MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART 1
Paramount Pictures
Released Monday 10 July
Synopsis: Ethan Hunt and the IMF team must track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity if it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than the mission – not even the lives of those he cares about most.
Cast: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Esai Morales, Vanessa Kirby, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Cert: 12A
Tom Cruise proves that he is the biggest star in the world, and perhaps the biggest star ever. After last year’s very successful Top Gun: Maverick, which grossed an astounding $1.5 billion worldwide, Cruise looks to top this with his newest film in the Mission Impossible franchise. Yes, you read the title correctly, this is Part 1, which leaves a cliffhanger at the very end of a long film (2 hours and 43 minutes) for Part 2. You’ll need to suspend disbelief as Tom and his gang (Atwell, Rhames and Pegg) survive near death misses (misses that any normal human would not survive). This includes a motorcycle jump off a cliff that Mr. Cruise did himself (talk about taking risks for your art), risks that Tom has done for quite a few of his films (including where he went to new heights both literally and figuratively in November 2010 when he climbed the Burj Khalifa in Dubai for Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. For Tom Cruise, all missions are possible!
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A KIND OF KIDNAPPING
Bulldog Film Distribution
Release date: Friday 14 July | Cert: 15
SQUARING THE CIRCLE
Dogwoof
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WHILE WE WATCHED
Met Film
Release date: Friday 14 July | Cert: 15