Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One.There’s nothing that Hollywood loves more than guaranteeing that audiences will come back for multiple installments in a recurring franchise.
One of the most popular recurring trends of the past two decades has been for studios to split the final (or at least a pivotal) installment in a major franchise and divide it into two separate films entirely; if the audience is guaranteed to come back to see the conclusion of the story, it doesn’t matter if they can only watch half of a movie at once.
This summer saw several major “part ones” with Fast X and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, but of all the summer movies, Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One has been the only film that stands on its own as a complete story.
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