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Did Tom Cruise Kill the Internet in the New Mission: Impossible or What?
And can he do it in the real world, too?
When Mission: Impossible began, and Cruise had not yet completed his transformation into a celluloid being whose veins flowed with red carpets, his character, Ethan Hunt, had more modest concerns, like finding moles in the IMF and protecting the identities of undercover CIA agents. 30 years on, with the series coming to a close, mere terrorists just aren’t worthy foes for the patron saint of action cinema — he has to battle for no less than the survival of the human race against a malevolent, all-powerful artificial intelligence. The Mission: Impossible movies, for all that they’re as reliant on digital effects as every major production, are also testaments to the power of the physical world — to shooting on location around the globe, to doing the actual stunts, to Cruise himself riding a motorcycle off a cliff so that cameras capture his cheeks flapping in the wind.
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