DAC Episode 415 - Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (lol) (2023)

woah fellas, let’s not bother hayley atwell, she’s blameless here

The best thing about the seventh installment of the Mission: Impossible is its strange status as ‘Part One’ of a one-part story. The eighth movie, when it eventually arrived, had grown a protective shell around itself during the many delays in its production, leaving part one wriggling and vulnerable, a larva of pure setup crawling blindly in circles in search of payoff.

In Dead Reckoning Part One Of One, Ethan Hunt finally encounters an enemy that poses a challenge to his bottomless well of will and resourcefulness: a superbeing called The Entity. It’s an AI that wants… wait, what does it want? Why is it doing all the weird stuff that it’s doing? Why is anything at all happening as it does? I guess we’ll find out in Part Two! Womp-womp. Listen below or find us on your podcaster of choice.