Why Dead Reckoning is the most uncannily topical Mission: Impossible film yet

With its malevolent AI and doomed submarine, the franchise's latest instalment hits some very real-world buttons. Can it still pull a Top Gun: Maverick and save the summer's box office?

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Stuart Heritage on the Tom Cruisiest movie ever made

Tom Cruise's new film, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, sees the world's most bankable film star take on his most topical villain yet: AI.

In the movie's opening scene, a Russian nuclear submarine meets a grim fate - another incidence of uncanny timing, given the Titan submersible tragedy last month (meanwhile, the name of the vessel is Sebastopol).