Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One trailer released; fans think it looks like Pathaan

Tom Cruise is back in action for another mission as IMF (Impossible Mission Force) agent Ethan Hunt, in the first trailer of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, which released yesterday. We can see Cruise still pushing himself to deliver some crazy stunts, and some fans on Twitter found similarities between MI’s latest franchise and Bollywood film Pathaan, which released recently. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is scheduled to release in theatres on July 12th globally.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One trailer 

The official trailer for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One runs for two and a half minutes and it’s full of action scenes as expected. It begins with Cruise (Ethan) riding a bike and stopping at the edge of the cliff followed by different scenes of Ethan and his IMF team going on their most dangerous mission yet. We can see Ethan actually jumping off the cliff and getting engaged in a fight on top of a train. 

Interestingly, the Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One trailer is trending for another reason and that is netizens claiming that some scenes were copied from Shah Rukh Khan’s movie Pathaan. The scenes in particular are the one where Cruise is seen hanging off a cliff, and the other is a train crashing. Fans have done side-by-side comparisons of the scenes with Pathaan. 

But amid the uproar there were more netizens who dug up the timelines of when the scenes were shot to prove that Mission: Impossible was already filmed before Pathaan. 

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One plot

This is the most dangerous mission yet for Ethan and his IMF team as they have to track down a new weapon that is a major threat to humanity. The mission is to get hold of the weapon before it falls into the wrong hands. In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan also has to face enemies from his past and he then goes on a “deathly race around the globe.” Ethan will have to confront a “mysterious, all-powerful enemy”, and he’s even pushed to the point that he has to put the mission before the lives of his loved ones. 

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One cast

Hayley Atwell plays the role of Grace who is described as a “destructive force of nature”. The primary antagonist in the movie is Gabriel who is played by Esai Morales. Then there’s Ving Rhames played by Luther Stickell who is an IMF computer technician and also Ethan’s best friend. Benji Dunn who is an IMF technical field agent is played by Simon Pegg. 

Rebecca Ferguson is back as Ilsa Faust, a former MI6 agent whom we saw in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and Mission: Impossible – Fallout. The movie also features Alanna Mitsopolis aka “White Widow” who is a black-market arms dealer and daughter of Max, who was also an arms dealer in the first film.