Two hits in a row for Tom Cruise. This is what happens when you care about audiences

If Tom Cruise isn't saving us from an alien invasion, he's saving us from terrible movies made by terrible people 🎉🎉

Hayley atwell managed to beat the Hollywood trope of the overly competent heroine. She’s good at what she does, and competent enough to pull off a few surprises- but she needs help, and frankly it makes sense that she would. She’s a thief, not a super spy, and you can see how out of depth she feels. And that doesn’t make her less competent or “at the mercy of men.” She just feels like a real character, and shes all the more brilliant for it.

This was the first movie I’ve been to in a long time where people in the theatre were actually enjoying it- like actual laughs and screams from audience. It was also the first time in a _long_ while where people clapped afterwards. I think that says a lot about how great this movie is

Directors : Let's use CGI Tom : I am CGI ( Cruise Going Insane)

It’s very refreshing to watch a movie where actors are standing in actual locations.

Pom Klementieff was incredible in this movie, I was very surprised how good she is. A genuinely menacing and dangerous female villain.

Amazed that Cruise has been playing this character for 27 years and has the physicality to pull it off. It's like Sean Connery playing Bond until 1989. Fun fact, Connery was two years younger in 1989 than Cruise is now.

As a kid growing up in the 80s I never would have guessed that Tom Cruise would be the biggest action star in the world forty years later. But here we are. Keep it going Tom.

I never would have believed that a sequel to a film series that started in the mid 90s and based on an old TV show from the 60s starring a leading man who is in his 60s would be one of the worthwhile event films of 2023...but here we are

I loved the Entity. He is a perfect villain to end the saga. A villain who returns to analog instruments, the most precious resource. And he puts Ethan at 100% of his abilities.

I could agree to everything Drinker say about the movie except for the part of Benji and Luther getting sidelined. What are the "super powers" of Benji and Luther again? Both are good hackers but this time they are dealing with their worse nightmare - AI. Yet once Benji knew they have been played, he was able to improvise as a good IMF agent would. In addition, it is Luther who reminds Ethan the 2 things that he is suppose to remember so as to complete his mission. After their equipment have been compromised, they had to devise a setup so remote that AI cant reach them. This makes it more plausible their performance seem so limited in Part 1. As a as an ex-communications personnel, I am especially hyped to see how they are going to use legacy methods (they already mentioned one of them in this film) to overcome the advanced AI in Part 2.

A friend of mine went to see this film when it opened in Toronto. Little did he or the audience know that Cruise was at the screening and when the movie was over and the lights came on he stood up and thanked everyone for coming out to see the movie. No big camera production about it, just him in the theatre thanking the viewing audience.

I love how the movie starts off with a Thank You message from Tom Cruise to the fans. Modern Hollywood doesn't deserve him.

I liked that before this movie, as with Maverick, Tom addressed the audience in a brief filmed intro and thanked everyone for being there in the theater. Great touch, and it reminds people that we're the reason movie stars stay employed.

I think people also recognize the amount of craftsmanship that Tom brings to the table, and are rewarding him for it.

Let us give props to this movie for having 4 awesome females in 1 movie without any forced bullshit, when rest of the Hollywood hasn't made even one in such a long time... 😆

Tom Cruise never misses. Seeing him save action cinema pleasing the audience and without woke politics is always a delight. Hope it makes a billion.

Just saw this today. A guy that starts off the movie with a message with the director thanking the fans for coming out to catch the movie goes to show the dedication and respect this man has to the fans and deserves all the kudos he can get! Great movie, not the best one imo and not my favorite movie in the franchise, but still a damn great movie overall!

I loved this movie so much. They even managed to make the car chase trope original interesting and even funny. Tom Cruise has still got it he’s the hero we need

Say what you want about Tom Cruise but he's one of the last, true movie stars who still brings us great entertainment without "The Message."

Reasons to love this movie: 1. Good story 2. Amazing action scenes 3. Absolute blast to watch with friends 4. Good characters 5. Women aren't beating men twice their size.

