Tom Cruise (courtesy IMP Awards)
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In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan’s past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission – not even the lives of those he cares about most. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is again directed by American filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie, director of the movies The Way of the Gun, Jack Reacher, plus both Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation & Fallout previously. The screenplay is also by Christopher McQuarrie. Based on the television series created by Bruce Geller. Produced by Tom Cruise, J.J. Abrams, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison, & Jake Myers. (courtesy First Showing)
I love a good, world-spanning, escapist, gloriously over-the-top, batsh*t crazy, manically intense, well-done (and that’s key) blockbuster movie!
I love, love, LOVE them!
And chief among them I love and adore the Mission: Impossible films which tick all the big epic cinematic boxes you could ask for, and then some, with a sense of family and a stark sense of good versus evil (even as the movies sit comfortably in a world of moral greys).
They are the best diversion around, and because they are usually so well executed, watching them is pure pleasure because you are never tempted to wish they had some heart to go along with the action, great characters to go along with the thrills and spills, and intimacy of interaction to go along with the expansive narrative.
They have it all and I can see no reason why Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One should be any different and why, when it arrives in just a few weeks it won’t be the perfect way to shut out a broken, nasty world for a few hours …
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One opens in Australia on 8 July and U.S. on 12 July.
And behold four of the posters! For the full suite, visit COMICBOOK
Rebecca Ferguson (courtesy IMP Awards)
Simon Pegg (courtesy IMP Awards)
Ving Rhames (courtesy IMP Awards)
Haley Atwell (courtesy IMP Awards)