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Wild Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning CinemaCon Footage Shows Surprisingly Funny Car Chase
Though none of the cast or crew of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One was around for Paramount’s presentation at CinemaCon on Thursday, attendees were treated to quite a surprise anyway: a 20-minute chunk of the movie.
We should stress, however, that this is not the opening sequence of the film. And so be warned: The descriptions of the clips below could contain spoilers for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.
The sequence began with Hayley Atwell’s character, Grace, being held in a police interrogation room and questioned about her identity. She claims to be a school teacher. (She isn’t.) Fortunately for her, Ethan Hunt is pretending to be her lawyer, and is gonna break her out.
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Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One: Everything We Know About Tom Cruise’s Next Movie
After an extraordinarily lengthy production period, the end is finally near for the seventh Mission: Impossible movie. Dubbed Dead Reckoning Part One, the film is a direct sequel to Mission: Impossible – Fallout and will lead directly into the eighth potentially final film, Dead Reckoning Part Two.
It feels like we’ve been waiting for the new Mission: Impossible for an unusually long time, and it’s because we have. Production was set to start in February of 2020, but of course, the COVID-19 pandemic immediately caused major delays. In the end, it was about a year and a half from that planned start before they finally completed principal photography.
But it was completed, and before too long we’ll be able to see what kind of insane stunts that star Tom Cruise pulled off this time around. But we did, at least, get some bits and pieces from the cryptic first teaser trailer that released earlier this year, which you can check out here.
Like some other long-running franchises with lead actors who are growing pretty long in the tooth for this kind of intense production (Cruise turned 60 this year), they could be drawing the whole thing down here with a two-part film that could bring the whole thing to a close. But they haven’t said that outright just yet–After Top Gun: Maverick blew the doors off the 2022 box office, it’ll likely depend on how Cruise feels after they finish these two up.
But, in the meantime, here’s everything we’ve got on Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One.
When is Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One hitting theaters?
The seventh Mission: Impossible movie is currently scheduled for July 14, 2023.
Who’s directing?
Christopher McQuarrie–who previously wrote and directed the last two Mission: Impossible films and the first Jack Reacher movie, and who wrote Top Gun: Maverick–wrote and directed this film.
Which characters from the other Mission: Impossible movies can we expect back for Dead Reckoning Part One?
Aside from Tom Cruise, who will once again be playing main franchise protagonist Ethan Hunt, his core team of Luther and Benji (Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg) will also be in tow. Rebecca Ferguson’s Ilsa, who’s been positioned as sort of the British version of Ethan over the last couple movies, will also show up. And Vanessa Kirby, who stole the show in Fallout as the alluring arms dealer Alanna Mitsopolis, will return as well.
But maybe even more notable is the return of Henry Czerny (pictured), who played IMF director Eugene Kittridge in the first movie all the way back in 1996. We know he hasn’t been running IMF in the decades since, otherwise we’d probably have run into him again. So where’s he been and what’s he been up to?
Those are all the returning folks we know about right now. But just as Kirby’s character was new in the last film but was actually the daughter of Max from the first Mission: Impossible movie, we should at least expect further connections to the past.
As for new cast members who may or may not have said connections to Ethan Hunt’s past in some way, we’ve got Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff, Carey Elwes, Indira Varma, Shea Whigham and even comedian Rob Delaney, among others.
While we shouldn’t presume to know who’s actually good and who’s actually bad until we watch the movie, Esai Morales is supposedly playing the main villain.
So what’s Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One about?
We have no plot details at all just yet. That last two movies saw Ethan wrestle with a group first called The Syndicate and then The Apostles, defeating them both times and capturing Solomon Lane, the group’s leader, both times as well. But the rest are presumably still out there, and Vanessa Kirby’s Alanna Mitsopolis remains a nebulous wild card.
If this movie is the beginning of the end for Ethan Hunt, then it’s very likely that he’ll be dealing with folks who’ve been involved in his past shenanigans. And they wouldn’t dredge up a character like Kittridge if there wasn’t some big picture purpose to it, like, for example, to establish a new threat from Ethan’s past.
What kind of incredible, death-defying stunts can we expect from Tom Cruise this time around?
There are three big sequences that we know for sure are going to happen. First: a big train crash, with Cruise and Morales filming some kind of action on top of it. Presumably this is at least a nod to the first movie, which also featured a climactic people-on-top-of-a-train action sequence. The snippets we saw of this sequence
The second confirmed stunt involves Cruise ramping off a cliff in Norway on a motorcycle before jumping off and opening a parachute. We actually have behind-the-scenes video of this one that you can watch right here. And you can see how it will look in the movie in the teaser.
