Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One | 2023 | PG-13 | – 3.5.5

Why is “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” rated PG-13? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “intense sequences of violence and action, some language and suggestive material.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a scene of partial nudity in a dance club, several flirting scenes, references to lost love, many scenes of dangerous activity including car chases, motorcycle chases, parachuting, as well as walking on the roofs of moving trains, many scenes of car chases and gunfire exchanges, a submarine crash with dead bodies shown, many fight scenes ending with injuries and deaths, several arguments, and at least 2 not fully enunciated F-words and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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The IMF team is back at work in order to track down and destroy a weapon that can cause global annihilation. With Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Frederick Schmidt, Mariela Garriga and Cary Elwes. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Several lines of dialogue are spoken in Russian, French and Italian with English subtitles. [Running Time: 2:43]

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One SEX/NUDITY 3

 – A man and a woman hug in a few scenes. A man and a woman hug and hold hands. A man chases a woman in an airport, stands very close to her and holds her around the waist. A woman caresses a man’s clothed chest and moves around him while talking. A woman flirts with a man in a few scenes. Two men search a woman for weapons: one man draws his hand across her clothed breasts, and then smacks her on the clothed buttocks.
► Men and women in a nightclub dance on pedestals and they appear to be nude; we see the men wearing thong underwear that covers only their genital areas (bare buttocks, chests, abdomens and legs are seen), and we see the women’s breasts, buttocks and abdomens (the breasts seem covered with sheer fabric; everything is heavily shadowed).

