Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning (2023)

The first Mission: Impossible film in 5 years starts off a two part adventure which sees Ethan Hunt (and team) try and get a key to destroy an AI force known as 'The Entity'. This first part is basically going to try and get the two parts of the key and that is essentially the single plot of the movie which I don't mind because it keeps things simple and allows the action to take centre stage and that's why we pay to see these films. 

Like other MI films, this film has settings all over the world and makes the story feel a lot more epic and important. The chase scene in Rome was very much (as all the action scenes are) but I was reminded of the chase in Indiana Jones 5 and how tame and dare I say it....dull it seems in comparison to this. All the action scenes are very well done and even the exposition scenes in between were done in such a way that were entertaining. 

Tom Cruise is the king of these films and possibly even the action genre. He might be in his 60's but he still has the energy of someone half his age. All the supporting cast were great and there wasn't a weak link in the chain. Hayley Atwell & Pom Klementieff seem to have moved away from the MCU effectively as Grace and Paris respectively and I thought that Klementieff played a role similar to Dave Bautista played in Skyfall and just as well in my opinion. If I had an issue with the film is that it is slightly too long. It loses a bit of pacing just before we get to the Orient Express but if they had cut 10-15 minutes out of it then I would have rated this a bit higher. It's 163 minutes and to say that it could only lose 10-15 minutes and be better shows how good the rest of the film is.

I enjoyed the film very much and looking forward to the second part.