2023 · action · spy
Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie2h 44m2023
Ethan Hunt 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. With control of the future and the world's fate 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 must consider that nothing can matter more than his mission—not even the lives of those he cares about most.
Our read: Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · spy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured action / spy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- epic-stakes
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