Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) Movie Review

If the undoubted cinematic success story of the year was Barbenheimer, it's undoubted biggest victim was Mission: Impossible 7. Coming off the back of Tom Cruise's most warmly received mega hit, Top Gun Maverick and with stellar reviews, the movie hit the immovable force that 76% of movie goers were watching either Barbie or Oppenheimer in its second week of release. Often analogous with The Fast and Furious franchise, there were a couple of weak-spots compared to the previous three high water marks. It's still ultra high quality entertainment and nowhere near Fast X stagnation yet, but some of the same signifiers are emerging, repetition, fatigue, reusing old cast members and perhaps most egregious - denying the satisfaction that a complete movie would offer. I'm still desperate to see the next one though.