"The scores plummeted": Longstanding Mission: Impossible director once cut just 5 extra minutes from Fallout, but audiences completely hated it

Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – Fallout
(Image credit: Paramount Pictures)

Director Christopher McQuarrie has recalled how slicing just five minutes out of Tom Cruise's action classic Miss🐓ion𒁏: Impossible – Fallout led to a surprising backlash.

When the topic of director's cuts &ndash𒐪; and specifically Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven three-hour cut – was brought up by , McQuarrie responded that shorter runtimes aren't always indicative of qual🅷ity.

McQuarrie said, "Well, you know the story about Brazil, how they cut Brazil down. Or the original American release o🎶f Once Upon a Time in America. Shorꦕter isn't better. Fallout, we did a cut that was five minutes shorter, and the scores plummeted. Only five minutes."

The direꩲctor added of his and Tom Cruise's entertainment-at-all-costs philosophy: "Tom and I say all the time... We were asked when [Final Reckoning] was coming together, and we didn't know the runtime, and the studio would say, 'Well, how long is the movie?' And we always say, 'As long as it's entertaining.'"

McQuarrie, who has directed and written for Cruise across nine movies, reunites with his star for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mission: Impossible – The Final 𒁏Reckoning.

Touted as Cruise's swan song from the role of Ethan Hunt and the action franchise, McQuarrie even went a step beyond for the eighth Mission: Impossible movie – by trying out one of Cruise'🍒s death-defying stunts for himself.

"I said, 'Just in terms of the speed, because the force of the air, for me tওo move quickly on the wing was… You just can't do it,'" Cruise said during a Final Re꧒ckoning press conference in Tokyo of a biplane stunt that restricted Cruise's movement.

"You're limited by the physics of how fast the aircraft is traveling and the force of the wind, that was utterly brutal. So I just said, 'Listen, I think the best thing is if you just do it. Go out, sit in the airplane, go out on✃ the wing, and feel it. Feel the pressure. So, here I am, train🌞ing him."

For his part, McQuarrie said his own wing-walking went down a treat: "Yeah, it was a lot of fun. I would𝔉 definitely do it again."

If you ask the director, that was probably a far less brutal five minutes than the one that didn'🌌t make it into one of Misꦺsion: Impossible – Fallout's divisive test screenings.

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