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The Final Reckoning Is Closure for Tom Cruise’s Infamous Couch Jump
The new Mission: Impossible hits theaters 20 years to the day since Cruise jumped on Oprah’s couch. And it dares to show him crazy in love again.
That movie — remarkably restrained in retrospect, given the Burj Khalifa heights this series would eventually reach — hangs over Final Reckoning, which ties up the 1996’s film’s loose ends by letting Ethan apologize to William Donloe (Rolf Saxon), the CIA agent he inadvertently screwed over, and get his knife back. At the time, Cruise’s love story with Katie Holmes felt inextricably linked to the third Mission: Impossible film, which saw Ethan Hunt getting hitched to Julia, played by Michelle Monaghan. In the fourth film, Ghost Protocol, Ethan has opted for a life of bachelorhood to keep Julia safe, and whatever chemistry he has with subsequent sidekicks Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) and Grace (Hayley Atwell) never becomes overtly romantic.
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