Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One movie storyline. Ethan Hunt and the IMF team must track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity if it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than the mission — not even the lives of those he cares about most.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is a 2023 American spy action film directed by Christopher McQuarrie, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen. It is the sequel to Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) and the seventh installment in the Mission: Impossible film series. Dead Reckoning Part One sees Tom Cruise return as Ethan Hunt, whose IMF team matches wits with a powerful rogue AI known as “the Entity”. The ensemble cast also features Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Mariela Garriga, and Henry Czerny.
In January 2019, Cruise announced that the seventh and eighth Mission: Impossible films would be shot back-to-back with McQuarrie writing and directing both films. Returning and new cast members were announced soon after, and Lorne Balfe, who composed the score for Fallout, returned to score the film. Filming began in Italy in February 2020 but was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
It resumed later that year and wrapped in September 2021 with other filming locations, including Norway, the United Kingdom, Italy, and the United Arab Emirates. It is the first film in the series since Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) not to involve J. J. Abrams in any capacity and is also the first film in the series to not be produced by Bad Robot Productions since Mission: Impossible III (2006). With an estimated budget of $291 million, it is one of the most expensive films ever made, and the most expensive in the franchise.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One premiered on the Spanish Steps in Rome on June 19, 2023, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 12, 2023, by Paramount Pictures. It received acclaim from audiences and critics alike and has grossed $522 million worldwide, becoming the tenth highest-grossing film of 2023.
A direct sequel, Dead Reckoning Part Two, is scheduled to be released on June 28, 2024, after being delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It was initially billed that both films will be a send-off to Ethan Hunt. In June 2023, McQuarrie told Fandango that Part One and Part Two would not end the series, and they were developing ideas for future installments. In July 2023, during promotion for Part One, Cruise expressed interest in continuing to make further films in the series as Hunt.
About the Story
The next-generation Russian submarine Sevastopol employs an advanced AI for testing a new navigation system that uses dead reckoning. The AI tricks the crew into firing a torpedo and then turns the torpedo back on the submarine, sinking it and killing all aboard.
IMF agent Ethan Hunt travels to the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Desert to retrieve half of a cruciform key from disavowed ex-MI6 agent Ilsa Faust, on whom the IMF has placed a bounty. He then infiltrates a meeting of leaders of the U.S. Intelligence Community in Washington, D.C., including CIA Director Eugene Kittridge and Director of National Intelligence Denlinger, to discuss the rogue AI. Calling it the Entity, they recount how it has achieved sentience and infiltrated the major defense, intelligence, and financial networks of the world. World powers compete to obtain the key to protect their national security and control the Entity, though the exact means of controlling it are unknown. Believing the Entity poses too great a threat to humanity, Ethan seeks to destroy it.
He and his teammates Benji Dunn and Luther Stickell travel to Abu Dhabi International Airport to intercept the holder of the other half-key. Ethan evades US agents as well as Gabriel, an Entity liaison and terrorist with ties to Ethan’s pre-IMF past, while the half-key is stolen by a professional thief named Grace.
Luther identifies a suspicious piece of baggage; Benji finds what appears to be a nuclear explosive, but finds it empty after narrowly defusing it. Ethan pursues Grace to Rome. After a lengthy chase, Grace escapes again, while Ethan reunites with Benji, Luther, and Ilsa. Ilsa informs him that she is involved in this because a group of MI6 agents, her former colleagues, determined that they must prevent the key from falling into British Government hands since their government seeks to control it rather than destroy it.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
Directed by: Christopher McQuarrie
Starring: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Mariela Garriga, Henry Czerny, Shea Whigham, Mariela Garriga
Screenplay by: Christopher McQuarrie, Erik Jendresen
Production Design by: Gary Freeman
Cinematography by: Fraser Taggart
Film Editing by: Eddie Hamilton
Costume Design by: Jill Taylor
Set Decoration by: Raffaella Giovannetti
Art Direction by: David Allday, Anthony Caron-Delion, Gavin Fitch
Music by: Lorne Balfe
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some language and suggestive material.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: June 19, 2023 (Rome), July 12, 2023 (United States)
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