The Wrap
During the second day of the Cannes Film Festival, a fallen filmmaker icon was remembered and Tom Cruise showed the crowd the awe-inspiring power of movies.
Choose to Accept It
Tom Cruise stormed Cannes with a glitzy screening of “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.” Big Hollywood screenings are par for the course with Cannes, but they can be a dangerous proposition. A couple of years ago, when “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” showed up to the festival, it was met with critical derision and wore those toxic reviews for six weeks before the movie opened. Thankfully, the response out of Cannes – complete with a five to seven-and-a-half minute standing ovation (depending on who you believe) was over-the-moon.
The film, which could be the final installment in the blockbuster franchise that began way back in 1996, was met with a warm response. (The review embargo broke right after the screening in Cannes got out; it’s currently sitting at 83% on Rotten Tomatoes and a more measured 70 on Metacritic.) “The emotional screening was the end of something for Cruise, but also a collective celebration of movies punctuated by explosions of applause throughout the nearly three-hour action extravaganza, capped by a wild standing ovation from an appreciative crowd,” according to Sharon Waxman’s recap of the event.
