Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands.Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands.Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands.
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Reviewers say 'Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One' offers thrilling action and impressive stunts, highlighting Tom Cruise's dedication. However, the convoluted plot, lack of character development, and inconsistent pacing are criticized. Hayley Atwell's Grace receives mixed reactions. The film's runtime and exposition reliance are contentious, with some finding it dragging and lacking emotional depth. Despite flaws, it is generally an enjoyable franchise entry.
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4 considerations for those with high expectations and who want to avoid severe disappointment:
1 THE NEW ACTORS LACK CHARISMA
I NEED a vicious bad guy, to really pull me into the thrill of the moviie, but none of that! There isnt even one bad guy in particular, because there are now numerous supposedly "bad" guys / girls and they all FAIL to impress me.
Haley Atwell is not my cup of tea either. She unfortunately does get a lot of screentime.
2 IT LASTS TOO LONG
There is WAY too much superfluous (explanatory) talk that really slows down this movie. It lasts WAY too long because of it ( 2hours and 43 minutes). Half an hour could have been easily cut out of it!
I started looking at my watch, halfway through...and I got BORED. There I said it. I say it again, I got blipping bored. That's the last thing I want to experience during an action movie!
3 THE STUNTS DONT LOOK REAL
There is such a heavy layer of ADDED CGI effects, that the REAL stunts actually stop looking real at all. The real stunts look WAY more impressive in the behind the scenes footage, than they do in the actual movie.
4 THE JOKES FALL FLAT
Simon Pegg looks like a really old man now and he somehow has lost his usual wit and charm, which were a delight in the earlier MI movies. Without a witty Simon Pegg, GONE are the jokes as well. I didnt laugh out loud once. I smirked a few times...
This MI movie is definitely one of the worst editions, if not the very worst, because it BORED the heck out of me. THAT has never happened to me before watching a MI movie!
Despite this disappointing conclusion I still wanna thank you for reading my 2001 th review on Imdb.
1 THE NEW ACTORS LACK CHARISMA
I NEED a vicious bad guy, to really pull me into the thrill of the moviie, but none of that! There isnt even one bad guy in particular, because there are now numerous supposedly "bad" guys / girls and they all FAIL to impress me.
Haley Atwell is not my cup of tea either. She unfortunately does get a lot of screentime.
2 IT LASTS TOO LONG
There is WAY too much superfluous (explanatory) talk that really slows down this movie. It lasts WAY too long because of it ( 2hours and 43 minutes). Half an hour could have been easily cut out of it!
I started looking at my watch, halfway through...and I got BORED. There I said it. I say it again, I got blipping bored. That's the last thing I want to experience during an action movie!
3 THE STUNTS DONT LOOK REAL
There is such a heavy layer of ADDED CGI effects, that the REAL stunts actually stop looking real at all. The real stunts look WAY more impressive in the behind the scenes footage, than they do in the actual movie.
4 THE JOKES FALL FLAT
Simon Pegg looks like a really old man now and he somehow has lost his usual wit and charm, which were a delight in the earlier MI movies. Without a witty Simon Pegg, GONE are the jokes as well. I didnt laugh out loud once. I smirked a few times...
This MI movie is definitely one of the worst editions, if not the very worst, because it BORED the heck out of me. THAT has never happened to me before watching a MI movie!
Despite this disappointing conclusion I still wanna thank you for reading my 2001 th review on Imdb.
Woeful script, weak story, shoddy pacing and lengthy exposition reveals how badly COVID hit this production. How the franchise can go from the near perfect cinematic heights of 'Fallout' to this, is so disappointing. Hayley Atwell shines, but even Cruise fails to rescue it. Simon Pegg with no funny lines.. how is that possible? I mean, by action movie standards it's ahead of most, but this isn't any action franchise therefore the disappointment hits hard. I think McQ and Cruise need to rewatch Fallout before they finish up on Part 2. One other thing, having read the bulk of reviews, there are some seriously overrated journalists out there, quite a lot of them by the looks of it. Real cinema fans want rate this one above a 6 or 7, I'd understand if it were lower too.