The very best part of this movie is at the very beginning where he and his producer thank the audience for coming to see this movie in a theater. FANTASTIC! What a class act. Thank you Tom Cruise.

I can't believe that Barbenheimer have been more successful this summer at the box office. There's no figuring people??? I have seen MI7 five times and still not bored yet.

Tom Cruise may be a crazy scientologist, but god damn does the man know how to make a movie.

Just watching Tom Cruise running for two hours is way better than anything from Disney

This movie made me believe in cinema again. Tom Cruise is bigger than Hollywood. He gets what the business needs.

I literally just finished watching this film and loved it. I stuck a bit of KZfaq on afterwards, searching for some commentary on the movie and thought: "Drinker you all knowing perpetually inebriated font of movie knowledge and wisdom, surely you have seen this movie and will have put up a review and - just as the time I got home late from a particularly rough night out only to realise there were no beers in my fridge and low and behold, remembered there was a full bottle of brake fluid in my shed - my prayers were answered. Hallelujah.

I remember my grandmother told me, "I don't care what they tell you about movies in school. Mission Impossible is back".

You have no idea how happy it made me to see Grace struggle with precision driving. Instantly made her 10x as likeable.

it feels good to watch a movie without feeling like the writers and producers are letting you know that they are one step ahead of you, better than you. You can tell that this movie was made with the audience in mind and not their ego. Just pure fun adrenaline with a good cast, a good story and good action that feels real because it is.

I laughed out loud in the theater when Grace kept going in circles in the little yellow car and couldn’t get going. Great movie.

I'm surprised that Tom Cruise and Keanu Reeves don't have any spinal issues from carrying the action movie genre on their backs.

Loved the fact that you didn’t even notice the cast was diverse and inclusive 🤣 Who would have thought a good film could just make it happen without forcing it.

I don't know what kind of black magic scientologists do, but holy shit that man never ages!

Thank god Tom Cruise is crazy enough to do this. He might be one of the few people in the industry who still even give a shit. This movie felt like something from another era. A fresh breath of movie purity in a sea of endless cynicism.

Tom Cruise doesnt make bad movies. And God bless a man who understands that masculinity is not toxic, its just masculinity.

It's really quite astounding that at age 60 he's having among the most successful action films of his entire career. Kudos Tom.

This movie was excellent. The rare 2.5-hour movie where I didn't feel the length at all. I was ready for it to keep going. Can't wait for Part 2.

Saw it yesterday. Wow. It delivers. And Haley Atwell....give this woman more (good ) work!! I like the way they teased us with the bike stunt, but then fit several other outstanding action sequences int to the movie so by the time he does fly off the mountain, it's like "cool". Interesting that the trailers show what appears to be a scene under the ice of someone recovering the keys from the dead submariners...that person wears what looks like a submarine scape/rescue suit. Also, during the desert attack scene, they held prominent shots on a masked figure of small stature on the assault team...was that supposed to be be Paris in an alternate cut?

Just for reference, Tom Cruise (61) is older now than Jon Voight (58) was when he portrayed Jim Phelps in the first Mission Impossible movie. It makes all the stunts in this movie all the more impressive.

Hayley Atwell was the best thing about this movie. Hot and seductive, and not once overshadowing Cruise, the clear male lead. No 'don't hold my hand' or 'I'm an independent woman' BS. Instead, 'you drive' and 'promise me you'll be on that train'. So goddamn refreshing.

I think the biggest problem with Dead Reckoning is it's poor timing on release. They should have waited until august to release this movie once the Barbenheimer craze died down.

I noticed a few goofs on second viewing (all near the end of the movie). 1) After Grace puts on the White Widow mask, her hands and nails also magically change 2) One of the humungous splashes of the falling train cars is cut noticeably short via an angle change 3) When Benji is waiting for Ethan to land the speedwing, his conspicuously large watch switches to his left wrist when he looks through the binoculars.

Watched it with my parents today. Right after leaving the theater, my dad said "this was like 20 times better than Indiana Jones." Can't wait for Part 2.

