Dead Reckoning...More Like Dead on Arrival
"You can't kill me yet, there's a Part Two!" Foresight My Favorite Franchise Let Me Down Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (2023) Baggage Tags: Opening Day, "Lie"MAX, Movie Posters as Spoilers The hype was real for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning. This was the movie event of 2023 for me — I even assembled my own crew of I.M.F. agents (a.k.a. friends) to see it opening day, at the biggest screen in Seattle: the Boeing IMAX Theater at the Pacific Science Center. I picked this theater because, unlike the city's many "Lie"MAX screens (looking at you, Regal Thornton Place), the Boeing shows true IMAX footage in its full 1.43:1 glory. LieMAX theaters project in a 1.90:1 ratio — about 22% smaller — and usually with lower 2K resolution, while true IMAX uses crisp 4K. But alas, I was duped. Dead Reckoning was marketed with the phrase "Experience it in IMAX," which really just means: “Pay more, get less.” I didn't realize unt...