Just saw this one in a theatre, and boy... what an adrenaline rush it is. The latest Mission Impossible features some of the most incredible stunts ever put to camera. The story is absolutely exhilarating and continues to bring new life to a veteran movie franchise. The sheer scale of this movie is epic, and with every twist and turn of the movie, you cannot help but marvel at the incredible sets used to bring this movie to life. Such a movie begs to be seen on the biggest screen possible where you can truly feel the grandeur of the film. Tom Cruise has once again delivered one of the best movies of the year, and I cannot recommend that you see it enough!
While this movie maintains the stunning action sequences and stunt work, the rest of the movie is severely lacking. Despite the development of the characters from previous movies, they feel very thin and hollow in MI 7. The pacing of the film and writing are quite peculiar. It almost feels hacked together in a messy way. The previous movie managed to create compelling characters, with moments that clearly defined them and made them standout from one another. In this iteration, they feel like rote action movie characters without distinguishing characteristics. The previous movie also managed a sense of whimsy through the writing and cinematography that was completely absent from MI 7. This general tone and pacing was perhaps my favorite aspect of MI 6, so for it to be missing this time around felt like a huge step backwards for me.
Overall, the movie just felt a bit bizarre. Almost like an AI wrote it or something. I seriously hope the next one tries to get closer to the tone of MI 6.
Overall, the movie just felt a bit bizarre. Almost like an AI wrote it or something. I seriously hope the next one tries to get closer to the tone of MI 6.
This movie started out promising but by the end, it just felt like being robbed of two and a half hours. I am a big fan of the MI movies (including MI2, which people seem to hate) and I could appreciate this movie for the few scenes that it did right, but it treats the audience like idiots in its bland, repetitive storyline (how many times do we need to hear the words "the key" and "the entity"? It was as if the writers of this movie just gave up on their jobs when they wrote this. Easily the weakest MI movie ever filmed. It had me staring at my watch every 20 minutes. As others have mentioned, the character development in this movie is also truly awful. I have barely any interest in seeing Part Two of Dead Reckoning at this point. The high scores this movie is getting absolutely baffle me. This movie by no means deserves a score higher than a 6 or a 6.5.
Behind the Scenes of the 'Mission: Impossible' Movies
Behind the Scenes of the 'Mission: Impossible' Movies
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- TriviaThe frequent delays caused by COVID-19 ballooned the budget to $291 million, making it the most expensive Mission: Impossible film (surpassing Fallout, $178 million), the most expensive film of Tom Cruise's career (again surpassing Fallout), and the most expensive film ever produced by Paramount (surpassing Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), $217 million). The insurance company Chubb originally gave Paramount only £4.4 million (about $5.4 million) for the delays, arguing that the cast and crew could still fulfill their duties to the production despite being infected with COVID-19. Paramount sued Chubb in 2021, and the two companies settled in 2022. In 2023, Chubb gave Paramount a £57 million (about $71 million) payout for the COVID-caused delays, reducing the film's budget to about $220 million, which still makes it the most expensive film for Cruise, Paramount, and the franchise. It was then surpassed by its own sequel, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025), with an estimated budget of $300 million.
- GoofsGrace crawls over the coals on the train. For the rest of the movie, her shirt is completely unmarked with any coal stains.
- Quotes
Ethan Hunt: [to Grace] I swear your life will always matter more to me than my own.
Grace: You don't even know me.
Ethan Hunt: What difference does *that* make?
- Crazy creditsDisclaimer as one of the last entries in the end credits scroll: "The Producers wish to express that in no way, shape or form were the Rome Spanish Steps used to drive a moving vehicle down. This segment of the film was re-created with a set built on a Studio backlot."
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- Misión: Imposible - Sentencia Mortal Parte 1
- Filming locations
- Helsetkopen, Møre og Romsdal, Norway(motorcycle jump)
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- Budget
- $291,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $172,640,980
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $54,688,347
- Jul 16, 2023
- Gross worldwide
- $571,125,435
- Runtime2 hours 43 minutes
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- 2.39 : 1
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