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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

“One of the most enchanting aspects of 2018’s Mission: Impossible — Fallout, the last Mission: Impossible film, was the cavalier attitude with which it treated plot exposition. Its opening scenes breezed through a cavalcade of names and organizations and motivations that practically dared you to understand what was going on. This was, honestly, liberating. Don’t worry about why anything is happening, writer-director Christopher McQuarrie seemed to be telling us. Just enjoy the spectacle. This is the movie in which Tom Cruise hangs off a helicopter.” — Bilge Ebiri, “A Familiar Magic Trick Executed to Perfection”

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