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

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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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Top Gun: Maverick (2022) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Top Gun: Maverick (2022) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Joseph Kosinski

Written by: Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, Christopher McQuarrie

Starring: Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, Val Kilmer

Runtime: 131 min

Synopsis: After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), call sign: “Rooster,” the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka “Goose”. Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.

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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Mission: Impossible II (2000) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Mission: Impossible II (2000) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: John Woo

Written by: William Goldman, John Logan, David Marconi, Michael Tolkin, Robert Towne, Rick Berman

Starring: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton, Ving Rhames, Brendan Gleeson, Dominic Purcell

Runtime: 123 min

Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt, an operative for the top-secret government agency IMF (Impossible Missions Force). Fellow agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) has gone rogue, stealing a sample of a deadly synthetic virus named Chimera that could rapidly wipe out the world's population.

Ethan is assigned to recruit the help of Ambrose's former lover Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Thandie Newton), who may be able to quickly regain his confidence. Sophisticated disguises, gun battles, and high-speed chases are the order of the day ...

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Mission: Impossible (1996) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Mission: Impossible (1996) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Brian DePalma

Written by: Robert Towne, David Koepp, Steven Zaillian, Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz

Starring: Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Jean Reno, Emmanuelle Béart, Henry Czerny, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave, Emilio Estevez

Runtime: 110 min

Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is a secret agent framed for the death of several comrades and falsely branded a traitor, who embarks on a daring scheme to clear his name in this spy adventure.

Fleeing from government assassins, breaking into the CIA's most impenetrable vault, clinging to the roof of a speeding bullet train ... Hunt races like a burning fuse to stay one step ahead of his pursuers and draw one step closer to discovering the shocking truth.

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