
In a summer movie season that has seen the unlikely pairing of
Oppenheimer and
Barbie dominate the box office, two surefire franchises have found it a bit more difficult than anticipated to generate sales. While
Oppenheimer and
Barbie have both faired well with critics and audiences, Christopher McQuarrie’s (
The Way of the Gun, Jack Reacher)
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One has scored just as well, but whose box office revenue may have been slighted due to the
Oppenheimer/
Barbie dual release date two weeks after. It may have made the
Mission Impossible franchise’s seventh movie out of sight, out of mind a little too quickly.
Dead Reckoning Part One is a film that should be seen in the theater, which many will agree with. Saying that it is better than
Oppenheimer and
Barbie is an unpopular opinion but one that I believe to be true. The novelty of
Oppenheimer and
Barbie is undoubtedly an allure over the seventh installment of a franchise and is something I do understand and appreciate. However, as a whole, I found
Dead Reckoning Part One to be far more entertaining and better executed.
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