Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One.There’s a scene in the first act of Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One that continues to astound me, even days after I saw it.
In it, a national security task force has been assembled to assess the threat of The Entity, the all-seeing AI villain that Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt’s been tasked with taking down.
But it’s not the conversation that blows my mind — rather, watching the scene unfold, as the camera reveals one massive cameo after the other.
Flashing on the screen in the span of two minutes are the faces of Mark Gatiss, Indira Varma, Rob Delaney, Charles Parnell (reteaming with Cruise after Top Gun: Maverick), and finally, Cary Elwes.
A veritable cornucopia of experienced, immensely talented actors, each one a bigger shock than the last as they appear on screen.
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