{"id":15883,"date":"2023-09-11T21:00:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T01:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15883"},"modified":"2023-09-11T08:55:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T12:55:24","slug":"mission-impossible-7-dead-reckoning-1-2023-christopher-mcquarrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15883","title":{"rendered":"Mission Impossible 7: Dead Reckoning 1 (2023, Christopher McQuarrie)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We prepped by rewatching <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12783\">part one<\/a>, where Kittridge was a standout, just the gov&#8217;t boss who has to say all the plotty dialogue, but he turns it into a twitchy physical performance, so we were psyched for his big return.  I think I got the plot here, but not the allegiances &#8211; Cruise and Kittridge are both trying to destroy the world-domination superconnected AI, but Kittridge&#8217;s guys (Shea Wigham from a lotta shows and a guy named Tarzan from <em>Top Gun 2<\/em>) keep shooting at Cruise.  Thief Hayley Atwell is a welcome addition, comes fully onboard just as Rebecca Ferguson <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2023\/07\/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-ilsa-faust-ethan-twist.html\">checks out<\/a>.  Rhames and Pegg are trying to be the tech help when tech can no longer be trusted.  Weapons broker Vanessa Kirby (soon to be Joaquin&#8217;s Josephine) is excellent as herself and her mask-self.  Human baddie Gabriel (Esai Morales of <em>The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit<\/em>) is both an AI stooge and a boogeyman from Cruise&#8217;s pre-agent past, who falls out with his muscle Pom &#8220;<a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12054\">Mantis<\/a>&#8221; Klementieff at the last minute.  After a thousand sleight-of-hand tricks, Cruise has the key and knows it unlocks a beta version of the AI in a sunken submarine&#8230; somewhere in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We prepped by rewatching part one, where Kittridge was a standout, just the gov&#8217;t boss who has to say all the plotty dialogue, but he turns it into a twitchy physical performance, so we were psyched for his big return. I think I got the plot here, but not the allegiances &#8211; Cruise and Kittridge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,455,1310,1868,181,2092,730],"class_list":["post-15883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-espionage","tag-mask","tag-sequel","tag-submarine","tag-tom-cruise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15897,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15883\/revisions\/15897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}