(Even so, imagine Lionel Messi playing for the World Cup, or Tom Brady in the Super Bowl, at Cruise’s age.) The boy-girl pairing in “Mission 7” (there are two women in that role) works better than that in “Dial” primarily because Grace (Hayley Atwell) comes to the part with a backstory and a skill set (including as a deft pickpocket), though it helps that Cruise isn’t an octogenarian.
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Tom Cruise, as Ethan Hunt, poised to engage in some humor before he plunges on his motorcycle down this cliff in the Alps (though shot in Norway).Īt age 61, Tom Cruise (as Ethan Hunt) makes more sense as an action hero than Harrison Ford at 80 as Indiana Jones in “Dial.” Not all-indeed, not much-of what Cruise does on screen is credible, but apparently he can still sprint at full speed and drive a motorcycle. The films share the storied “quest”/Odyssey, and the objects sought are curiously similar, one an ancient gold time-travel contraption, fashioned by Archimedes the other, ancient in appearance, a gold, bejeweled, computerized key. An absolutely riveting moment, even if to get to it one must endure still another episode of two guys-fighting-on-top-of-a train, this rendition marred by the knowledge that, constrained by the plot, neither one will be thrown off.īoth films have standard vehicle chase scenes, though at least the stars of “Mission 7” don’t try to work out their relationship while going down Rome’s Spanish Steps (ala “no animals were harmed,” the credits note that the Spanish Steps-protected by the authorities to the point where it’s illegal to enjoy a gelato on them-were not used in the production). Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One ★★★ (out of four stars)Īfter sitting through 5 hours and 17 minutes of “blockbuster” action-the film under review and the recently released “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”-we think we’re entitled to make a few comparisons, before getting to the meat of the current, 7 th edition of “Mission Impossible.” “Mission 7” has better action scenes, especially the last, gravity-defying adventure on a train that’s in, let’s say, a precarious position.
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