An audience member during an early screening of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning “almost had a heart attack” while watching an action scene from the upcoming film, it has been revealed.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is being billed as the final entry in the long-running Mission: Impossible franchise. The film is due to hit cinemas on May 23 and will star Tom Cruise along with Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Vanessa Kirby and more.
In the build-up to its release, director Christopher McQuarrie has hosted a small screening, where he revealed to Empire, per GamesRadar, that he overheard an audience member saying they nearly suffered a heart attack while watching a high-octane action scene.
“We had a small screening, and someone said, ‘I was suffocating throughout the entire sequence. I almost had a heart attack.’ And I thought, ‘I guess we did something right,” McQuarrie said.
McQuarrie did not reveal what the scene entailed, though the film’s trailer in November was filled to the brim with heart-stopping sequences.
Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Tom Cruise and Rebecca Ferguson in ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’. CREDIT: Paramount
In a three-star review of Dead Reckoning Part One, NME wrote: “The problems come when Dead Reckoning tries to be too clever. Production on the film wrapped in 2021, so Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie couldn’t have known how prescient the AI themes would prove to be. Now, as ChatGPT dominates the internet and we all wait anxiously for robots to make us redundant, the film’s setup seems like a masterstroke.”
“But it’s sadly also its downfall. After an exciting first third, we drift into a series of bloated exposition sessions where thinly drawn side-characters spend far too long talking up the apocalyptic (but actually quite vague) threat of AI.”
The Mission: Impossible series is based on Bruce Geller’s ’60s TV series of the same name and began with Brian De Palma’s first film in 1996. The seven movies to date have accrued more than $4billion worldwide.
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