Don’t think too hard and you’ll love it
Film critic Jason Evans has made it his mission to tell you everything you need to know about movies in less time than it takes to drive a motorcycle off a cliff. His reviews are exactly 100 words long (99 would be too short, but 101 is just excessive). Here is his 100-word review of Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One.
The Premise – In a story that could be ripped from our
modern headlines, an AI program called The Entity has reached an unprecedented level
of understanding and perhaps even consciousness. There are 2 special keys that
will unlock control of it and every government on Earth wants those keys. Naturally,
the U.S. wants the Mission Impossible team to help find them, but once
Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) figures out the capability of The Entity, he decides it
must be destroyed, not controlled. And that decision puts him and The Entity on
a crash course. The Entity is an enemy unlike anything Ethan has ever faced and
it is willing to use ghosts from his past to stop him from getting the keys.
The film is written and directed by Christopher McQaurrie, who has made a
career out of working with Tom Cruise (Mission Impossible 5 & 6 as well as
Jack Reacher). It also stars Ving Rhames, Haley Atwell, Simon Pegg, Rebecca
Ferguson, and Esai Morales.
The 100 Words – While immersed in this film, I loved it. McQaurrie and Cruise are masters of the action and stunt work (though some sequences go on a beat too long). In the darkened theater, I was enthralled. Then the lights came up and as I started to think about the story, it utterly fell apart. There are conveniences and coincidences that make no sense. The AI is a quirky villain that needs to be better understood. I suspect pandemic-related limitations caused some awkward changes to the story. Still, MI films are about Tom doing ungodly stunts and this film delivers on that.
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