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While heartfelt may not be a popular description for the first part of “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning,” the seventh installment in the “Mission: Impossible” movie franchise leaves a great impression with its more quiet and vulnerable moments, thanks to the chemistry and history among its characters.
Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt is back along with friends and colleagues from the Impossible Mission Force (IMF), as they square off against an “Entity” of seemingly limitless abilities.
Hunt and his team are looking to retrieve a key that is believed to be the answer to controlling the Entity, which is an AI—claimed to have gone sentient—that has begun to create havoc in the digital space, having crept into central banks and defense systems of several countries.
The search for the key leads the team to action-packed encounters with interesting personas including a new character from Hunt’s past, Gabriel (Esai Morales), who is on the Entity’s side.
With an AI villain in the picture, Hunt’s group find themselves in a battle of wits unlike no other. The team, which includes tech expert Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and field agent Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg), have to make necessary changes in their strategy and setup to elude the Entity.
The scenes with Stickell and Dunn bring the needed humor amid the chaos. The trio’s friendship looks sincere, especially in moments when they converse more as friends than colleagues.
