Movie Review: Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

Tom Cruise is back with another banger, the seventh actioner from one of the most celebrated spy franchises of all time, Mission Impossible.

The movie has gargantuan hype around it; let’s check out whether it lived up to it or not.

Story :

Agent Ethan(Tom Cruise) gets assigned his career’s most daunting mission, which deals with the retrieval of a Key that controls the most dangerous AI robot that is designed to destroy the world. To find out whether Ethan succeeded in his mission or not, you need to watch this on the big screen.

Artist Performances :

Tom Cruise as Ethan was as charming as ever and performed his role with utmost earnestness.
Hayley Atwell as Grace was enchanting, her character design is quite impressive and accentuates the fun whenever needed.

Esai Morales as ‘Gabriel’ gives another terrific performance in the skin of a frightening villain, and the most interesting character of the movie is ‘Paris’, a brutal assassin one can never think of, fascinatingly portrayed by Pom Klementieff. The rest of the cast gave adequate performances in their roles.

Writing and Direction :

Christopher McQuarrie brought a whole new enthralling energy to the MI franchise with ‘Rogue Nation’, which just catapulted to unimaginable highs with ‘Fallout’ and with ‘Dead Reckoning Part 1’, he just continued to propel it by exceeding all expectations, this is another solid actioner from him.

Writing by the duo Erick Jendreson and Christopher McQuarrie is taut, the way Ethan has been brought back to the franchise, followed by a stunning scene that sort of introduces his infamous multifaceted nature, and then the action getting geared up for the rest of the movie, they were all written with exciting drama consisting of sincerely felt tension besides naturally flowing comic angle and some powerful exchanges between main characters that quite fascinatingly elevate the heroic persona of Ethan.

Direction by Christopher McQuarrie is remarkable, and his command of technicalities continues to get better, the breathtaking car chase in the first hour or the nerve-wracking train episode in the climax, etc, the action episodes are bound to make the audience jump out of their seats with the loudest cheers to bring down the theatres’ rooftops.

Technical Departments :

Cinematography by Fraser Taggart is monumental, every intimidating action episode was gorgeously shot with an unflinching vision that is complemented by some pulsating score by Lorne Balfe and excellent editing by Eddie Hamilton that exalts the tension of the script and keeps it alive like anything till the very end, giving the audience a feel of witnessing something magnificent on screen that is high-end spectacle meeting high on thriller.

Positives :

Action Episodes
Natural inclusion of humor

Negatives :

Opening hook scene felt a bit underwhelming
Second half loses steam in some portions compared to the first half

Final Word :

‘Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ is another highly entertaining actioner from the MI franchise that makes the audience all thrilled about what could be in the store for the next part while leaving the theatre in awe.