense intelligence and financial networks. World powers compete to obtain the cruciform key to control the Entity, though the exact means of controlling it are unknown.International powers vie for possession of the cruciform key, which is necessary to govern the Entity, but it is unclear how this will be accomplished.
When Ethan comes clean, he tells Kittridge that he put Ilsa’s bounty on him an
d that he plans to destroy the Entity even though he knows they are acting like renegade actors and are taking part in a worldwide race. Evading US authorities, Ethan, along with his IMF companions Luther Stickell and Benji Dunn, proceed to Abu Dhabi International Airport in order to intercept the holder of the other crucial piece. A professional burglar by the name of Grace takes the crucial component during the chase. Luther and Benji deactivate a phony nuclear weapon at the same time.After meeting Gabriel, a cunning Entity liaison with connections to Ethan’s pre-IMF history, he begins to suspect foul play. The squad disperses once the operation is abandoned, and Grace flees to Rome. When she first arrives, she is captured, but Ethan saves her from the local government, US agents, and Paris, an Entity agent. Grace flees once more, and Ethan meets up with Luther, Benji, and Ilsa, who returns to them. Ethan and Ilsa track Grace to Venice, where they infiltrate an event hosted by arms dealer Alanna Mitsopolis, with assistance from Benji and Luther.
Each group reveals its contribution in getting the whole key while the party poses as a brokerage that the Entity set up. Alanna hired Grace to steal the remaining half of the key in order to create the finished product, which will be sold to her buyer on the Orient Express the following day. Gabriel declares through the Entity that he will have the finished key the following day and that either Ilsa or Grace will pass away. After making a fruitless attempt to talk Alanna out of the deal, Gabriel and Grace manage to get away.As Ethan follows Grace, the Entity eavesdrops on them and assumes Benji’s identity. This puts Ethan in combat with Paris, whom he manages to save. Gabriel murders Ilsa and renders Grace unconscious at the same time, ruining both Grace and Ethan, who swears revenge. Grace consents to pose as Alanna in order to steal the key during the transaction. Luther tells Ethan to spare Gabriel in order to gather knowledge on the Entity and departs for an off-grid area to avoid Entity meddling. Gabriel smashes the brake and throttle on the train and murders the engine crew. Gabriel meets Denlinger with Paris, who tries to build a relationship with the Entity by sharing details that only he is aware of.
After being used on the Sevastopol, the Entity—an powerful cyberweapon created b
y the US—went awry. When the key is finished, it opens a compartment inside the ship that holds the Entity’s source code, which may then be used to control or destroy it. After Ethan spared her life, Gabriel decided that Paris would betray them, so he murders Denlinger and tries to kill her as well. Grace presents the key to Kittridge while posing as Alanna. After revealing herself as the buyer, Grace negotiates a $100 million transaction and gains protection for herself. However, after canceling the transfer, Grace pickpockets the key from Kittridge. To save Grace, Ethan jumps into the train, but Gabriel finds the key.While fighting on top of the train, Gabriel manages to get away and blows up a bridge in front of Ethan. To save the passengers, Grace and Ethan separate the locomotive from the remainder of the train. Before passing out, Paris saves them both from falling and tells Ethan how the key connects to the Sevastopol. Grace tells Kittridge that she wants to become a member of the IMF. After stealing the completed key from Gabriel during the battle, Ethan uses a paraglider to escape the debris and meets up with Benji to carry out the remaining tasks, which include locating the Sevastopol and eliminating the Entity.
EXAMINE THE SCREENPLAY
Christopher McQuarrie enlists the great writer Erik Jendresen from Band of Brothers, who masterfully combines McQuarrie’s “A” (jaw-dropping Action) with its “smart as a tack” “I” (Intelligence) to create an AI that genuinely functions for the movie. Promoted to Cinematographer, Fraser Taggart, who has primarily worked in the Second Unit of the camera team for some amazing action movies like John Wick: Chapter 2, Kingsman: The Secret Service, and Doctor Strange, unleashes “God Level” camerawork to continuously support the batshit crazy action set-pieces.
The Call of Duty-inspired scenes and the addition of a tiny Yellow Fiat 500 for Cruise and Atwell to rival the villains’ enormous, tank-like MUVs make for an extremely thrilling chase scene in which you can actually feel every bump of the vehicle. If you’re astute enough, you already know that you should see this at an IMAX theater since that’s where the full potential of the movie can be realized. India is still lagging behind in receiving the true IMAX experience, even though characters in the film mention it twice, demonstrating the strength of our nation (Crying in the corner with Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer).
Compared to the previous MI installments, McQuarrie plays this up more cleverly. Whether it’s Simon Pegg’s character Benji who puts his car on self-drive while wearing a seatbelt or the idea of parking a yellow Fiat 500 in front of a massive MUV that resembles a tank, the movie is hilarious. Bollywood fans will undoubtedly be reminded of a similar attempt made by Shah Rukh Khan’s Pathaan by the movie’s climactic train sequence. Naturally, this is a step above because of the writing’s meticulousness combined with a shoddy implementation. It falls short due to sporadic computer-generated imagery, which breaks the immersion of experiencing the action in the movie. Indeed, the motorcycle-cliff scene lives up to the hype, and it’s among the most engrossing scenes.