And the third big sequence is a car chase in Rome, which we saw snippets of in the teaser trailer.
Over/under on how many key characters will dramatically reveal that they were secretly disguised as a different key char
I’ll set it at 2.5. And I’d bet the over.
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‘Susie Searches’ review: True crime podcasts get a darkly funny reckoning
True crime podcasts have swiftly gone from a fringe hobby to a booming business, spurring not only a slew of shows, much merch, and a hit TV comedy series, but also a lot of questions about the ethics of civilians poking their noses into real-life tragedies. Everyone wants to be a hero. But what lengths might one go to get there? This is the winsome yet disturbing journey at the center of Susie Searches.
Kiersey Clemons stars as Susie Wallis, a socially awkward college student with a mind for solving mysteries. Naturally, she has her own true crime podcast called Susie Searches, so when fellow student/meditation influencer Jesse (Alex Wolff) goes missing, her interest in cracking the case isn’t exactly selfless. If she finds the internet-adored victim, she and her podcast could score the validation she desperately craves. Whether she’s squeezing the sheriff (Jim Gaffigan) for clues, eying a convenient creep (Ken Marino) as a suspect, or scouting out evidence, Susie is on a mission to save the day…and promote herself.
Susie Searches feels like an Only Murders in the Building sibling.
Credit: TIFF
Forget the hardscrabble detectives of film noir; Susie has more in common with Oliver Putnam than she does Sam Spade. Rather than a gun and a trench coat, she carries a big smile smacked with colorful braces and a disarming demeanor that tends to make people underestimate her. She seems childish for a college student and ridiculous as an investigator. But! Plot twist: Susie swiftly discovers the missing student. So, just when you think you’ve fallen into the cozy stroll of a comfort crime watch, Susie Searches unearths new clues and tantalizing twists.
Susie is our chipper tour guide through her yarn wall of conspiracy theories, suspects, and kidnapping drama. However, as she grows closer to finding Jesse, she learns not everything — or everyone — is as they seem. Like Only Murders in the Building, this independent comedy is popping with colorful characters brought to life by chaotically charismatic performers.
Clemons, who has earned praise for tough girl turns in Dope and Sweetheart, plays a plucky oddball with aplomb. Wolff, who horrified in Hereditary, proves a terrific foil as the almost annoyingly zen Jesse. David Walton and Jim Gaffigan add a bit of grit as a pair of world-weary officers who find Susie equal parts pesky and peculiar. Ken Marino is smartly cast as an aggressive fast food joint manager who seems like a funhouse mirror version of his Party Down fool. And Rachel Sennott (Shiva Baby, Bodies Bodies Bodies) is a sparkling scene-stealer as a snotty mean girl who has no time but plenty of side-eye for our perky protagonist.
Susie Searches cuttingly critiques true crime obsession.
Credit: TIFF
Co-writer/helmer Sophie Kargman makes her feature directorial debut with this charming comedy, which is based on her first short film. In 2020’s “Susie Searches,” she also starred as the brace-faced sleuth. However, in re-imaging the conceit for a feature-length film, she and William Day Frank have smartly pivoted to build a string of reveals that keeps the macabre thrills coming. Admittedly, these jolts can make the movie feel episodic, leading me to wonder if they’d initially conceived of this as a web series or TV show. In the right headspace, this uneven ride can feel like binge-watching an addictive limited series. And, frankly, I value the rough edges when they come with such unexpected fun.
For the first act, Susie Searches runs the risk of feeling dated, presenting an amateur detective in the guileless light of literal kids stuff, like Harriet the Spy or Scooby Doo. At this point, we’ve been so glutted with crime shows that this tact feels tired. However, as Susie solves her mystery, the movie moves into motivations, urging the audience to reconsider their heroine, to re-examine the clues, and to question whether what we want is justice or just a good story.
Kargman and Day weave together a deceptively chipper tone with a cynical thread and an appetite for tension for a finale that is outrageous and rewarding. A bright color palette and a score of playful xylophone music knowingly collides with grim content and an alarming reflection of how social media can function — for better but mostly for worse — when a true crime tale becomes national news.
All of this earnestness and energy is intoxicating, whether coming from the score, the flurry of internet graphics, a penchant for split-screen presentations, or Clemons’s direct-address declarations, which radiate with try-hard podcast voice. Even during its bumpiest bits, Susie Searches is a smartly savage and satisfying ride.
Susie Searches made its world premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival in the Discovery slate.