This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movie being reviewed here wouldn’t exist.Though the summer of 2023 has long since become the summer of “Barbenheimer,” it’s also the summer offering the best action film of the year, “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.” The Tom Cruise-starring seventh entry in the “M:i” franchise is as propulsive and thrilling as any other of the series’ installments, full of globe-trotting action, jaw-dropping stunts, unexpected twists, and a disturbingly relevant villain in the form of artificial intelligence.
It is — perhaps fittingly — all but impossible to not think about the “Mission: Impossible” series, especially its most recent title, while watching the new Netflix actioner “Heart of Stone.” No one from “Dead Reckoning” shows up here, but there is a distinct bargain-basement feel to “Heart of Stone…
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