Two things Tom Cruise fans can count on when the A-list actor assumes the identity of the IMF’s Ethan Hunt on the big screen are that he will run his tail off on-screen and that he is going to perform his own perilous stunts. However, as Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning enters its second weekend of theatrical release, a former Deputy Director with the Central Intelligence Agency is evaluating one of Cruise’s most memorable moments from Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol(2011), which is the fourth film in the spy franchise, specifically the glove gadgets his character wears. So, here is what the once DD of the CIA Directorate of Science and Technology, Dawn Meyerriecks, had to say when it comes to the realism of the Burj Khalifa skyscraper sequence, using Hunt’s technologically enhanced sticky gloves to scale the building à la Spider-Man (per Insider):
Take another look at this death-defying skyscraper stunt from ‘Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol’ through the CIA’s eyes. Read More