Mission: Tom Cruise’s Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part I has proven to be yet another critical success.
The seventh generally speaking film in the Mission: For a series that began 27 years ago, the Impossible series is currently receiving some of the highest praise in the franchise’s history.
The review embargo only lifted on Wednesday night (July 5), so the film’s Rotten Tomatoes score is still in flux. However, the score currently stands at an incredible 98% fresh on the review aggregator.
Dead Retribution Section One figures out how to top Mission: Impossible received a 56 percent approval rating for Mission: Impossible, which is significantly higher than the series’ low point of 97 percent. 2. Impossible
We felt that there was an imbalance between mind-boggling stunts and actual story progression in Dead Reckoning Part One, and as a result, Digital Spy was not quite as impressed as it was in its predecessors.
In his DS review, Ian Sandwell stated, “The new movie is a step down from Fallout, but still a blockbuster that frequently delivers immersive and spectacular action that gets the adrenaline pumping like few other movies can.”
Here are some highlights from other reviews:
The Wrap
“What better mission might there be this mid year other than seeing our never-ending artistic dissident convey one more full-scale realistic experience? Naturally, if you choose to accept it.”
“Dead Reckoning Part One doesn’t just rack up the miles in style,” says the LA Times. It’s also a shining advertisement for Hollywood itself, like so many globe-trotting thrillers and big-screen tourist brochures.”
“The film itself is anything but, with its nearly three hours of running time passing as quickly as it takes a message to self-destruct,” according to Entertainment Weekly. “While the title might feel unwieldy,”
Hollywood Correspondent
“The solid cast, shiny creation values and consistent wow element of the activity offer a lot of interruption from the narrating lacks.”
Time states, “The story only exists as thin interstitial tissue between the Tom-centered stunts, but maybe that’s enough.” Movies that appear to be better have given us less.”
“It feels like a movie that’s been assembled by an inattentive monkey, or a lucky studio intern who was handed a bucket of half-finished rushes and told, ‘Go make a Covid-beating blockbuster out of that,'” according to The Times.
NME
“The plot gets from Westworld and goes for the gold winds up coming out like a silly Christopher Nolan cerebrum fart.”
In Dead Reckoning Part 2, the movie leaves a huge cliffhanger for Cruise and co-writer/director Christopher McQuarrie, but given Cruise’s incredible recent track record, he could very well stick the landing!
Mission: In the United States, Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 opens on July 12 and in the United Kingdom on July 11.