‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Reviews Hail Another Triumph for Tom Cruise

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wrote for TheWrap. “Lest we forget, he is one hell of a dramatic actor with the sharpest of blue-eyed stares, carrying the weight of a rootless character through several savagely emotional moments, one of them, genuinely heartbreaking.”Unlike past “Mission” films, “Dead Reckoning” has been divided into two parts, with the second part coming out in June 2024.

While some critics praised the plot’s timely focus on the threats of artificial intelligence, others felt that Ethan Hunt’s personal stakes in this partly finished story aren’t as compelling as in past movies like “Fallout,” and that the plot often feels like a vehicle to transport Cruise to another exciting sequence. “Cruise’s devotion to practical action and his insistence on doing most of his own stunts, many of them quite dangerous, are already the stuff of legend, or at least a bunch of press releases, and it’s not giving too much away to say that the plot […] is virtually unfollowable after about the first third,” wrote Time’s Stephanie Zacharek. “The story exists only as flimsy interstitial tissue between the Tom-centric stunts, but maybe that’s enough.

Ostensibly greater movies have given us less.”Read more reviews of “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One” below: Charlotte O’Sullivan, London Evening Standard“That [Cruise], now 61, allegedly does his own stunts, (and sets himself harder tasks the older he gets), is all part of what makes the franchise tick.