![]() ![]() What’s so special about this key? Somehow, the AI needs it and one estimate of its worth is $100 million, which seems pretty cheap, to be honest. It soon gets swiped, pickpocketed and seized, jumping from owner to owner like an unwanted Secret Santa office gift. The key here is sought by Cruise, our thief/love interest, a US Special Operations team, Morales’ nasty Gabriel and the arms dealer The White Widow. “Dead Reckoning,” as the “Part One” in the full title suggests, is another action franchise going epic with several-part arcs - like “Spider-Verse” and “Fast & Furious” already this year - and uses a two-part special key as the plot device that everyone desperately needs, like in “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.” ![]() ![]() It’s “an enemy that is everywhere and nowhere.” The filmmakers aren’t too keen in giving too many specifics, leaving it an existential threat and giving it the very non-threatening nickname, The Entity. This AI can foul up every digital device with “the power to bring the world to its knees” - or at least to a pre-internet, analog state. The bad guy isn’t a guy this time, it’s a haywire form of conscious artificial intelligence that has infiltrated every nation’s computer systems and represents a Hollywood fever dream of this emerging technology. (If that makes too many love interests, you’d be right.) Hayley Atwell also makes her impressive debut, playing a master thief and possible romantic partner for Cruise’s Ethan Hunt. Newcomers include Esai Morales as a very bad baddie and Pom Klementieff as his psychotic aide. “This is getting exciting,” one character says early on and you’ll heartily agree.Ĭhristopher McQuarrie returns for the third time as director of the spy series - he also helped write Cruise’s “Top Gun: Maverick” - and he’s brought back love interest/spy Rebecca Ferguson, comic relief buddies Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames, Vanessa Kirby as The White Widow and Henry Czerny as slimy Eugene Kittridge. It’s got plenty of facemasks being ripped off, a car chase through Rome, a shoot-out in the desert, a sword fight on a bridge and an intense, runaway train sequence that may top anything the franchise has ever produced. If you do give in, you’re in for a treat - a heart-pounding, never dragging, mission accomplished that takes audiences from the frozen Bering Sea to the rooftop of Abu Dhabi International Airport and the narrow alleyways of Venice. The least you can do to repay him is watch his movie, right? On the first day cameras were rolling for “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One,” Cruise drove a motorcycle off an actual 4,000-foot Norwegian cliff and then parachuted down. A girl's gotta have options.Wondering if you should choose to accept the latest “Mission: Impossible” entry? Maybe you’re sick of all the bombast at the movie theater lately? Well, put it another way: Do you really want to disappoint Tom Cruise? Finally, there's a second Paradise Island outfit, which Carter wore in at the beginning of the second season during a recap of her origin story - this one was more like a white one-piece swimsuit with a diaphanous skirt. At another point in the series, she wears what might be called a "formal" outfit, which includes a blue skirt and a red, white and blue cape. In a few episodes, she wears a full-length blue spandex body suit, which is either a wetsuit (when she's swimming, duh) or a motorcross outfit (when she's wearing a helmet and riding a bike) - but it's the same garment in either situation. In the episode "The Bushwhackers," Wonder Woman gets what's called the "western" outfit, which involves a red top and white riding pants. To go out into this brave new world, Wonder Woman is given a red, white, blue and gold outfit that is essentially the costume she wears 95% of the time for the rest of the series (although in the series pilot she wears a short skirt instead of hot pants - minor detail). This first outfit is the athletic garb she and the other Amazons of Paradise Island wear for the contest that will determine who takes wayward pilot Steve Trevor back to the civilization of men and women. When we first meet Carter's Wonder Woman, for example, in the TV movie The New Original Wonder Woman (which was retroactively designated the series pilot), she's wearing a white form-fitting minidress and a Lone Ranger-style domino mask. We all know the costume Lynda Carter wore as Wonder Woman - the star-spangled shorts, the golden eagle bustier, how could anyone forget? Yet on the TV show, which ran from 1975-79, she actually wore several other getups depending on the situation. ![]()
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