“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” Review

Now in its seventh entry, Mission: Impossible remains one of the most exhilarating action-spy franchises. Though a long way from its simpler roots of the 1960s TV series and the dense structure of the 1990s Brian de Palama picture, the seventh film maintains the high coming off the impressive sixth entry. The stakes get higher, the stunts more elaborate, the plots more thick, and the twists more abundant. In other words, it’s everything you’ve come to expect and love from the MI movies.

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