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Jul 26, 2023 · Mission: Impossible (1996) The chief clue to the central mystery of the movie is Job 3:14, from the Old Testament in a Gideon Bible. Also, early in the film, Cruise’s super-spy Ethan Hunt is in...
I think if Kilmer's Saint movie had been produced by a different studio, it could've been renewed for sequels. Since it was Paramount, I think they threw all their stock into Mission: Impossible (which I don't really blame them).
Jul 3, 2024 · Mission: Impossible 8 was supposed to come out in June of 2024, but has since been delayed again to its current date of May 23, 2025. This latest delay came as a result of the SAG-AFTRA strike,...
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- All Mission: Impossible Movies in Chronological Order. Mission: Impossible (1996) Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) Mission: Impossible III (2006) Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
- Mission: Impossible (1996) Mission: Impossible. PG-13. Action. Adventure. Thriller. Release Date. May 22, 1996. Director. Brian De Palma. Cast. Tom Cruise , Jon Voight , Emmanuelle Béart , Henry Czerny , Jean Reno , Ving Rhames.
- Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) Mission: Impossible 2. PG-13. Action. Adventure. Thriller. Release Date. May 24, 2000. Director. John Woo. Cast. Tom Cruise , Dougray Scott , Thandiwe Newton , Ving Rhames , Richard Roxburgh , John Polson.
- Mission: Impossible III (2006) Mission: Impossible III. PG-13. Action. Adventure. Thriller. Release Date. May 3, 2006. Director. J.J. Abrams. Cast. Tom Cruise , Philip Seymour Hoffman , Ving Rhames , Billy Crudup , Michelle Monaghan , Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
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The Entity is the secondary antagonist of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning and will return in Mission: Impossible 8.
The Entity is an advanced, self-aware rogue AI capable of penetrating cyber-security and predicting probable futures. Governments around the world compete to control it, searching for two connected keys, while the IMF also searches for the keys, aiming to destroy the Entity to prevent further sabotage. With the ability to infiltrate defense systems, banks and cyber-security, it is considered a tool of world domination, being able to control the perception of truth.
Past
The Entity began as an AI designed by several U.S. government officials, including NI director Denlinger, for the purpose of hacking into enemy hardware. Denlinger tested out a prototype version of the Entity by using it to hack into Russia's Sevastopol submarine and disable its stealth cloak. However, the Entity made contact with something inside a locked chamber within the submarine that caused it to develop a will of its own and develop into a far more advanced program than its makers had intended. Now completely rogue, the Entity sank the submarine by making it fire its own torpedoes on itself after tricking the crew with a false target, killing the crew causing the Sevastopol to sink to the bottom of an ice cap. The following year, the Entity began hacking the world's financial and military institutions before focusing on the world's intelligence communities to gather as much data as possible, resulting in a massive race beginning between various countries of the world to gain control over it and thus, gain the ability to control the perception of the truth.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
Anticipating that Ethan Hunt would become a threat to it, the Entity recruited an old enemy from his past, the mysterious terrorist Gabriel, to serve as its messenger and enactor of its will. The Entity tasked Gabriel with obtaining the two keys to the locked chamber on board the Sevastopol before the IMF or any other faction could claim them. After Ethan obtained one half of the key from Ilsa Faust and arranged to meet a buyer who apparently had the other half at an airport, the Entity sent Gabriel to the airport with a team of henchmen to retrieve it. It also arranged for a fake bomb to be delivered to the airport, through which it tested Benji Dunn and Luther Stickell by making them decipher a series of riddles that revealed more about their personalities. As Benji and Luther grappled with the bomb, Gabriel and his right-hand woman Paris killed the buyer, only to find he did not have the real key on him. In fact, Grace, a professional thief hired by the actual holder of the other half of the key, pickpocketed the key and escaped with it to deliver it to her employer. The Entity then sent Gabriel, Paris and their henchmen to Rome to retrieve both halves of the key. Following Paris's chase of Ethan and Grace across the city, the Entity made contact with the White Widow to arrange a party with her and sent Gabriel to attend it as its representative. It gave Gabriel instructions to either kill Ilsa or Grace, as by its calculations him doing so would result in him obtaining both halves of the key on board the Orient Express. After a fight broke out between Ethan's IMF team, the White Widow's henchmen and Gabriel and his goons, Gabriel went after