With a relatively flimsy plot featuring a series of nostalgic montages from the previous films, and serving as a second half, of sorts, to the 2023 instalment Dead Reckoning, the film is held together almost entirely by its set pieces and stunts. Cruise reprises his role as Ethan Hunt and reunites with his trusty team – Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames and Hayley Atwell among them – to defeat the insidious AI, known as “The Entity”, bent on world domination. But despite the baddie being a clear metaphor for the worrying trend of AI-created art, ultimately we find ourselves waiting until we get to see Cruise jumping from a great height again. And those heights truly were great: during filming, in a bid to outdo himself, Cruise passed out from lack of oxygen while clinging to the side of a Boeing.
Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie on the set of ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ (Photo: Paramount Pictures and Skydance via AP)
Director Christopher McQuarrie recently told Empire that he “wants to puke thinking about the stress” of filming with Cruise, who, for example, jumps out of a plane with no parachute, filming himself as he goes – just one of the stunt sequences in the film that he wanted to shoot multiple times to satisfy his perfectionism. This caused McQuarrie to finally, queasily, insist the A-lister call it quits at the 20th take.
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Of course, it’s not the only example of Cruise taking it upon himself to singlehandedly rescue the art of film. As a capital-M, capital-S Movie Star, he also has a seemingly tireless devotion to getting films screened in actual cinemas – fighting the tidal wave of “content” to be listlessly half-watched while simultaneously scrolling through TikTok. “Seeing a movie on the big screens can change lives… The cultural impact of movie theaters can’t be matched,” he said at CinemaCon this year.
Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ (Photo: Scott Garfield/Paramount)Ultimately, it’s all part of the action hero persona – just like his character Ethan Hunt, Cruise just wants to save the world as he knows it. For him, that world is all about the magic of cinema. But he’s savvy, too – he knows that if you want people to turn up, you’d better give them something to turn up for.
‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ is in cinemas from 23 May. Cannes film festival runs from 13-24 May
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