LOS ANGELES -- Ethan Hunt isn't the most grounded character.
The last time we got a look at Tom Cruise in a new Mission: Impossible movie, he was precariously perched on Dubai's 2,700-foot Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest manmade structure. The year was 2011, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol made almost $700 million worldwide, so why mess with a good thing? Vertiginous height sells.
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But in Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation, instead of scaling a static skyscraper, Cruise is holding on for dear life to the door of a next-generation C-130 Hercules as the giant aircraft is lifting off from an airfield.
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The Mission MO is still all about unbelievably complicated gadgets and Rube Goldberg machine-level solutions to spy problems, but now, we can expect extreme heights when Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation opens in the United States on July 31.
Bring your own Dramamine.