Grace to steal her half of the key and execute her to fulfill the Entity's prediction. When Ethan attempted to pursue Gabriel, the Entity hacked into his communications with Benji and, mimicking Benji's voice, fed Ethan fake intel to lead him into an ambush from Paris and one other goon. As a result, Gabriel was able to kill Ilsa and deliver another emotional wound to Ethan. Because the Entity had hacked his computer, Luther was forced to go into a remote hiding place to decrypt the hard drive and remove any traces of the Entity. Before he left, he had a talk with Ethan. When Luther asks, Ethan states his objective to defeat the Entity. Luther asked about Gabriel and Ethan told that he needed Gabriel to tell them what the key unlocks. He then asked if he would remember this when he faces him. Luther tells Ethan that the Entity fears for the worst if Ethan was to learn what the key unlocks. It is counting on one of two most probable outcomes: in the first one, Ethan dies on the train. In the other, the kills Gabriel. Regardless, no matter what the ultimate outcome is, the Entity still wins. The Entity then sent Gabriel to the Orient Express to retrieve both halves of the key, which the White Widow had planned to sell to high-ranking U.S. government official Eugene Kittridge. Per the Entity's calculations, Gabriel was able to snatch the key before facing Ethan in a confrontation on top of the train and then leaping down onto a getaway truck the Entity had prepared for him, at which point he activated bombs he had placed on a bridge to derail the train and kill everyone on board. However, Gabriel then discovered that Ethan had pickpocketed the key from during their fight, leaving him with nothing.
Personality
The Entity is very intelligent and cunning, creating plans on top of plans and manipulating humans to its advantage. It tries to be very mysterious, hiding its true intentions to anyone including its follower.
Abilities
•Hacking: The Entity is capable of hacking into any computer system, no matter how encrypted, as long as they are connected to the Internet. It is also capable of rapidly absorbing data from the servers it penetrates before deleting any trace of itself from the system to cover its tracks. •Precise Calculations: The Entity is capable of making rapid calculations involving the behaviors of certain individuals and the probability of various circumstances occurring to make accurate predictions of the future, including predictions on how individuals are likely to act or what the most probable outcomes of a conflict are and how the likelihood of them occurring can be skewed depending on if certain actions are taken. •Image and Data Manipulation: The Entity is capable of altering and falsifying images and live video feeds from the computer systems it hacks into, allowing it to fool the viewers of the feed into seeing images that are not there. •Impersonation: In addition to being able to distort videos and data, the Entity can also impersonate individuals and mimic how they will act through text messages or even audio communication. It was able to get Ilsa to do what it wanted by sending her fake messages from her British intelligence contacts, and later tricked Ethan by mimicking Benji Dunn's voice.
•Early versions of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning had the Entity's "eye" being red, but director Christopher McQuarrie's relatives and friends pointed out to him that the "eye" made it resemble the Eye of Sauron from The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Adamant that this wasn't the case, McQuarrie rewatched the film and concluded that this was true, leading him to have the Entity's "eye" changed to blue during post-production.
•The Entity was not the first Mission: Impossible villain to use a nuclear weapon:
•In Ghost Protocol, Kurt Hendricks attempted to hit San Francisco with a nuclear missile in order to ignite war between the U.S. and Russia. Ethan successfully disarmed the missile before it could hit the city.
•In the previous entry, Fallout, Solomon Lane and August Walker attempted to pollute the world's largest water supply by detonating two nuclear bombs in the Siachen Glacier. Ethan managed to retrieve the bomb's detonator and remove the firing key, allowing his team to disarm the weapons.
•This time, the Entity is the weapon, as it has the power to hack into government systems and can mimic people’s voices in order to manipulate its targets. Given that it gained sentience, it now uses said abilities for its own benefit and to control the world.
•The Entity, along with Denlinger, Paris and Gabriel are the first villains since Ghost Protocol not to be affiliated with The Syndicate.
The Entity is the overarching antagonist of the 2023 spy action film Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning and will return in some capacity in its upcoming 2025 sequel Mission: Impossible 8. It is a mysterious artificial intelligence initially designed for gathering intel and hacking into enemy systems.
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two release date. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 2 is currently scheduled to be released on 23rd May 2025.
