The seventh instalment of the Mission: Impossible franchise sees Tom Cruise’s super-spy Ethan Hunt face his most dangerous enemy yet: A.I. This ‘godless, stateless, amoral’ foe is ‘everywhere and nowhere’, having infiltrated the Federal Reserve, the stock market, the national power grid, the world banks, the military, and the intelligence network. It’s variously described as ‘a ghost in the machine’, ‘digital chaos’, a ‘worm’, and a ‘self-aware, self-learning, truth-eating digital parasite’. Or, as Simon Pegg’s technician-turned-field agent Benji Dunn puts it, ‘Monday.’
