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Where Does Tom Cruise Go From Here?
Mission: Impossible might be over. What the actor does next could have enormous consequences — for him and for Hollywood.
No, our favorite unkillable, rogue IMF agent and living manifestation of destiny doesn’t die in Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, but the unsettled feeling we get throughout the picture regarding his fate isn’t entirely unwarranted. In the past decade-plus, the only genuinely original non-action picture on Cruise’s résumé is the underseen American Made, a wonderfully cynical drama about a pilot caught up in the CIA’s illegal drug- and gun-running operations into Latin America in the 1980s that sometimes plays like a gritty through-the-looking-glass riff on Top Gun. He also exercised a startling degree of quality control over his material, often shaping his characters to reflect his onscreen persona and thematic obsessions (a process he reportedly started on the first Top Gun, which turned him into a megastar).
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