
Mission: Impossible films are always a lot of fun, and the seventh, latest instalment Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part 1, which came out in UK cinemas yesterday, is just as engaging and exhilarating as the previous films, not to mention incredibly timely, given recent news events.
Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt, who in 2023 is still completing missions for the Impossible Mission Force (IMF) — no, not the International Monetary Fund, the other one — but this time he faces off against a mysterious, sentient, all-powerful artificial intelligence (AI) intent on controlling the world, which calls itself “the Entity”.