While the world awaits the premiere of Barbenheimer, Tom Cruise arrives at the theatres fashionably early to steal the spotlight and leave the audience on a high before Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, and Cillian Murphy can collectively act as the season’s showstopper.
Mission Impossible 7 has yet to launch on the big screen and people are already half-dazed, confused, and breathless with anticipation after the cliff-diving adrenaline sequence coupled with half a dozen personalized videos from planes and jets that seek to promote the actor’s latest superspy installment.
Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible 7 Sets Another Record
Whether high-octane action espionage thriller or not, there is an elemental quality to Tom Cruise that makes the actor stand out from the rest. The mission – should he choose to accept it – was to create an almost superheroic franchise out of a James Bond-esque character. The spy, Ethan Hunt then evolves alongside a global array of allies and foes who are either out for his blood or become unlikely friends and eventual partners in the fight against evil and shadowy organizations.
Armed with this formulaic recipe, the Mission Impossible franchise becomes one singular storyline divided into eight parts spread across the span of 28 years. With Tom Cruise leading the crew since Mission #1, the film series becomes a record-setting and record-breaking machine, creating history with each film installment.
Most recently, the early screening of Mission Impossible 7 debuted the film with a rare 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with 85 critics and a later 98% rating with 120 critical reviews, making Mission Impossible the only franchise with the same cast and a linear storyline to have more than 4 films with 90+ rating on the film critic website.
Now, with 139 reviews and counting, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One stands at a proud 99% on the website – making it Tom Cruise’s highest-rated film to date – as it gears up for a global premiere in less than 5 days’ time.
Tom Cruise Soars Higher Than Ever With Mission Impossible
If there is one piece of work attributed to each artist as their masterpiece, Mission Impossible is quite obviously the defining one for Tom Cruise, despite his Oscar-nominated Best Actor role in Jerry Maguire, the Oscar-winning film Top Gun, and the 6 Academy Awards nominated sequel, Top Gun: Maverick which took home one Oscar at the 2023 award season. Despite it all, it is the Mission Impossible franchise that becomes his crowning achievement.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One follows Ethan Hunt and his team of spies as they race against all odds to save humanity from a terrifying new weapon. Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, and Vanessa Kirby will reprise their roles from the former Mission Impossible films while Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff, and Esai Morales join the cast in the franchise’s penultimate installment.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One premieres on 12 July 2023.
Source: Rotten Tomatoes
