This isn't meant to be a long post, but a brief review or comment on the Mission Impossible franchise as a whole.
Jeremy Renner and Simon Pegg effectively bastardized Mission: Impossible franchise. FR. It's kind of incredible how different the tone of the original MI movie was.
It had substance and a tone unmistakably based on some truthfulness about secret agencies and agents ... But Tom Cruises' image doesn't fare well with these sidekicks. Jeremy can't be taken seriously, ever, and Pegg is just a clown.
Incidentally, Jeremy sent 'di** pics' to cast, goes to show where M:I 5 is in terms of quality. Who knows if it is true, but goes to highlight the caliber of actors Tom OK-d.
Compared to the Bond franchise, Daniel Craig reinforced the tone and image of James Bond franchises, even better than with Pierce, the cowboy agent.
It is not hard to understand why the studios and production companies stuck Simon and Jeremy in there -- to add MCU appeal, to make more budweiser.
-- Hollywood is all out of vintage and what's left is dreggs from the bottom of the barrel.
Time to shove 'The Rock' into another movie I guess? (as they file through a rollodex of accused and disgraced actors and actresses that are unhirable forever).
Oh and Welcome to the club, Ms. Heard.
Some people said that with Johnny Depp's trial the scandals will end... but will they, really? Everything in Hollywood these days is disgrace and illness, how can you even produce a film when key players are under fire for things they didn't do, like, ever, honestly. No really, they didn't -- it's impossible.