Mission Impossible- Dead reckoning Part 1

​"Mission Impossible- Dead reckoning Part 1".

Watched English movie "Mission Impossible- Dead reckoning Part 1". 

This movie is directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Written by Christopher McQuarrie and Erik Genderson. Produced by Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie. It stars Tom Cruise, Heyley Atwell, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Pom Klementieff, Esai Morales, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Cary Elwes, Stuart Whelan. Cinematography by Frazer Taggart. Music by  Lorne Balfe. Film runs for 2 hour and 43 minutes and was released on 9 July 2023. I watched  first day first show with Aditi, Sameer, Prakash, Vijay, Jyoti, Pratyush, Jayant and Sucheeta.

An artificial intelligence has achieved consciousness. It’s gone rogue. There is a physical key divided in two pieces that can give control over this intelligence. Everyone is after it. IMF team gets the assignment to obtain the key. Ethan, Elsa, Benji and Luther embark on the mission impossible and the action begins. 

Well it’s an action film so there is action. But it just jumps from one action scenes to another till the end of the movie. Mind you, all the action scenes are very well executed and appear realistic. But story becomes the casualty. The story is really basic. Then the director and action takes the movie through. Action is top class. They built a train for this movie and then actually crashed it from a bridge into valley to get the shot. No special effects were used. Ernest perfection or craziness? This scene of train falling has uncanny similarities with a similar shot from Bollywood film Pathan.

Cinematography is superb. Cinematographer has a lot of scope with beautiful locations, difficult angles and action packed scenes. 

Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt in this 7th movie of MI franchise. He does action scenes well and acts decently. It’s amazing that he does all his actions and doesn’t use a body double. It’s a well known fact that the scene where he jumps off the cliff on motorcycle to deploy parachute was finalized after 50 takes. That’s loss of 50 motorcycles. Ving and Simon play their usual characters. I still can’t see Ving (A heavy, robust guy) as computer genius. Is it because we are used to scrawny, bespectacled kid as computer genius. This movie also marks exit of Rebecca (former MI6 agent) and introduction of Heyley in the team. Heyley looks promising. 

It’s counterintuitive that there is a physical key to an artificially intelligence and everyone is after that piece of metal to rule the cyber space. 

Well, as the title suggests, this was Part 1. The battle is over but war is still to be won. We will have to wait for at least an year for the release of Part 2.

Positives: Action.

Negatives: Story.

Watch if you like Tom Cruise movies or action movies or both. If not, give it a miss.