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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is a 2023 American spy action film directed by Christopher McQuarrie from a screenplay he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen. It is the sequel to Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) and the seventh installment in the Mission: Impossible film series.
Jul 13, 2023 · As Ethan Hunt and his team trot the globe battling Gabriel (Esai Morales) and the mysterious evil A.I. known as the Entity, the movie sneaks in a surprising amount of small details and quiet...
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(formerly known as Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One) is the seventh instalment in the Mission: Impossible franchise. The film is directed by Christopher McQuarrie and was planned to be released on July 23, 2021, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was pushed back to November 19, 2021 then was pushed back again to September 30, 2022 then was pushed back once again in January 2022 to July 14, 2023. In Part One, Ethan and the team seek to destroy the Entity, a powerful AI, in order to keep its dangerous power away from corrupt governments. In several countries, the film's release date was moved forward two days to July 12, 2023.
The film was released digitally on October 10, 2023 and is set to release on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD on October 31, 2023.
in January 18, 2024, it has been announced that Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One has been renamed to Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning.
The Russian submarine Sevastopol is preparing to return to Russia when an American submarine is detected by sonar nearby. The captain attempts to slip pass the sub, but the enemy vessel suddenly fires a torpedo and he is forced to fire one in return. Seconds before impact, both the American sub and torpedo suddenly disappear. The Russian torpedo changes course; the crew is unable to power it down and the Sevastopol takes a direct hit, sinking it and killing everyone onboard.
Ethan Hunt receives a new briefing from an IMF courier: he is instructed to track down Ilsa Faust, who has stolen one of two keys required to access a rogue AI, which has been dubbed "the Entity" and has the potential to access any digital system. Ilsa is now a fugitive with a large bounty on her head. Ethan tracks her down to a remote location in the Arabian Desert. Using the cover provided by a sandstorm, he and Ilsa eliminate the bounty hunters on her trail but Ilsa is shot and seemingly killed.
High-ranking officials of the U.S. Intelligence Community meet with DNI Denlinger and former IMF official turned CIA Director Eugene Kittridge, to discuss the threat posed by the Entity. Kittridge states that whoever can gain control of the Entity will be able to attain global hegemony and as such, every nation with the capable to search for the two missing keys will do so. However, he also notes that the Entity has gained a measure of sentience and could use its capabilities to threaten vital infrastructure, financial institutions, and other pillars of civilization, and that humans would be powerless to respond.
Kittridge's adjutant enters the room and deploys knockout gas; Kittridge is given a gas mask and remains awake, while the adjutant removes his Latex Mask to reveal Ethan. It is revealed that Ilsa is very much alive, as Ethan had faked her death and taken her key. He and Kittridge cannot agree on what to do with it - Kittridge wants to bring the Entity under IMF control while Ethan believes it is too dangerous to exist and seeks to kill it. Eventually, he simply tells his boss that he is going rogue, and that the IMF would be wise to stay out of his way. Kittridge alerts security to Ethan's presence, but gets shot with a tranquilizer dart.
Ethan, wearing another mask to impersonate the director, escapes and meets with Luther Stickell and Benji Dunn in the international airport at Abu Dhabi, where they have identified the man planning to sell the other key. Ethan tries to follow the man, but the key is suddenly stolen by a woman named Grace, whom Luther discovers to be a prolific thief and con artist. With a team of CIA agents led by Jasper Briggs in pursuit, Ethan convinces Grace to cooperate with him. However, she betrays his trust and boards a plane to Rome with the key, while Ethan only barely manages to evade Briggs and his team.
Benji is lured away into the airport's baggage area by a suspicious package, which turns out to contain a nuclear bomb. He disarms it, but learns that the device is fake and was planted as a means for the Entity to analyze him and Ethan, whom it views as a threat. Ethan orders the team to go their separate ways while he tips off the police in Rome to Grace's criminal history. Another man, Gabriel, is also shown to be following Grace, sending a French-speaking assassin, Paris, to capture her. Grace once again outsmarts Ethan and he reunites with Benji, Luther, and Ilsa, who has decided to risk her newfound freedom to help him.
•Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt
•Hayley Atwell as Grace
•Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell
•Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn
•Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust
•Vanessa Kirby as Alanna Mitsopolis/White Widow
This film were to be shot back-to-back with Mission: Impossible 8 (previously known as Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part Two), much like Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. In September 2019, director Christopher McQuarrie confirmed on social media that Hayley Atwell will join the cast.
