'Mission: Impossible -- Dead Reckoning Part One' review: Tom Cruise accomplishes the first half of his mission
After his save-the-movie-business heroics with “Top Gun: Maverick,” saving the world seems like a relatively simple task for Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.” Happily, he has some splendid help this time around, in that rare 2023 summer movie that has the scope and heft – with a timely AI threat – to support its “To be continued” framework.