Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One

By SRI HARINI DEVAGUPTAPU Staff Writer

Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible movies have always been fascinating to me, and remain some of my favorites. Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, directed by Christopher Mcquarrie, is the seventh movie of the Mission Impossible series to be released since the last movie in 2018. This is going to be one of the two parts to the finale of the Mission Impossible series and is set to be released on Jul. 14.

Watching the nine minute stunt trailer, which introduces one of the many crazy feats that he has done for this movie, we find out that there is going to be a lot of excitement and much more action than presented. There is no doubt that Cruise has done a lot of dangerous action sequences by doing his own stunts in his movies, although Cruise called this one the most dangerous stunt he’s ever done.

It took years to plan this one out to get it just right. The stunt is done on a large cliff in Norway where he rides a motorcycle to the end of a ramp where it leads to a cliff and launches off of it and base jumping to the bottom. To get the shot right, he attempted the motorcycle jump off the ramp six times until he was satisfied with how it turned out. Cruise has had a year of skydiving training doing 30 jumps and more than 500 skydives a day. He also had motocross training doing over 13,000 motocross jumps a day. After he got used to this, they made Cruise 3D models so they could clearly see how Cruise would do the stunt so they could film it. In the trailer, you can see the hardwork and dedication of making this work for Cruise. The anticipation of whether the entire stunt and plan will work out was really thrilling. The silence as the crew waited for Cruise’s parachute to open up, and the relief they felt as it worked out exactly as they envisioned it was radiating through the screen and everyone watching could feel their emotions. The best part was seeing Cruise ask to redo the stunt a few times over, not even phased by the potential danger he could be in.

From seeing the trailer, the movie seems to be following Ethan Hunt who is an agent working for Impossible Mission’s Force and his team of operatives who are going to be working out completely new obstacles. The trailer offers a glimpse of all the different stunts, action, and settings that are going to be in this film. Because there wasn’t much revealed in the trailer, there is a lot of anticipation about what might be included in the film.

The cast of the movie does include most of the original cast members but has also added additional cast members.. The new characters of the movie haven’t been revealed yet although the director has discussed Grace, the character in the movie who he describes as a destructive force of nature who is ambiguous. Hayley Atwell talked about her character and how they are exploring her resilience to her situation in the movie. There are some new mystery actors they have said they are excited to work with, but we are yet to know who they are.

Even though there isn’t a lot revealed about this movie yet, through the trailers, hints, and sneak peaks given there is a lot to be expected and it is exciting to see. The classic movie series is still continuing on to this day which is really fun. Continue to check out the updates about the movie!