Mission Impossible 7 – Dead Reckoning Part One directed by Christopher McQuarrie (USA, 2023)
In MI7, multiple MacGuffins are imbedded within 163 minutes of action-packed nonsense which is designed to keep even the most severe ADHD sufferer fully engaged.
Its elaborate and deliberately confusing plot taps into two modern day fears : 1. That one day soon AI will come to dominate the world and, 2. That one day soon you won’t just misplace your house keys but lose them for good.
The mission for Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) should he decide to accept it (when has he not?) is to retrieve one part of two-piece cruciform key that looks like it might unlock a papal vault in Vatican City but which, when united with its other half, will allegedly enable access to world dominance. [Spoiler alert : you have to take preposterous premises of this kind of on trust].
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One of the characters in Sir Kazuo Ishiguro’s eighth novel says “It’s not faith you need. Only rationality.” Yet, while never undermining the importance of pure science, Ishiguro is primarily concerned with how humanity and machines can co-exist healthily.
