Review of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) by Mstivers — 16 Jul 2023

This is an amazing achievement — it's as if Cruise and McQuarry set out to do a whole set of well-worn action cliches — the car chase, the sword fight, the fight on the train, a motorcycle off the cliff like in Goldeneye — just to prove that they could do them better.

And they pretty much succeed! And the McGuffin/danger in this case is actually something that people worry about — AI taking over the world, which in the case of Cruise is a metaphor for CGI replacing practical stunts and streaming replacing cinema.