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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART ONE | Cert 12A | In cinemas now

- DENIS MANN

Tom Cruise has turned the action movie into an art form with the best Mission: Impossible film ever. The perfectly choreographed fight scenes, stunts and chases are like ballet for the masses.

Cruise is the Nureyev of the blockbuster without the tights. He’s got all the moves.

He dances through an escapist epic of the highest order, so dazzlingly thrilling that you spend large parts of the two hour 43 minute running time holding your breath.

One day, MI7 will be massively enjoyable on your telly at home, but I beg you to watch in a cinema with a decent sound system. This film’s natural home is at the flicks. It’s so very, very BIG.

Cruise has never been better and that’s saying something considering he’s 61. We should be throwing flowers at his feet.