Ever since Christopher McQuarrie took over writing and directing the “Mission: Impossible” franchise, you will oftentimes see characters confronted with a problem that needs solving, and they will deliver a line like, “I’m working on it” or “I’ll figure it out.” One of my favorite instances of this is in “Fallout” after the exceptional bathroom fight scene.
Rebecca Ferguson’s Ilsa says to Tom Cruise’s Ethan, “You don’t understand what you’re involved in,” and he responds with, “I don’t understand what I’m involved in? I don’t understand what I’m involved in? (long pause) What am I involved in?”Ethan Hunt and his fellow I.M.F.
agents are also problem-solving in real time.
They never have all the information, never have all the context, and never have a foolproof plan.
Stuff is always going wrong, be it technology failing or someone double-crossing them.
All of those spectacular Tom Cruise…
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