Review: ‘Dead Reckoning, Part One’ lives up to star Tom Cruise’s notoriously high standards. And the best news? It isn’t even over yet.
That formula is executed with the chops and finesse we’ve come to expect from Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie in “Dead Reckoning,” which delivers bombastic set pieces, bonkers plot elements and some hilarious dialogue in reliably metronomic style. It wouldn’t be accurate to say there are any big surprises in “Dead Reckoning” — it’s too faithful to the series’s fundamentals to be accused of novelty — but therein lies its chief virtue.
The man doing the knitting, of course, is Cruise, who as Ethan Hunt brings a subdued sense of world-weariness to the coolest agent of the Impossible Mission Force. In “Dead Reckoning,” Ethan is doing battle with an invisible, Oz-like blob called the Entity, an artificial intelligence program that is on the verge of going sentient and ending the world as we know it.
Cruise and his alter ego do all this with their on-brand blend of insouciance and intensity; one of the best things about the “Mission: Impossible” movies is how Cruise and McQuarrie know just when to pull back from the self-seriousness to deliver a conspiratorial wink at the audience.
But first — a car chase while handcuffed together driving a microscopic yellow Fiat, careering through the streets of Rome like a demented billiard ball. Or Ethan driving his motorcycle off a cliff in order to parachute down to save the day. Or those wonderful latex masks, peeled off to deliver those classic reveals. That mysterious green haze that knocks everyone out at opportune moments.
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