‘Mission: Impossible— Dead Reckoning, Part 1’

BY MEGAN BIANCO, SAN CLEMENTE TIMES

It’s ironic we received new additions to Indiana Jones and Mission: Impossible this July, as both, along with Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne movies, were initially Hollywood’s answers to James Bond’s success.

While Indiana Jones continues to pack on more sentimentality in each new adventure, M:I now holds the standard for quality action sequences. There’s a reason its lead, Tom Cruise, is considered one of the biggest movie stars of all time. To him, the magic of houettes, rather than digital de-aging, which is nice.

Dead Reckoning, Part 1 is more of what we usually get with Ethan on the job: an evil mastermind (this time played by Esai Morales); a crazy, dangerous plan of world domination that will destroy everything; multiple femme fatales (Rebecca Ferguson, Hayley Atwell, Vanessa Kirby and Pom Klementieff) who kick butt; and Ethan’s buddy IMF agents played by Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg.