Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) on Netflix
NR20232h 44mActionAdventureThriller
A Russian submarine's new defense system tricks its crew into firing on themselves in the Bering Sea, and the AI vanishes into cyberspace. Ethan Hunt hunts the key that can control it.
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- Rotten Tomatoes96%
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Plot summary
World powers compete for a two-piece cruciform key that can control the Entity, an artificial intelligence that slipped into cyberspace after the Russian submarine Sevastopol was lost in the Bering Sea. Ethan Hunt takes one piece of the key from Ilsa Faust, a disavowed MI6 agent, in the Arabian Desert, and arranges for her to be thought dead, out of reach of a bounty. He interrupts a Washington briefing where the CIA's Eugene Kittridge explains that the Entity can reach into defense and financial networks through cyberspace, and forces him to admit he set the bounty. Ethan means to destroy the Entity, and with Benji Dunn and Luther Stickell he heads to Abu Dhabi International Airport for the second piece of the key.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Nicholas Hoult was originally cast as the villain, but scheduling conflicts brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic saw Esai Morales replace him in May 2020. McQuarrie realized only then that Morales and Cruise being about the same age opened up story possibilities tying the villain to Ethan Hunt's backstory, and the concept of "The Entity" came after Hoult's departure.
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McQuarrie chose to have Ilsa Faust die in the film while working on Maverick with Cruise, which he had co-written. He felt the decision would show the "stakes have to be real", describing Ilsa and Ethan's relationship as "doomed to be together and yet doomed never to be together".- A large fire broke out on a motorcycle stunt rig in Oxfordshire. The scene had taken six weeks to prepare and was "among one of the most expensive ever filmed in the U.K." No one was hurt in the incident.
- In December 2020, during filming in London, an audio recording leaked of Cruise shouting at two crew members for not following COVID-19 protocols on set. He was likened to his Tropic Thunder character Les Grossman, though the public and many celebrities were supportive.
- Paramount received a total of £57 million ($71 million) in COVID-19 insurance payouts related to the film from the Swiss insurer Chubb.
