For "Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One," Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie wanted to play with trains. The result: one of the most spectacular set pieces in years.
The film is the seventh installment of a decades-old franchise based on a 1960s television program, and surprisingly, it’s very good. Critic Sean Burns says, “This may not be sophisticated art, but it’s serious artistry.”
"Tom [Cruise] said, I want to drive a motorcycle off a cliff. And I said, OK, I wanna wreck a train, " says "Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One"
Director Christopher McQuarrie reveals that he considered using the de-ageing process to make Ethan Hunt look youthful in the flashbacks scenes and a cold open, but he finds it distracting.