Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) - Review

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) - Review

Directed by: Christopher McQuarrie

Written by: Christopher McQuarrie, Erik Jendresen

Starring: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Mariela Garriga, Henry Czerny

Runtime: 163 min

Synopsis: Ethan Hunt (Tom 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.

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Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Christopher McQuarrie

Written by: Christopher McQuarrie

Starring: Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Alec Baldwin

Runtime: 147 min

Synopsis: Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and the IMF team join forces with CIA assassin August Walker (Henry Cavill) to prevent a disaster of epic proportions. Arms dealer John Lark and a group of terrorists known as the Apostles plan to use three plutonium cores for a simultaneous nuclear attack on the Vatican, Jerusalem and Mecca, Saudi Arabia. When the weapons go missing, Ethan and his crew find themselves in a desperate race against time to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands.

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Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation (2015) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation (2015) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Christopher McQuarrie

Written by: Christopher McQuarrie, Bruce Geller

Starring: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Alec Baldwin, Sean Harris

Runtime: 131 min

With the IMF disbanded, and Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) out in the cold, the team now faces off against a network of highly skilled special agents, the Syndicate. These highly trained operatives are hellbent on creating a new world order through an escalating series of terrorist attacks.

Ethan gathers his team and joins forces with disavowed British agent Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson), as the group faces their most impossible mission yet.

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Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Brad Bird

Written by: Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec

Starring: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Paula Patton, Josh Holloway, Michael Nyqvist, Vladimir Mashkov, Lea Seydoux, Anil Kapoor

Runtime: 132 min

This is not just another mission. The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in a global terrorist bombing plot. Ghost Protocol is initiated, and Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his rogue new team must go undercover to clear their organization's name. No help, no contact, off the grid. You have never seen a mission grittier and more intense than this.

Brad Bird is the director, and Jeremy Renner (William Brandt) is one of the new additions to an already recognizable cast.

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Mission: Impossible III (2006) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Mission: Impossible III (2006) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: J. J. Abrams

Written by: J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci

Starring: Tom Cruise, Michelle Monaghan, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames, Billy Crudup, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Keri Russell, Simon Pegg, Maggie Q, Laurence Fishburne

Runtime: 127 min

The third entry in the Mission: Impossible film series involves Impossible Mission Forces (IMF) agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) being forced back into the field just when he was planning on marrying his girlfriend, Julia (Michelle Monaghan).

His mission, should he choose to accept it, is to capture Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a dangerous weapons dealer who is selling a toxic weapon. Eventually, Davian makes things personal, and Hunt has to protect the ones he cares about.

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Ready Player One (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Ready Player One (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Steven Spielberg

Written by: Zak Penn, Ernest Cline

Starring: Tye Sheridan, Ben Mendelsohn, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, Olivia Cooke, Lena Waithe

Runtime: 140 min

In the year 2045, people can escape their harsh reality in the OASIS, an immersive virtual world where you can go anywhere, do anything, be anyone ... The only limits are your own imagination. OASIS creator James Halliday (Mark Rylance) left his immense fortune and control of the OASIS to the winner of a contest designed to find a worthy heir.

When unlikely hero Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) conquers the first challenge of the reality-bending treasure hunt, he and his friends are hurled into a fantastical universe of discovery and danger to save the OASIS and their world.

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