Mission Impossible 7

So MI jumps on the A.I bandwagon. It was going to come around sooner or later. A.I is everywhere nowadays and it's going to take over all our jobs, it might even be writing this review (it's not). This time Hunt and his crew have to chase down the ‘Key’. What  the key does is as confusing as to what the rabbits foot did in M.I 3.(still the M.I with the best villain R.I.P  Phillip Seymour Hoffman)

The A.I can control the world and cause worldwide devastation, but for some reason it needs the key to work. It’s like having a Tesla but you need to put 50p in it every time you need to go anywhere.

Anyways Ethan’s mission, which is delivered by a pizza boy this time, is to find the other part of the key or maybe he needs the second key. But whatever it is he is going to have to find it. I miss when the missions were explained by Anthony Hopkins, I used to pay much more attention.

The movie begins with the evil A.I which is called The Entity, causing a Russian submarine to attack itself. Now  you have to remember this submarine because the next movie is going to be based around it, as this super powerful A.I is stuck in a black box. 

IIsa Faust, the only woman to survive more than two M.I movies ( don’t worry she’s maxed out now), has a key piece and Ethan has to travel to the desert to get it off her. Cue a similar scene to the previous movie where Ethan was surprised to see that IIsa had made it into another movie. 

Next a high level meeting of several familiar actors, who all complete each other’s sentences, is taking place. None of these people seem to have been in the same room when filming their lines as this whole scene is off.

Of course Ethan has been there all along wearing his one of now obligatory masks. He is going to get the rabbit's foot, sorry I mean the key and destroy the A.I, so none,  not even the USA can get its hand on it. 

The usual team travels to an airport. Benji gets to do something ( disarm a fake bomb) but Ethan is distracted by Gabrielle, who Ethan knew from the past.  They had to go way back into the past to insert this character because he hasn’t been in any of the other M.I movies,  but apparently he was a major part of Ethan’s life sometime. 

Here we are also introduced to Grace, played by Hayley Atwell. Ethan’s love interest in this movie. Grace is rather annoying. Knowing full well she is safe with Ethan she will run off at every opportunity and put herself in danger.  The worst parts are when she gets saved by Ethan, runs off,  gets into even more danger, gets saved and runs off again. 

Anyway the team travels to Rome, then Venice chasing after Grace who pickpockets the key from Ethan. Queue  car chase scenes and running from agents across beautiful cities, oh IIsa shows up again which is nice. 

They finally attend a meeting held in an underground disco, held by Alanna Mitsopolis, another woman who managed to make it from the previous movie, confusing Ethan to no end.

Alanna, if you remember ( you won’t), was an arms dealer, and has, guess what, the other half of the key, hallelujah.

Gabriel, Ethan’s fake ex best friend, proceeds to expose what the Entity does and how it can predict the future,  in fact it predicted all this happening. He also informs everybody that he works for the Entity and the Entity has told him he has to kill either IIsa or Grace in order to get the key. I wonder how it is like working for an A.I, does he get performance reviews? Does he get holidays and benefits?

Alanna is in fact the White Widow, and now she has two halves of the key she makes to get away in order to sell the completed key to the highest bidder. The transaction is due to take place on the Orient Express. You see,  this is where the problem occurs. If she said, meet me up at the local Aldi  I’m sure she wouldn’t have a problem with the exchange,  no she had to go all fancy and choose a luxurious location.

Grace runs off again, and Gabriel is about to kill her,  but IIsa comes and saves her this time and gets killed herself, because she’s been in too many of the M.I movies now.

Ethan meanwhile was having one of the more brutal fight scenes in a M.I movie you will see with Paris. Paris is mental, but Ethan still chooses to save her. So now  you definitely know she will turn up at the end when you least expect it and save his life somehow.

Grace finally decides to stop running and join the team, guilty of having been the cause of IIsa's death, if only if she had stayed put. She will somehow take the pace of Alanna and find out who she was selling the key to. Ethan will join her pretending to be Alannas brother by wearing a mask. Of course, as if on cue, the mask machine stops working. They should really quality control these things. Now Ethan has to do an over the top stunt in order to get on the train.  Like I said earlier, the corner of Aldi would have made everyone’s life much easier. 

The key changes hands several times, from the CIA director who was the original buyer of the key, to Grace who pickpockets it back, then to Gabriel  who leaves the train thinking he is finally in possession of the key. Thinking he had won Gabriel explodes the bridge the train is heading to. Gabriel doesn’t have the key though,  as Ethan took it off him during the fight on the train. These people really need to check their pockets before leaving the premises. 

The train is heading for disaster  and we are all supposed to fear for our heroes, but we know there’s a part two to this movie. Also remember Paris, yes here she comes to save Ethan and Grace, also explaining to them and us what needs to happen in the next movie. 

So that’s the end of part one. The action  scenes are amazing, and Tom Cruise is excellent as Ethan. Hayley Atwell doesn’t quite fit though, and the movie is lacking some gravitas from the last movie. Angela Bassett, Henry Cavill and even Alec Baldwin added more to the last movie and this is missing that something. I look forward to part 2, and how Tom Cruise tries to kill himself underwater.