The films are no longer being shot back to back.
Production was stalled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and ended in September 2021.
Mission Impossible is a film that has always covered a wide geography of shooting. The new part is no exception and it was filmed in the Arabian Desert, Abu Dhabi Airport, the streets of Venice, near the most famous sights of Rome, on the picturesque railway lines of Norway and the lakes of England.
Box Office
As of September 24, 2023, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One has grossed $172.1 million in the United States and Canada, and $395.4 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $567.5 million. Variety reported that given the film's massive budget, it would "likely not turn a profit" in its theatrical run, later estimating that it would lose the studio around $100 million if it did not cross $600 million worldwide. In September 2023, it was revealed through U.K. tax filings that Paramount had received a total of £57 million ($71 million) in COVID-19 insurance payouts related to the movie. In the United States and Canada, Dead Reckoning Part One was initially projected to gross around $90 million from 4,327 theaters over its first five days, as well as another $160 million from 70 international territories, for a five-day worldwide debut of around $250 million. The film made $15.5 million on its first day (including $7 million from Tuesday night preview screenings), and $8.3 million on its second. After making $16.7 million on Friday, weekend and five-day estimates were lowered to $54 million and $78 million, respectively. The film went on to debut to $54.7 million in its opening weekend and a total of $78.5 million over its first five days, just behind the second film's $78.8 million in 2000. While the film fell short of expectations after it "turned out a much lower opening weekend than expected", Deadline Hollywood noted that unlike Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), another near-three hour film that cost around $300 million and opened to $84 million over its first five days, Dead Reckoning Part One benefitted from better critic and audience scores. Despite that, the film dropped 65% to $19.4 million in its second weekend, finishing fourth behind newcomers Barbie and Oppenheimer and holdover Sound of Freedom. Some outlets noted that the film's unexpected box office drop could be attributed to ceding IMAX screens to Oppenheimer, as well as business going to the Barbenheimer doubleheader phenomenon despite Sound of Freedom also outperforming it domestically. It made $10.6 million in its third weekend and $6.7 million in its fourth, finishing in fifth and seventh place, respectively.
Critics
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 96% of 407 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8/10. The website's consensus reads: "With world-threatening stakes and epic set pieces to match that massive title, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One proves this is still a franchise you should choose to accept.". The site's Audience Score sits comfortably at 94% with over 5,000 verified ratings. The new Audience Says feature, implemented on February 2021, reads: "With a terrific cast and some beautifully shot stunts, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One might be the best action movie of the year.". Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 81 out of 100, based on 66 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale (tied with Fallout for the highest grade of the series), while PostTrak reported 90% of filmgoers gave it a positive score. In a positive review for The Guardian, Mark Kermode gave the film four out of five stars, applauding Cruise for his acting in the film, while also praising the film for its "join-the-dots plot" and "thrilling" action. Similarly, Todd McCarthy for Deadline Hollywood and Siddhant Adlakha for IGN found that the film represents "Hollywood action filmmaking at its peak" and that "if every tentpole franchise entry were this fun and finely tuned, the theatrical-versus-streaming debate would be immediately put to rest". Brian Truitt for USA Today lauded the action sequences, saying "it's the first half of a man vs. machine epic that doesn't skimp in the thrills department. Just don't think too hard about it, though you'll probably still give serious side-eye to your laptop." In a mixed review for The Curb, Nadine Whitney criticized the film's "slow and sloppy pacing". Popmatters concurred, describing the film as an "overcooked, under-rehearsed vehicle". In a mixed review for Little White Lies, Adam Woodward said: "Tom Cruise and co gear up for another high-stakes mission, but it’s diminishing returns amid all the ambitious action".
In Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that...
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One: Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. With Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg. Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands.
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Jul 5, 2023 · Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 is released in UK cinemas on Friday 14th July 2023. Check out more of our Film coverage or visit our TV Guide to see what's on tonight.
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One is the seventh installment in the Mission: Impossible feature film series. Dead Reckoning Part One finds IMF Agent Ethan Hunt ( Tom Cruise) having to team up with a mysterious thief to prevent an unstoppable intelligence known as "The Entity" from controlling all of humanity.
