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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning (Part One), the interminably named latest entry in the M:I franchise, now available on streaming. They discuss the metaphor of dead reckoning and how it applies to the characters in the film, and lament that the evil A.I. is really underdeveloped as a character.


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<h2>Further Reading</h2>
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<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_reckoning">Dead Reckoning</a> (Wikipedia)</li>
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