Tag: Mission: Impossible
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10 Best Movies Like ‘Mission: Impossible’
With its exciting action, interesting espionage, and charismatic leading star, Tom Cruise, who is more than eager to jump from a building himself for the realism of the films, the Mission: Impossible franchise has captured audiences’ attention for decades. Moreover, in an action film industry that is constantly evolving, the franchise manages to reinvent itself…
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Christopher McQuarrie Explains The “Tough Decision” Of Killing A Key Character in ‘Dead Reckoning’
**Spoilers below for “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part 1.” You’ve been warned…**The threat of death is an underlying aspect of every ‘Mission: Impossible’ film. Honestly, that threat doesn’t just apply to the characters and their gunfights and elaborate car chases. The franchise’s star, Tom Cruise, regularly puts his own real life in danger in…
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‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ Missed This Opportunity With Ethan Hunt
Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part OneMission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is a movie with stakes higher than just worldwide destruction. Things go deeper for superspy protagonist Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) when he encounters a new kind of threat with a very familiar modus operandi. The…
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‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ Fumbled That Death Hard
How does a long-running action franchise keep raising the stakes? If one follows the Mission: Impossible rule book, it’s about stunt work. Previously, Tom Cruise climbed up the world’s tallest skyscraper and clung to the side of a plane taking flight. In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, he speeds off a cliff with…
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Christopher McQuarrie Convinced Studio To Keep Expensive ‘Mission Impossible’ Sub Scene & Then Feared He Had To Cut It
The adage of Hollywood and or pundits who closely follow Hollywood, writers, armchair analysts, etc., is that you should always have a plan and never just “make it up as you go.” Filmmaking is such a massive endeavor and a massively expensive endeavor, a plan to execute all the ambitious things you want to do…
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The Mission: Impossible Movies Need This Now More Than Ever
Mission: Impossible, a series following a covert agency dubbed the Impossible Mission Force, has encountered its own seemingly impossible mission: improving its villains. The Tom Cruise-led franchise peaked early on the antagonist front and has since seen a dearth of memorable, effective bad guys. That limitation has become the wildly imaginative series’ most consistent impediment.…
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Vanessa Kirby and Hayley Atwell Explain How ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning’ Pulled Off That Thrilling Mask Sequence
Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers from “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” now playing in theaters.The “Mission: Impossible” movies have no shortage of death-defying stunts, but the Tom Cruise-starring action franchise is known for another iconic magic trick: its mask reveals.“Dead Reckoning Part One” features two mask reveals — in the first, Cruise’s…
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‘Mission: Impossible 7’ blasts off with $235m global box office debut; ‘Elemental’ holds while ‘Indiana Jones 5’ slides
Excluding China, ’Dead Reckoning Part One’ has delivered the biggest international opening for the ‘Mission: Impossible’ franchise.Worldwide box office Jul 14-16 Rank Film (distributor) 3-day (world) Cume (world) 3-day (int’l) Cume (int’l) Territories 1. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (Paramount)$211.2m $235m $155m $155m 71 2. Never Say Never (various) $45.9m $207.6m $45.9m $207.6m…
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‘Dead Reckoning Part One’: Pom Klementieff Is More than an MCU Sidekick
Editor’s Note: The following contains full spoilers for ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One introduces plenty of new characters, but the best one may be the tenacious assassin Paris, expertly played by Pom Klementieff. If the name sounds familiar, Klementieff is undoubtedly best known for her role in…
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‘Nightmare Before Christmas’: 13-Foot Jack Skellington Comes to Home Depot
While moviegoers are in the heart of the summer enjoying the return of action franchises like Indiana Jones and Mission: Impossible, July marks the month when it’s socially acceptable to start celebrating Halloween. Well, that’s if you ask a die-hard horror fan at least. The best part leading up to the Halloween and Fall season…