Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

With the weather looking a bit changeable, we went to the cinema to see Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, the seventh installment in the Mission: Impossible film series.

This story is a direct sequel to Mission: Impossible - Fallout and stars Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, alongside regular IMF sidekicks Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) as well as IMF Director Eugene Kittridge (Henry Czerny). Also returning are British agent Isla Faust (Rebecca Ferguson), and the shady black market fixer called the White Widow (Vanessa Kirby).

The mission is to recover one part of a cruciform key, trade it to a dealer and then follow him to see where it leads in the hope that they'll get both parts of the key and find out what it opens as their superiors believe it crucial for humanity's survival. If we don't have the key, which they think will give whoever has it, will have control over a mysterious and extremely powerful AI program called "The Entity". They also really don't want it falling into the hands of Gabriel (Esai Morales), a shadowy and somewhat nihilistic enemy from Ethan's past.

Needless to say, nothing goes to plan and when international thief Grace (Hayley Atwell) pickpockets the dealer before the meet and steals one part of the key,we're on board the usuall high quality stunts and special effects rollercoaster that Mission Impossible is famous for. We get car and motorbike chases, a runanway train, a time-limited nuclear bomb disarming, lots of edge of the seat tension and a high body count of thugs and henchmen (mostly).

It's must-see for fans of the franchise and we thoroughly enjoyed it. Can't wait for Part Two. 9/10 😀