As much as 2022 was the year of Everything Everywhere All At Once, it was also the year in which Tom Cruise reminded all of us why he’s probably the last true-blue movie star, following Will Smith’s DQ in the aftermath of Smith/Rock I (we’re betting cash money on Rock in the rematch). Here’s proof of this: We’re still listening to “Danger Zone” a full year after Top Gun: Maverick blew our minds left and right. But Cruise himself never coasts on cruise control, and so he’s back with a brand-new Mission: Impossible movie, which is subtitled Dead Reckoning Part One, which is perhaps the worst title any of these movies has had. Who cares about that shit, though, when you can see stunts so insane that they practically sell themselves? And why even release a trailer, as Paramount did on Wednesday morning, when you just know you’re gonna go anyway to see Tom Cruise nearly die for your entertainment?
Take a look:
Here’s a synopsis:
“In ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,’ Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan’s past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission – not even the lives of those he cares about most.”
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (again, that title is just awful) will sky-dive into a theater near you on July 12. All we gotta say is that we trust in Tom, and we’re betting some cash money that this movie will, at the very least, kick some serious ass.