Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning (Part One) (2023)

Tom Cruise must be feeling his age, surely. And yet his stunts are getting more extreme and the single track running scenes seem to go on and on. Is he ever going to slow down? Maybe Part Two will tell.

And the actress who played the pickpocket thief, Grace, looked very familiar, and then it dawned on me: Agent Carter! As soon as I realized that, she became more precious to me. Looks like she’s joining the IMF team, permanently. Well, as permanently as all of Ethan Hunt’s other females were.

Hunt is up against a computer that could be called AI gone rogue: the Entity (as they’ve called IT) is trying to prevent anyone from using the keys which will revert its source code back to the beginning. His mission, if he chooses to accept it, will be to destroy the machine but the machine already knows what could happen, so is determined to stop Hunt before he is able to complete the mission. Haven’t we seen this scenario before? Hmm.