Let's face it, you kind of hate yourself for liking "Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One." First of all, it's two hours and forty three minutes. You could have flown to Miami or something. Second, following "Top Gun Maverick," it's another Tom Cruise extravaganza that will be a huge crowd pleaser. Even an aging Tom Cruise still has the charm he exuded in "Risky Business" and that was 40 years ago.

Some of "DR Part One" is a little hard to follow, but don't worry about that. That part involves something called The Entity, which I think is like The Borg from "Star Trek." It's AI, or an algorithm. Charlie Brown once asked Linus what he did when he got to the long Russian names while reading "Dostoevsky." Linus replied, "I just skip over them." That's what I did with The Entity. (Luckily there's mustache twirling human villain, too, in the form of Esai Morales.)