Tom is pretty much the only one offering a reason to go to the theatre as opposed to watching it at home.

The movie was truly inspiring. Great review.

First Top Gun, Now this. Tom Cruise is on a roll.

One thing I loved about Grace as a character is that she had GENUINE development through the movie. When she first meets Ethan, we get the impression that she’s a femme fatale kind of similar to a character like Black Cat. Intelligent, cunning and not afraid to do anything she can to get what she wants. But as the movie goes on, we see a more vulnerable and emotional side to her which eventually grows into determination and courage (going from stealing the key from Ethan numerous times to agreeing to help him and eventually join the IMF). Unlike a certain character who “helps” Indiana Jones who’s name I won’t even mention.

I agree with almost everything in this review, except I don't think the dialogue was too long. I needed those dialogue-heavy bits to recover from the adrenalin-overload, death-defying action sequences. Best film of the decade.

Absolutely agree with the Drinker. Tom Cruise is a Stakhanovite actor who puts the movie first and it shows. This guy has been delivering since PS1 was a thing (just to paraphrase the Drinker) and can hardly recall any movie that sucked. Aside from the MI series, think about Rain man, The Top Guns, Born on Fourth July, A Few Good Men, Eyes Wide Shut, Minority Report, Oblivion, Vanilla Sky, The Last Samurai, Jack Reacher hell he even blew us away in comedies like Tropic Thunder and I also had fun with Knight and Day. In another video the Drinker mentioned that nowadays there are no movie stars in Hollywood anymore - so you won’t go watch a movie just because of an actor. I very much agree with it but I believe Cruise is an exception - at least for me. And probably DiCaprio. Anyhow - hope we will still be getting TC for many years.

Who knew Tom Cruise's ego could become the thing we wanted and needed most in modern Hollywood.

I was part of the background actors in the Abu Dhabi scene for this movie. It’s awesome!! Happy that I could be a part of such a big successful project, and that there are still good movies made nowadays. Tom Cruise is a professional, and so is Christopher McQ

I felt very entertained, even with the 2.5 hours. Sad it's not doing better. Wish part 2 was this year.

I see a lot of people here adulating this movie. Did we watch the same movie? Did you watch the last movie? Or are you just granting a standing ovation to a movie that doesn't deserve it merely because you approve of its politics? The movie's script is a disgrace and the plot is atrocious. And before you say that the movie had good special effects and action set pieces, watch Fallout again and rethink your answer. In Fallout, we had Tom Cruise actually do an extreme skydive that required an oxygen supply, we had a helicopter chase where tom cruise actually learned how to fly a helicopter, we had beautiful chase scenes in paris. In the latest movie, there were fewer of these key setpieces, and they were significantly less interesting. The best sequence was the rome chase sequence and it was still a far cry from previous installments. I think that the cliff jump onto the train was the only stunt that Tom Cruise actually did this time around, and it was good for a whole 10 seconds. One of the starkest difference between the action of this movie and the action of the previous movie is the increased use of CGI. There was practically no CGI in Fallout, and nearly every action scene in this movie did have CGI. The bottom line is the biggest selling point of the MI series, the action set pieces, had a significant drop in quality between Fallout and Dead Reckonning in a very objective sense. To better understand just how much worse this movie was from the last one, let's compare two different scenes between the two movies. Just compare the cold open of Fallout to the cold open of this dumpster fire. In Fallout, there was an awesome mind bending red herring that kicked off the rest of the movie. In this movie, we have an atrociously written expostion dump about an A.I. that doesn't do anything the whole film, but is rather upstaged by bootleg Georgy Clooney.

Christopher McQuarrie is consistently proving himself to be one of the best writer-directors in Hollywood.

It is amazing what is possible when you put the audience first instead of your preferred narratives!

The best (and toughest) movie I’ve worked on so far. Tom is a super professional and considerate man and the stunt team were all hand picked for their individual skills and professionalism.

I love how you included the blink and you'll miss it clip from Red Dwarf. My all time favorite show!

