A former spy tells us what Tom Cruise gets right and wrong in the “Mission: Impossible” franchise. - ThreadSky

nytimes.com • 4 days ago

A former spy tells us what Tom Cruise gets right and wrong in the “Mission: Impossible” franchise.

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Watching Dead Reckoning now. It’s amazing. Intensity and emotion that just builds. Sad that a slight box office underperformance caused the studio and director to think they needed to drastically change the sequel. Final Reckoning was only okay.

lady3janeashpool.bsky.social•3 days ago

Lol. Are you ok? Iike are you genuinely ok? No 'spies' former or current, give interviews about Tom Cruise movies.

🤡🤣

vintagemuckabout.bsky.social•4 days ago

Well considering nothing Ethan Hunt does outside of the first mission in MI1 is even remotely close to intelligence work.

dstan1.bsky.social•4 days ago

Spies don't do anything like MI movies. Spies convince others to spy for them. People inside other governments or corporations.

jordynjjones.bsky.social•4 days ago

Hmm 🤔

hannibal-chau.bsky.social•4 days ago

Um… all of it was wrong

byronm19.bsky.social•4 days ago

Wait a second … the Mission:Impossible franchise is not an interconnected series of documentaries?

New York Times, can your next article be about how I get my money back?

rvandenoord.bsky.social•4 days ago

That plane stunt in The Final Reckoning was epic.

jordynjjones.bsky.social•4 days ago

True

randomperson645639.bsky.social•4 days ago

I thought the sub scene was way better

partysubdoyle.bsky.social•4 days ago

Do real spies not constantly stand on boxes that are kept just out of frame?

jordynjjones.bsky.social•4 days ago

He can’t save the world alone that’s why is called mission impossible

flyintheointment.bsky.social•4 days ago

These movies along with other franchises such as Rocky are designed to make short mediocre men look like big strong brave hero’s.. Cruise and Stallone are addicted to themselves.. why one watches this crap is beyond me

theescapist.bsky.social•4 days ago

Did he end it by pulling off his flawless whole head mask

leehamnews.com•4 days ago

What was wrong with MI: Final Reckoning was a preposterous plot and a banal script.

elisantana.bsky.social•4 days ago

Spies just gossip all day

bleatin.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is the film writer 'Tom Cruise' isn't it? Not the vacuous Hollywood actor?

bleatin.bsky.social•3 days ago

Next you'll be paying a consultant to tell us 007 James Bond didn't and hasn't worked for the UK's secret service

randomperson645639.bsky.social•4 days ago

Not a spy, but something from my wheelhouse - you absolutely cannot geolocate something with any degree of accuracy using ONE detector. Triangulation is necessary.

notetherapy.bsky.social•4 days ago

Give media coverage to the next attempt of the Freedom Flotilla. The same one Israel bombed.

powerclyde.bsky.social•4 days ago

IDGAF.

unsouci.bsky.social•3 days ago

zenzi10zi.bsky.social•4 days ago

Maybe,

after this former spy has jumped off a mountain on a motorbike,

I'll listen to his opinion about what Tom Cruise did wrong.

xeskals13.bsky.social•4 days ago

Tom Cruise gets to save the world in every “Mission: Impossible.” My mission? Just to be safe, fed, and treated like a human as a trans refugee in South Sudan, even that feels impossible.