The movies series that has superstar Tom Cruise at the very centre reaches its 7th edition with Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1 which has been given a 12A age rating in the UK for moderate violence, threat.

Starring the ever popular Tom Cruise who starred in last years biggest movie Top Gun Maverick he has also starred in The Outsiders and The Color of Money, the movie also stars Rebecca Ferguson who has been in The Vatican and Dune~2020.

The movie is directed by long time Cruise colaborator Christopher McQuarrie who has previously directed Jack Reacher and The Way of the Gun.

Movie Synopsis

Ethan Hunt and the IMF team must track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity if it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than the mission -- not even the lives of those he cares about most.

BBFC certificate breakdown.

• Title: Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1
• BBFC age rating: 12A Certificate
• Reason: moderate violence, threat
• Release date: 14th July 2023
• Runtime: 163 minutes (2 hour 43 minutes)
• The movie is being released into movie theatres
• Directed by:
  • Christopher McQuarrie
• Starring:
  • Tom Cruise
  • Rebecca Ferguson
  • Pom Klementieff

BBFC movie page

It's been announced that after 22 years a sequel to the 1987 smash hit film Wall Street is to be made, is this good news, a sequel to a landmark film? It may be a case of dragging up the old and trying to breath new life into them like many of the atrocious remakes of '80's horror films that seems to be the fashion at the moment, but the good news here is that not only is Michael Douglas back as the money obsessed ruthless Gordon Gekko but Oliver Stone is back to write ad direct.

What will be interesting, and with Stone behind the script it's highly likely, will be the contrasts the new film will have with it's predecessor, the '80's was an age of richness and greed and when ruthless men on Wall Street didn't take lunch because they were too busy making money.

The naughties (2000 - 2009) have been an age when Wall Street in particular has been struck by tragedy that has changed peoples attitudes and the world is in the midst of a recession that in particular has his the financial industry, what a difference 20 years makes.

Douglas of course won the Oscar for his his lead in the original, if they can pull off a similar fate to that of The Color of Money for Paul Newman he may just do it again, lets just hope the title is not Wall Street 2!