Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’s Rotten Tomatoes score breaks major records for the long-running franchise and Tom Cruise’s career.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’s record-breaking Rotten Tomatoes score has been revealed. In the first half of a two-part event, Tom Cruise returns for his seventh and most dangerous mission yet as the IMF agent Ethan Hunt, a role he’s been playing since 1996’s Mission: Impossible. The new movie, which was delayed multiple times due to the pandemic, includes some of the wildest stunts ever attempted on screen, including Cruise’s motorcycle cliff jump and an epic wreck train sequence.
Now, as reviews have been pouring in for the past few days, the movie’s Rotten Tomatoes score has been revealed ahead of the Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One release date on July 12. Though it may still fluctuate slightly, the score seems to have solidified at a near-perfect 99% with over 130 reviews published at the time of writing. This does not only break a record for the long-running action franchise, but is the highest score in Tom Cruise’s entire career.
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The stellar Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One reviews have not only resulted in the best Rotten Tomatoes score for the franchise which spans seven installments dating back to 1996, but the best score for Cruise’s entire career which began in the early 1980s and includes over 45 movies. Within the Mission: Impossible series, Dead Reckoning Part One has beaten out the previous installment, 2018’s Fallout (97%), for the franchise-best Rotten Tomatoes score. Though many of the reviews say the seventh movie isn’t as quite dynamic as Fallout, its Rotten Tomatoes score has been able to surpass it.
Outside the action franchise, Dead Reckoning Part One’s Rotten Tomatoes score has also surpassed 2022’s Top Gun: Maverick (96%), the 1983 classic Risky Business (92%), Edge of Tomorrow (91%), and Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report (90%). Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One even beats out Cruise’s critically-acclaimed movies he made before becoming the world’s biggest action star – including Rain Man (89%), The Color of Money (88%), Born on the Fourth of July (85%), A Few Good Men (84%), Jerry Maguire (84%), and Magnolia (82%) – many of which received nominations for Best Picture and earned Cruise Oscar nods for his performance.