The streaming service has a big premiere. And what a premiere it is – “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One”. This is the most expensive movie of the franchise, Paramount and Tom Cruise’s career. So it’s definitely something incredible!
“Mission” is one of the most popular franchises in the world. And the new movie will not disappoint the audience.
What is the movie Mission Impossible 2023 about?
A Russian submarine uses artificial intelligence to test a new navigation system. The AI forces the crew to launch a torpedo and then turns it to sink the “Russian warship”.
To protect their countries from the interference of the AI-advanced Entity, intelligence agencies begin hunting for the key that will help control the technology. Ethan Gantt, realizing what the Entity is capable of, seeks to destroy it. But he will have to compete for life and the planet not only with AI, but also with the ghosts of the past. Gant realizes that this is his most important mission in life.
Crazy numbers
🔥With a running time of 163 minutes, it is the longest movie in the franchise.
🔥The budget of the film, compared to the previous one, has grown by $100+ million and amounted to $290 million. The reason for this is Covid-19 and the postponement of filming.
🔥Despite the competition with Barbie and Oppenheimer, the film has already grossed over $567 million. The opening weekend in the US and Canada alone brought in $55+ million.
🔥The rating on IMDb is currently 7.9 (based on 143 thousand ratings). On Rotten Tomatoes, critics gave 96% positive reviews, while audiences gave 94%.
🔥Although Tom Cruise was furious that it premiered at the same time as Barbie, he should be happy that audiences liked the movie and are waiting for the sequel.
Tom Cruise and his stunts
✨ In the new movie, Tom Cruise performs a new deadly stunt – he accelerates on a motorcycle and jumps into a cliff, then opens a parachute. This is the most dangerous thing ever filmed in this franchise.
✨ It took a year to prepare! Cruz studied motocross, made 13 thousand motorcycle jumps, and performed 500 skydives. For the stunt to be successful, it was necessary to gain a certain speed, but Cruise admitted that he did not use a speedometer but trusted his own feelings (here is where the picture of Luke from Star Wars immediately comes to mind).
✨A real steam locomotive with a trailer filled with coal was pushed into the ravine for a good shot. The locomotive fell into the ravine from a height of several tens of meters, and this was filmed from ground cameras and a helicopter.
✨And a little bit of magic. Tom Cruise insisted on a “magic trick” with half a key in the airport scene. It took a lot of time, but the scene was shot without any additional visual effects. So Cruise is quite the magician.
Is this the last Mission?
😎Tom Cruise admitted that the second part of The Revenant will be his last appearance as Ethan Gant.
😎”The Mission” is a real era. Just imagine, the seventh installment was released 27 years after the first mission in 1996.
😎Tom Cruise was 61 years old at the time of this movie’s release, and he is four years older than Jon Voight (the mission leader), who was 57 when Mission: Impossible (1996) was released.
😎And the hero of the original film, Eugene Kitridge, the same man who stalked Gant in the first part and even accused his mother of drug trafficking, will appear in this film. So I wonder how the relationship between the characters will develop in this movie?
Marvel Agents in Mission
🦸♀Pom Klementiev (Mantis from Guardians of the Galaxy) impressed the film crew. She was nicknamed Pom Cruz for her gymnastic skills. She also trained with a three-time world karate champion for the movie. She also paid a lot of attention to studying the behavior of the whale-headed stork. Why? The actress had few lines, and she had to convey her emotions and state in a silent way. And she found the birds’ behavior quite sophisticated and dangerous, which was exactly what her character needed.
🦸♀ Cruise’s other co-star is another actress known from the Marvel universe, Hayley Elizabeth Atwell. After her successful role as Agent Carter, she was offered to play similar characters, but she refused. But she couldn’t resist the offer to play in The Mission.
