Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One: Action with enough bloody crunch to dispel creeping comic decadence

Not quite. Christopher McQuarrie, taking a third crack at the sequence, maintains impressive levels of mock sobriety throughout. This is a little too apparent in the overly anxious jawing about a McGuffin that must surely have tested the actors resistance to rolling of eyes. Do you really want to know? It seems there is a key, formed from two intersecting crosses, that may unlock a potentially self-aware computing “entity” with the capacity to take over the entire world.

Anyway, those outbursts of jawing allowed, McQuarrie puts enough bloody crunch into the action to dispel any suggestions of creeping comic decadence. Top-flight supporting performances help. Early on, Atwell turns up as Grace, a resourceful thief, apparently hired by someone-or-other to track down the key before Cruise’s Ethan Hunt gets his paws on it. The lunatics who stuff social media with complaints about women taking over franchise movies may blow a temporal artery at Dead Reckoning.

While good old Ving Rhames and good not-quite-so-old Simon Pegg remain in the van, distaff talent carries out the majority of the secondary ass-kicking. Rebecca Ferguson is back behind the sniper rifle as old chum Ilsa. Vanessa Kirby reprises her role as statuesque princess of malignity. Newcomer Pom Klementieff, best known from, strips layers from the screen as an all-purpose henchperson of the old school.

All four are excellent, but the gender shift does pose an interesting moral dilemma. Does Ethan Hunt have the same freedom to smash a woman villain in the face as he is allowed with a male antagonist? PhD theses have been structured around less. The character himself seems insure. Cruise, still knocking on 60 during the shoot, appears implausibly comfortable throughout a film that, at 2¾ hours, somehow manages to seem only about 15 minutes too long. Hollywood will, however, be concerned that the most satisfactory blockbusters of 2022 and 2023 hung around a man born during the Kennedy administration. There is, of course, a bit more to come. Be warned.

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