We saw it opening night. Even my wife loved Grace’s character. How real and believable she was compared to other “strong female characters”.

I actually loved the scene where Tom randomly blasts through the train window. It was utterly ridiculous but at the same time brilliant. Pure mission impossible.

Saw this last night and loved it. Agreed about the dialogue being clunky at times--there were points where it felt like some characters were making carefully pre-rehearsed speeches rather than actually, you know, talking like real human beings. These quibbles were fairly minor, though. Tom Cruise delivers once again.

Despite Tom Cruise’s association with Scientology and all the horrible things we hear about that religion, it is hard not to deeply respect Cruise’s utter fearless dedication and professionalism. The man has the drive and energy that ten young men would be happy to share. I don’t think there is a single movie casting Tom Cruise, with perhaps the exception of movies like Legend, that I haven’t enjoyed. He is a man whose mere involvement in anything raises the bar and almost guarantees quality. I wonder whether he will be able to transition to less bleeding edge physical roles, or whether he will end in a blaze of glory. Godspeed, Tom Cruise.

I like that as outrageous as the action/stunts are they somehow seem more grounded in reality than what we get from the Fast & Furious franchise.

I really liked how Haley Attwells character was a bit out of her depth when it came to action, but she confronted her fears and tried hard to keep up. I really enjoyed her development

You're a real Mensch, Critical. Well done!

Just watched it today and it just shows how good the movie was that just the pre-title section alone made me feel I got my money's worth already. The intro was so enthralling I didn't even realize the titles hadn't rolled yet until they did and that portion alone was better than many whole movies (looking at you Fast X).

We need more directors like Christopher McQuarrie, Chad Stahelski, and Sam Hargrave.

I really like how Tom Cruise starts his movies with a personal message thanking the audience. It shows humility and gratitude from a man whose career has been consistently so huge that he doesn't have many reasons to be humble. Of course, if Hollywood ever caught on to this little detail, you know they'll try to replicate it with none of the sincerity. Imagine Disney jumping on the bandwagon and dragging out Brie Larson to lie to us all about how much she appreciates us coming out to support her passion before airing a movie that insults half the audience, or having Harrison Ford lie to us about how important a certain character is to him before airing a movie that totally trashes him while he phones in a performance in his street clothes.

Saw this movie today. It certainly lived up to the hype. Yes there were parts of the movie that pushed the envelope of believability, but overall I didn’t care because it was so entertaining. Drinker, you said it felt too long to you. I couldn’t disagree more. The pace of the movie was terrific. Every sequence flowed into the next perfectly. Crazy stunts coupled with some edge of your seat action sequences kept me thoroughly engaged in the film right to the end. The characters were engaging and likable. The villains were great. There were strong female leads that held there own with the main male leads without needing to come across as condescending or overly feminist. This is what a James Bond film should be, not that pile of crap in the last film. I thought this was the best Mission Impossible film so far. I am looking forward to seeing if the 2nd part can match or top this.

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One thing that stood out for me is how realistic the female characters were. You touched on how likeable they are and the reason for that was... they have weaknesses they were human. Small details i picked up on... when Grace got into fights... anytime 2 guys were fighting her she always would lose. Even one on ones she usually got off worse. Also i noticed during the train scene how ethan would hold her hand help her up help her avoid things and protect her. She never once slammed him saying 'i can do it myself thank you' or finally when he had to jump to the ledge to save her and she was petrified. It really made her so likeable and grounded. Well done Tom... what a film!

Always love to hear The Critical Drinker’s mean-spirited laugh at Disney’s expense

Tom Cruise is 60 years old. Amazing Actor. Evolving all the time.

3:41 The fact that Drinker knows Red Dwarf just made me appreciate him even more!

