For Tom Cruise, Mission: Impossible is as much about moviemaking as it is about spectacle
From De Palma’s series launcher on, Cruise has used the tales of Ethan Hunt to ponder the nature of cinema as performance, perception, and manipuation.
From De Palma’s series launcher on, Cruise has used the tales of Ethan Hunt to ponder the nature of cinema as performance, perception, and manipuation.
Despite a script bogged down by the extended set-up of its villain, Tom Cruise and company remain unmatched thrillmasters.
Five years after its box office failure, a look back at what went wrong for Cruise’s ambitious sci-fi action film and how the narrative has changed.