Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) Movie Review

If the undoubted cinematic success story of the year was
Barbenheimer, it's undoubted biggest victim was Mission:
Impossible 7. Coming off the back of Tom Cruise's most warmly
received mega hit, Top Gun Maverick and with stellar reviews, the
movie hit the immovable force that 76% of movie goers were
watching either Barbie or Oppenheimer in its second week of
release. Often analogous with The Fast and Furious franchise,
there were a couple of weak-spots compared to the previous three
high water marks. It's still ultra high quality entertainment and
nowhere near Fast X stagnation yet, but some of the same
signifiers are emerging, repetition, fatigue, reusing old cast
members and perhaps most egregious - denying the satisfaction
that a complete movie would offer. I'm still desperate to see the
next one though.