Dead Reckoning

This week's movie from the public library was Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One ...

a 2023 American spy action film .... It stars Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, alongside an ensemble cast including Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales .... In the film, Hunt and his IMF team face off against "the Entity", a powerful rogue AI.

I have liked Tom Cruise as an actor since his 1985 film Legend ...



But I especially like him in the Mission Impossible films (except for #2), and this one is no exception. Many fun stunts, nice foreign locations, Tom Cruise running fast :)

Cruuse actually does a lot of his movie stunts himself. In one of those WIRED Google question videos, he mentions his many physical talents ...



The latest MI movie got very good reviews. Here's a bit of what The New York Times had ...

‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One’ Review: Still Running

[...} This time, the villain is the very au courant artificial intelligence, here called the Entity. The whole thing is complicated, as these stories tend to be, with stakes as catastrophic as recent news headlines have trumpeted. Or, as an open letter signed by 350 A.I. authorities put it last month: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from A.I. should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks, such as pandemics and nuclear war.” In the face of such calamity, who you gonna call? Analog Man, that’s who, a.k.a. Mr. Hunt, who receives his usual mysterious directives that, this time, have been recorded on a cassette tape, an amusing touch for a movie about the threat poised to the material world by a godlike digital power ...

Looking forward to part 2.