Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One - Reviews

...the pure fun involved in this film, its silly-serious alchemy, and the way the franchise seems to strain at something crazily bigger with every film, as opposed to just winding down, is something to wonder at.

...one of the most audaciously extended action set pieces I have ever seen, which left my nails not so much bitten as gnawed to the bone.

This is blockbuster filmmaking so exhilarating that most other major franchises should be embarrassed; the epitome of what popcorn cinema can and should be.

My God, there’s just nothing Tom Cruise will not do to entertain the masses.

While the title might feel unwieldy, the film itself is anything but, its nearly three-hour running time passing as quickly as it takes a message to self-destruct.