I think Henry Czerny as Eugene Kittridge is the show stealer in this film. He brings to much intensity, gravity and intrigue to every scene he is in. His epilogue towards the end makes for the perfect ending. Those two guys chasing Ethan the whole way were awesome too

Let be honest. If tom is in charge you know you are going to get a good movie

I saw this masterpiece this week and there was about ten people in there... the screen was way smaller than I expected and it was dubbed (I got frustrated) BUT 3 hours later I was, shocked, impressed, AMAZED by what I just saw! I spent a long time reminiscing the scenes. Itwas awesome. Can't wait to see it again! Thank you Tom and everyone involved in this amazing movie!

OK I need to point out something that I am noticing. Positive reviews from the Critiical Drinker are the movies I actually want to watch. Good work bro, you are now my number 1 source of movie reviews. Every other film can pound sand. Hats off to you. With great knowledge comes great responsibility and it is in good hands. Keep up the good work.

Tom Cruise, Keanu Reeves, and Henry Cavill are the most dedicated actors in Hollywood.

Nearly 3 hours of intrigue, action, suspense, and humor, carried along by a compelling story and great actors. We would have sat through another 3 hours and loved every minute of it.

I loved when Tom flew in the train window !

I agree about the characters, and the female roles were super cool without trying to be the dreaded "strong women". However, the film was overlong, and all the fighting sequences made the film boring and slowed down the pace. I also hoped it would delve more into the A.I thing, but it was all quite superficial. The first Mission Impossible is a masterpiece. Mean and lean and much smarter than any film that is made today.

Finally saw it today. The scenes with Cruise and Atwell are THE reason to see this movie. Both are incredible.

What Tom Cruise is doing at his age is very impressive and I'm glad we still have him, because we somehow still don't have anyone to replace him after all these years.

This is now my favourite channel on youtube.

I hate to say it but MI7 wasn't as great as it should have been. The plot/story was not as intense as it should have been along with some other major issues. 1) They killed Elsa and didn't even leave much to mourn her loss. Frankly, I thought she could have been Ethan's significant other at the end of the series because they are so much alike and there is definite chemistry. 2) The humor was definitely badly timed especially when the scenes should have stayed intense; the car chase scene comes to mind. There were other things as well but those two really stood out in my mind.

I like that even though The Entity didn’t get THAT much focus, it still ended up being a unique depiction of a rogue AI in the digital age. You don’t need to mass produce terminators to enact your will when you can already analyse and control every digital datapoint on earth. Will be interesting to see if the sequel does anything cool with it

Thank God for Cruise, Nolan, and Villeneuve for delivering blockbusters I actually want to see.

Watched the movies 4 times already and enjoyed it, it was nice to hear audience wistle , laugh, it's fun movie

It's not that Tom Cruise doesn't use CGI or VFX. It's how he uses it. He does is own stunts with a little CGI to aid the actual physical stunt. Unlike other movies that rely purely on CGI Impossible Dead Reckoning, I heard it's a box office bomb. I love it though. I badly felt the run time but felt like it could have some fat trimmed.

Tom Cruise is a rare talent. Someone who commits fully in his role without question. He and the production here understands what people want to see and most importantly what people Don’t want to see.

I really love how every action scene put the main protagonists in real danger and struggle every time

This is the beat action Movie I’ve seen to date. I absolutely love this movie… EXCELLENT!!!!!!!! Hands down….

Saw this last night and had an absolute blast. Its almost 3 hours long and i didn't notice at all. Was hooked in for the entire, crazy and awesome ride. So refreshing to see a new film come out this year that delivers like this. Bring on Part 2!

This movie was incredible .. The submarine opening of the movie alone is worthy of the ticket

I still remember the first mission impossible. Man the 90s were so awesome. That sneaking in scene where he comes down from the ceiling is still a gold standard.

The part about the dialogue was spot. About 3 scenes I can remember of obnoxiously long exposition dumps. I'm not a short attention snap Gen-Zer but man those were tough to listen to and very confusing.

its very good, one of the best in MI franchise. very surprising that it is struggling at the box office. even collecting lower than barbie. hopefully it will breakeven cause i want to see dead reckoning part 2

Tom Cruise sets out to actually entertain the audience instead of annoy, frustrate or insult them. A strange concept for Hollyweird today and they wonder why his movies sell seats!