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Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Part One director Christopher McQuarrie has explained why the film doesn't have a cliffhanger ending.
Two-parter films have been making a comeback in recent years, following the double whammy of Avengers: Infinity War into Endgame (although delayed by the pandemic). In the last few months we've seen Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Fast X end on cliffhangers to get fans hyped up for their conclusions.
Despite being the first of a two-parter, Dead Reckoning bucks that trend, with McQuarrie stating that it was something that Tom Cruise felt very strongly about.
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Speaking to Total Film/GamesRadar+, the filmmaker stated: "Where we ended the movie was always where we were going to end it. How we ended the movie was a big, big mystery for us.
"It kept Tom awake at night throughout production. He would come in all the time and say: 'This can't be a cliffhanger, it's got to be satisfying.' The audience has to feel a sense of completion... If you leave it with a cliffhanger, it feels a little bit like we're expecting you to come back. We didn't want that feeling.
"The feeling we were reaching for – and we hope you feel – is we dare you not to come back. We want to leave you thinking: 'Oh, I can't wait to see what happens next.'"
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He added that the film's final scene was "constantly" revised and reworked, with Ethan Hunt's farewell on the train filmed two years after the camera initially started rolling, with Cruise having to wear a wig to hide his Part Two hairstyle.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is out in cinemas now.
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