Mission: Impossible 6 Learned An Important Lesson From Mission: Impossible 5

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In the lucrative holiday box office window of 2011, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol grossed nearly twice as much as its predecessor. Brad Bird’s jaw-dropping live-action debut turned the Mission: Impossible series from a middling action movie franchise into a must-see blockbuster extravaganza. Unlike its predecessors, Ghost Protocol provided audiences with spectacle on the scale of Fast & Furious but with real tension and stakes and realism, thanks to minimal CGI and a daring star/producer who’s willing to do the majority of the dangerous spy action for real.

The most thrilling set-piece in Ghost Protocol – and the image the studio hung the whole marketing campaign on – sees Tom Cruise scaling the facade of the tallest skyscraper on Earth: the Burj Khalifa. Cruise actually performed this entire sequence for real, albeit with a couple of harnesses edited out by the VFX team, swinging from the side of the building at a dizzying altitude like a true-to-life Spider-Man.

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Since then, the M:I movies have been defined by their breathtaking in-camera stunt work. Cruise’s practical stunt work is refreshing in an era of action cinema rammed with weightless CGI. It harks back to the old-school techniques of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns and the original Indiana Jones trilogy. Ever since Cruise scaled the Burj Khalifa, the Mission: Impossible series has become an exercise in one-upmanship as the actor keeps pushing himself to new extremes. This franchise tradition must be a nightmare for the studio’s insurers, but it’s a dream for moviegoers.

After Ghost Protocol took not only the franchise but also the entire action genre to new heights of spectacle, a lot