Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (REVIEW) | Projector | Tom Cruise is accept-ional

Tom Cruise is taking himself to new heights in his seventh outing as Ethan Hunt - like off a cliff! Does Film Brain think you should accept this mission, and live up to the series' standards?
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[wjzav]

There were a lot of callbacks to the earlier movies.
"I know you must be very angry" a line that Kidricht said to Ethan in both MI1 and this one.
The climax happening on a speeding train with Ethan fighting the bad guy on top of it and in the train are Kidricht and an international arms dealer.
Ethan having to leave the woman behind because his parachute can only carry one person also happened in MI2.
The mask machine malfunctions right before a critical mission was also in Ghost Protocol.

[mythdusterds]

The highlights of the film are defiantly the airport, interactions with the Italian police, the car chase, and train sequence

[r.a.r.]

Random question for you, Mathew: do you plan on doing a part two of your movie poster collection? I recently rewatched that video when I was home sick, and I would love to see part two. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Great review, btw. Don't want to overlook that. I think your work has gotten better and better within the last couple of years.

[KonElKent]

Oh God, I remember those tapes with trailers... And I still have no idea where they came from; like one didn't go down to the video store and say "Do you have just the trailers?" It made sense that stores would have them to play for customers to see, but the public?!

[theaaroncarruthers]

Christopher McQuarrie directed The Way Of The Gun in 2000 and an underrated movie with some great action sequences.

[davyhotch]

I can never take the Acronym IMF seriously. I keep expecting Ethan to talk about Christine Legarde and structural adjustment programs.

[alfje]

Still weird that Ethan Hunt decides to take on Linkara's best adversary.

[mythdusterds]

I agree that the film is not very tangible. I also feel like this film does not provide many new gadgets to the film that have not been seen before in the previous films. We have seen mask making gadgets, voice changers, phones, cars. I wish there was more to see that was stuff you missed in first go and see in further watches. This does not hold up as well as Mission Impossible 3-6

[jamesatkinsonja]

Fallout was going to be a hard act to follow and while I don't think this was as good as it or 'Rouge Nation' it was still a great ride. There are story choices [as you hinted in the video] I don't agree with and some of the new characters will be hard to judge until Part 2 comes out [probably not until 2025] but the action sequences were amazing and Cruise was on top form.

[spicymemes]

A lot of people are saying the ending train sequence is reminiscent of Uncharted 2 and I am having a hard time seeing it otherwise, especially considering the fact that we had an Uncharted movie and was nowhere near as exciting as what we got here. Even Tom Cruise looks more like Nathan Drake than Tom Holland.

[AMoniqueOcampo]

Am I the only one who thinks that Tom Cruise is REALLY getting too old for this?

[mythdusterds]

Personally Rogue Nation followed by Ghost Protocol is my favorite. Mission Impossible 3 has the best villain.

[EvaTruve]

I really trust him. Unique honesty, he should go to politics! I mean Film Brain, not Cruise.

[fireflyf]

I seem to be one of the few who actually hated this movie. My reasons:

1. (Prologue) Oh no, that's the story? Well, it won't be so bad so long as the characters don't (act 1) make the stupidest decisions possible within that premise 🤦.

2. The pairs of Atwell/Ferguson & Kirby/Klementieff are redundant. The actresses are fine, but as you get at they're superfluous/redundant characters. Only a single character was needed for each pair, so the result was more characters to be a romantic interest for Cruise, characters essentially there to be fridged, and of course...

3. The interminable padding. Every scene went on way too long, including the

4. Action scenes were unoriginal and uninspired, even just this year. I don't mean this to diminish stunt performers, but I've already seen these. Car chases? Better in John Wick. Train? Indy, even if that wasn't as in camera. Train car escape? The Lost World.

There's a reason they're in that order, though, because I just do not buy this premise, and that just kills a movie for me.

[samwill]

The idea of breaking this movie into parts seems...wrong headed.
The point of Mission Impossible is that they're fun, thrilling action movies that don't have as much context or weight to them as modern superhero or franchise movies.
Giving it two parts seems to make it something it's not and not what people want it to be

[stevenharsono]

Although Tom's action scenes is great, seeing Rebecca Ferguson's character end up being killed and becoming a corpse on the Venice bridge is hurt and heartbreaking