“Oh God, that was brutal,” Cruise remembered as the director noted: “This separated the joints in Tom’s fingers from the force, so by the time we finished this sequence, your hands were absolutely swollen — oh my God, it was so painful to watch.”

The Mission: Impossible franchise seemed to be setting up Gabriel to be its most fearsome villain yet, but Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoningundoes all of that in a genuinely confusing way ...

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