What Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Teaches Us About Agency

Dead Reckoning is the seventh instalment in the Mission: Impossible franchise, directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise as IMF agent Ethan Hunt. Released in 2023, the film raised the stakes from nuclear threats to a predictive AI known as the Entity. It reframes Ethan not as a superspy, but as a man fighting for freedom in a world that anticipates his every move.