Christopher McQuarrie returns to co-write screenplay with Erik Jendresen.
Tom Cruise - Ethan Hunt
Hayley Atwell - Grace
Ving Rhames - Luther
Simon Pegg - Benji
Henry Czerny - Eugene Kittridge
Angela Bassett - Erika Sloane
Esai Morales - Gabriel
Greg Tarzan Davis - Degas
Pom Klementieff - Paris
Summary
Two months after the events of Dead Reckoning Part One, the truth-eating parasitic A.I. known as the Entity has infested every corner of cyberspace.
The Entity can only be controlled by its original source code, located inside missing Russian submarine the Sevastopol.
Combining the Podkova (a counter-acoustic algorithmic drive) with Luther's Poison Pill creates a digital toxin, and when uploaded to a physical data drive, will trap the Entity forever.
In four days time, anti-god will acquire the world's entire atomic arsenal and annihilate humankind.
But I'm sure Hunt's team will "figure it out."
Lord of Lies
For over an hour, I was really bored. Badly written conversations spend a lot of time flashing back to previous films and often edited so they lead into another scene.
Dialogue contains heavy exposition, with Benji spewing gratuitous tech babble.
I know that's what series does, but even so.
Apart from a few fist fights and brief gunplay, action is skinny.
Morales' villain hasn't improved from Part One and still has the charisma of a dead slug.
While film is mediocre at best, stunts are on another fucking level.
At St. Matthew Island, Hunt dives into the Bering Sea to retrieve the Podkova from the Sevastopol wreckage. Amidst frozen corpses of the crew, he accidentally causes sub to slide down the continental shelf, making underwater sequence tense, claustrophobic and disorientating.
Once in Austria, we switch between Benji, Grace and Paris hacking a server in the Doomsday Vault and Hunt commandeering a biplane.
Trust me, climax is absolutely breathtaking, easily topping anything crazy bastard has ever performed.
Gabriel jumps using parachute and dies after hitting rudder.
Hunt escapes with the Pill allowing Grace to complete the upload, safely isolating the Entity.
Back in London, Grace gives Hunt the drive and the IMF team go their separate ways.
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