She has a keen eye for detail, but might be missing some obvious problems going on at home. She’s optimistic, but it’s tinged with the world-weariness that years of social work would inflict on a person. One of a group of probationary officers the series tracks over the six episodes of the first season, Grace is a clear standout not only because she’s the main character but because Brooke imbues her with such specific humanity. In Blue Lights, a cop drama about frontline policing set in Belfast, she plays Constable Grace Ellis, a former social worker who radiates empathy from every pore, working in a bureaucracy (and with many colleagues) that have excised it almost entirely from the policing process in favour of procedure. She’s incredible, one of those generationally talented actresses that the UK seems to be absolutely lousy with. I first discovered Siân Brooke when she popped up on the fourth season of Sherlock. If I was green I would die, if I was green I would die, if I was green… But allowing Hayley Atwell to go full movie star - and for the welcome lean into comedy - Dead Reckoning P1 one goes very close to matching it. The connective tissue between those scenes might be a bit lacking this time around and aside from Philip Seymour Hoffman, the M:I movies have always had a villain problem - Fallout is still this series’ peak. Then they give us the airport sequence, the comedy car chase, the back alley/bridge fight and the closing sequence. Silly names aside, I remember watching the opening sequence of M:I: DR - P1 (good Lord) marvelling at how director Christopher McQuarrie, the unsung hero of action filmmaking, managed to craft a downright thrilling set piece despite the fact we don’t know any of the characters or even much of the context, and yet this movie hits its opening credits with a momentum few other films can match. I hold this opinion despite the characters in Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One of Two Section A Paragraph 3 referring to the film’s villainous artificial intelligence as ‘The Entity’ so often that the word soon lost all meaning.
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