This post contains spoilers for “Mission: Impossible” – Dead Reckoning Part One.”The latest entry in the “Mission: Impossible” franchise leans on bombastic set pieces to tie its MacGuffin-led plot together, but everything comes together pretty well, thanks to a host of compelling characters.
The tense, globetrotting adventure in “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One” makes way for, um, interesting antagonists, including an AI known as The Entity, who is hell-bent on world domination.
The Entity hides behind its machinating circuitry and lines of code but sends two humans after Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team: the mysterious Gabriel (Esai Morales) and his unpredictable assassin partner, Paris (Pom Klementieff).Klementieff stands out in a film that is already packed to the brim with excesses, thanks to smart, eye-catching costume design and a mostly silent presence that makes her more deadly than Gabriel himself.
Paris seems a bit unhinged from the get-go,…
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