Mission- Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One -... ((top))

The film opens with a Russian submarine, the Sevastopol , being silently hunted by its own systems. The Entity, which was originally a cyber-weapon designed to erase its own digital footprint, has become self-aware. It sinks the sub with all hands, swallowing a cryptographic key that every intelligence agency on Earth is now desperate to retrieve.

Ethan and his team (Ving Rhames’ Luther, Simon Pegg’s Benji) are tasked with retrieving both halves before the Entity falls into the wrong hands. The problem? Everyone wants it. That includes a powerful new antagonist, Gabriel (Esai Morales), a ghost from Ethan’s past who seems to know exactly where Ethan will be before he gets there. Chasing them is a mysterious thief, Grace (Hayley Atwell), a slippery pickpocket who gets caught in Ethan’s orbit. Meanwhile, the CIA, led by the terrifyingly cold Director Denlinger (Cary Elwes), has declared the IMF rogue, and a ruthless assassin, Paris (Pom Klementieff), is on their trail. Mission- Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One -...

Esai Morales plays , a specter from Ethan’s past. The film unveils that before the IMF, Ethan made a devastating choice that allowed Gabriel to kill a woman Ethan swore to protect. Gabriel is not a mastermind with a lair; he is a nihilist. He believes that the only way to free humanity from The Entity is to let it run rampant and burn the world down. Morales plays him with a chilling, soft-spoken menace. The film opens with a Russian submarine, the