Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning, Part 1, Movie Review — What makes this film so great?

Erin Underwood
5 min readJul 9, 2023

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 clocks in at a fast 2 hours and 43 minutes, the seventh film in the Mission Impossible franchise might just be the smartest film of the series, and it gets four very important things right.

The Impossible Missions Force (IMF) is chasing a world-changing secret weapon, and they are up against a bunch of people who are all angling to find the keys to controlling it, including one very special enemy who knows their every move before they…

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Erin Underwood

BIO: Erin Underwood is the senior event content producer for MIT Technology Review’s emerging technology events. On the side, she reads, writes, and edits SF.