Thinking about Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning: Part 1, and the more I think about certain details the more plausible one particular theory looks.
We know that the submarine sunk on February 29, so it was on a leap year. We also see during the intelligence meeting (that takes place a year or two later) that there is a portrait of Erica Sloane on the wall, and it seems like she is now President. As we know, US presidential elections take place on leap years, so she must have been elected on the same year as the sinking of the submarine. Quite a leap from head of the CIA to President...
It is also mentioned at that same meeting that the Entity meddled with the social media a lot, which went along with their interest.
So that brings the question: did the Entity have something to do with Sloane becoming President? Intervening in the elections through at least social media manipulations maybe?
im anticipating some benji whump/or worse in dead reckoning part two because
1) dead reckoning p1 ends with benji and ethan alone, which means potential bonding scenes as they meet up with grace and/or luther, (said this in my last hypothesis hoping for benthan scenes) but unfortunately, something needs to counter the bonding scenes. cant build up a relationship without emotional payoff by putting it in jeopardy!
or 2), kittrage's overlay-ed monologue at the end of dead reckoning may be foreshadowing. when he says "The closer someone gets to you, the harder it is to keep them alive", Benji is on screen looking at Ethan
also i totally think they didnt utilise all possibilities for how horrifying the entity could be. if its set in modern time, why is there not like. vr stuff. projections. illusions etc. maybe they will show that off in the next movie. but how? tormenting someone. who? but maybe they wont...
#MissionImpossible — Dead Reckoning Part I (2023), nominated for 2 #Oscars (Sound and Visual Effect), VOD (run time 2:46) in platforms like #AppleTvPlus, focuses on #EthanHunt (#TomCruise) and his IMF (Impossible Missions Force) tasked to track down a terrifying new weapon (a self-aware and deadly #artificialintelligence known as “The Entity”) that threatens all of humanity if it falls into the wrong hands.
I will tag this as spoilers but finding it interesting that so many people are saying that they're not going to watch part 2 of dead reckoning, saying it's a bad film when we're literally watching half a story? It's part 1 of 2! There's gonna be stuff that doesn't feel accomplished or satisfying because we haven't seen part 2! Have some faith