Ungainly title aside, it’s hard to see next month’s release of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One as anything other than a huge lap of honour for Tom Cruise.
The film was shot during Covid, and leaked on-set audio of Cruise being, let’s say, explosively responsible about social distancing gave him the air of the only man alive who cared about the pandemic. It’s the first film of his released since Top Gun: Maverick single handedly reminded people that cinemas still existed. And, what’s more, the slow drip of production videos where he flings himself from objects of varying heights at varying speeds implicitly promises that Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One will basically be a sort of Competent Jackass.