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One VIOLENCE/GORE 5

 – A woman with a sword fights a man on a bridge, she slashes him and draws blood, they continue to fight and she is stabbed in the chest, and then thrown down a flight of stairs where she lies dead (we see blood on the wound). A submarine crew implements a stealth system that makes them undetectable until another vessel is shown following them and firing torpedoes at them; they are struck by a torpedo and the vessel crashes to the seafloor; we see bodies float to the frozen surface. A man attacks another man using a shovel, and then pushes him off a speeding train (we see the body lying next to the tracks); the man attacks another man on the train and we see him hanging dead in several subsequent scenes. Two groups of people arrive at a crash scene and exchange gunfire as the woman in the crashed vehicle is helped out of the car by a man; several people are shot, blood spurts, they fall dead and the man and the woman speed away in a car. A flashback sequence is repeated several times, as a man shoots a woman and she dies (we see some blood splatter).
► Several armed people on horseback ride through desert terrain and a man hides behind a ridge with his horse; they ride toward a town as a sandstorm blows toward them and a woman takes aim and shoots several with a long rifle (they fall off their horses and blood spurts), gunfire is exchanged and we see the woman lying motionless on the floor until a man leans over her and she attacks him holding a knife to his head (no injuries are inflicted).
► A man slashes another man across the throat and he falls to the floor gasping (we see the bloody slash). A woman fights with a man and she is stabbed in the chest (we see some blood), and then she shoots at him through a door as he leaves. A woman with two knives attacks a man on a bridge and they fight until he throws her down a flight of stairs and she lies motionless. A woman fights a man in heavy shadows and shoots him (no blood is visible). A woman holds a gun on a man and we later see the man dead in a chair (no blood is visible). A man stabs another man in the hand with a letter opener; he screams and we see blood. A man presses a knife against another person’s neck (we see a spot of blood). An extended scene shows a man being trapped in a narrow passage between a man and a woman that he fights, they punch and kick, he slams their heads into walls and windows shattering glass, the woman stumbles against the wall and the man swings a pipe toward her head but hits the wall instead, leaving her alive. Two men fight on the top of a speeding train: they lie flat on the top as they speed through tunnels and under trellises and one man draws a large knife and slashes it toward the other man. A man jumps off a speeding train and lands in a truck bed on the road below.
► A man is held at gunpoint, he fights several men and he and a woman run through a dark nightclub, evading people chasing them. A woman is shot at as she runs through train cars and a man is told to kill her; he holds a gun on her (she is not shot). A man and a woman hide from people chasing them; the man is detained briefly and the woman runs away and steals a car, speeds through narrow streets crashing into things and nearly hitting people and the man steals a motorcycle and chases the woman in the car until she crashes head-on into another vehicle and is dazed. A man and woman in a car speed away from people searching for them, they are chased by a woman in an armored vehicle and they both crash into things along the way; the car crashes into a large collection of scooters and they tip over and the armored vehicle drives over them. A man and woman in a small car are pushed down a flight of stairs by a larger vehicle; people on the stairs scream and run and the car nearly crashes into a baby stroller, flips and rolls and the passengers are thrown around. A woman jumps onto the top of a speeding train as it passes, gets inside the train and knocks an attendant unconscious with a fire extinguisher.
► A bridge explodes as a train speeds toward it; a man and a woman disconnect two cars that fall off the crumbled bridge to a river far below, they struggle to get through the remaining cars as they are each pulled over the edge, nearly taking them with them as they fall one by one in an extended scene; one car contains the kitchen where there is boiling oil, as well as flames and spewing gas lines, and another car contains a piano that breaks free and nearly slams into the woman, and they nearly fall but are pulled up just as the car falls away. A man finds what is thought to be a nuclear explosive and panics about solving riddles to disarm it (it is disarmed before the clock counts down). People scream and run through a train when they are told there is an explosive as it speeds out of control toward a bridge.
► A man wearing a gas mask deploys smoke bombs in a room knocking out many people gathered there and they fall to the floor unconscious. A man turns to reveal his face and another man is alarmed that he looks like him; the first man shoots the second man with a tranquilizer dart. A woman is alarmed when she sees another woman that looks exactly like her; the second woman jabs her with a hypodermic needle and she falls unconscious. Many agents search for a man in an airport terminal, they approach and grab a couple of people and a man squeezes their faces and pulls on their skin (thinking they are wearing disguises). A man runs from others trying to catch him and we see him on the roof of an airport while they search inside. A woman is handcuffed and questioned by authorities. A woman carries a long sword and pulls it partially out of the sheath to threaten a man. A man tasers two other men and they fall to the floor twitching. A man wearing a wing suit is pulled off the top of a speeding train and the scene ends. A woman unlocks a large trunk where a man lies wearing a mask to breathe and he awakens and gets out of the trunk. An extended scene shows a man speeding in narrow roads on hilly terrain chasing a train and trying to jump on it as it speeds on the tracks; he speeds to a ledge and later speeds off the ledge letting the motorcycle fall and he deploys a parachute before crashing into the train through a window, and slamming into a person inside the train. A small car with a man and a woman handcuffed to each other rolls out of control through a passage and stops on train tracks as a train approaches; the woman unlocks her handcuff and leaves the man cuffed to the steering wheel as the train speeds toward him and crashes into the car (he gets out unharmed).
► A man orders a group of soldiers to find a man and “drive a wooden stake through his open heart.” A man is reprimanded for his “rogue behavior.” Two men exchange code lingo when one delivers a package to the other. Men talk about there being a bug in the system and a ghost in the machine when a specialized system appears to have failed. A man talks about a man and “all the women he uses.”
► A recording device self-destructs in a few scenes and we see some smoke. A nightclub scene includes flashing, strobing lights.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One LANGUAGE 5

 – At least 2 not fully enunciated F-words, 6 mild obscenities, name-calling (phantom, pickpocket, putpocket, bastard, thief, orphan, fanatic, old think, the white widow, circus freaks), exclamations (no kidding, Bob’s your uncle, wow, oh man), 5 religious profanities (GD), 3 religious exclamations (e.g. Godless, oh my God, thank God). | profanity glossary |

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One SUBSTANCE USE

 – People drink liquor and champagne in a nightclub scene, and people drink in a train bar car.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Friendship, treason, death of loved ones, sacrifice, choices, AI, control, global domination, power, trust, right and wrong, truth, British Intelligence, chaos.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One MESSAGE

 – Greed and longing for global domination can make people do irrational things.