Tom Cruise puts man over mission in the Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One trailer
Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt in the long awaited Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One, premiering July 12, 2023
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The new trailer for Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One is here, and it contains one big tease. The newly returned Kittridge (Henry Czerny) tells Tom Cruise’s character, “Ethan, this mission of yours…” Say the thing! Say the thing! We chant from home. “…Is gonna cost you.” Well, maybe it would be silly for the former director of the Impossible Missions Force to toss the i-word around, but this trailer does suggest Ethan will have to make an impossible choice: between his duty and his team.
“In Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One, 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,” reads the film’s synopsis. “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.”
No matter how much Ethan is encouraged to put the mission over his team, the seasoned spy simply won’t accept it. “Your life will always matter more to me than my own,” he tells them. “If anything happens to them, there’s no place that I won’t go to kill you, that is written,” he warns the film’s antagonist Gabriel (Esai Morales) elsewhere.
If the #1 takeaway of the trailer is Ethan’s love for his IMF family, the #2 takeaway is, of course, stunts, stunts, and more stunts. Cruise can be seen battling on top of a moving train, speeding through car chases, and notably riding a motorcycle at high speed right off of a cliff. One expects nothing less of the man who gives his MTV Movie & TV Award acceptance speech while actively flying a jet.
Dead Reckoning has been a long time coming. (Remember when Cruise was recorded ranting to the film’s crew about COVID protocols way back in 2020?) After many delays and shifting of schedules, the film is finally set to premiere on July 12 2023, with Part Two set for June 2024. The film, directed by Christopher McQuarrie, also stars Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Henry Czerny, Vanessa Kirby, Frederick Schmidt, Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff, Cary Elwes, Rob Delaney, Indira Varma, Shea Whigham, Mark Gatiss, Esai Morales and Charles Parnell.
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Oh god this a Part I? They’re really doing that
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Whelp, get ready to plug in my eyeballs Tommy! The Kryptonian contingent will see you in the theaters.
Did a tiny motorcycle fly out of his ear?
Nah, he’s just happy to see you.
Is he actually taller than Hayley Atwell or does he have to stand on an apple crate every time he acts in a scene with her?
Is he actually taller than Hayley Atwell or does he have to stand on an apple crate every time he acts in a scene with her? Don’t be ridiculous.It’s two apple crates.
Ahh ok, that makes sense!
According to google, they’re both 5’7″. In heels, that would make her taller. Bring out the milk crates.
I’m not sure we can top Henry Cavill cocking his arms, but this will do just fine.Actually, this trailer seems to have a bit more CGI than we’re accustomed to in these films. I know they jumped a train off a cliff for filming, but parts of what we see from that sequence look computer generated. Likewise, the fight on top of the train is a bit too obviously green screened. Minor complaints, but we’re so used to Tom Cruise doing everything for real that some of these things stuck out to me.
That’s my main takeaway. The main thing separating MI and maybe John Wick movies from the glut of action movies made every year is they try to do actual stuntwork and minimise CGI. The train sequence looks obviously fake enough to not create much suspension of disbelief.
I like that MI:1 gave us a different take on a train-top chase/fight and showed us how tough it really would be but this looks like a regular moving train battle and a step backwards.
Just once I want to see two dudes face off on top of a moving train, and then just as they start fighting the train slows to a stop. And they’re, like… do we keep fighting?
They climb down and push.
Now I’m thinking about the episode from the most recent season of Archer where they had the “train fight” at the spy convention.
I’ll see this thing, sure (though I might wait for DVD or whatever). But boy oh boy. Tom Cruise’s face looks… uncanny. Not in a good way.I do like these films a lot – but man do they ever mess with my fear of heights. I don’t guess a Mission Impossible movie that takes place at ground level for the whole run time would work, but I would appreciate it.
Non-negotiable hard points for any MI movie:An attractive woman will swoon over Tom Cruise while he will be just too cool / oblivious to react like a normal adult male“Disavowed”Set pieces connected by the flimsiest plot points, yet again and again.Some IT guy solves an otherwise insurmountable problem with a laptop, ie. “We’re in…” “Access granted…” **God, it is sooo boring even thinking about all the other cliches**
Thank god you’re here to save us from potentially having any fun.
Is women swooning over Ethan really a trope in these movies? He’s been married to the same person since the third one.But yeah, he gets disavowed. Every. Damn. Time.
Sex has never been a part of MI — which makes it distinctly different than Bond. I think that’s really the reason why they went this way…and probably because Cruise, for all of his machismo, has never been that good in a romantic role. I think the only exception is Jerry Maguire, and maybe Far and Away?
…maybe Risky Business, in a young-man-fumbling way.