Cruises – SamaGamer

It’s go again ! Tom Cruise is back in Impossible mission this Wednesday July 12 for the seventh film in one of the best Hollywood sagas. This Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Part 1 is of very good quality, finding itself in the middle of our ranking of Impossible mission. A purely subjective ranking which nevertheless includes a totally objective element: Tom Cruise’s XXL performances.

Without the American actor now aged 61, the franchise Impossible mission wouldn’t be what it is today: a real machine for making exciting action films that are a hit all over the world. Feature film number 7 has barely been released when the forecasts are incredible, in terms of revenue in dollars. In these films, Tom Cruise performs almost all of his stunts, from car chases in Paris or Rome to jumps into the void on a motorcycle, climbing buildings several hundred meters high or stunts in the sky on planes and helicopters. To succeed in these ultra-dangerous actions, Tom Cruise can count on his talent and his amazing duo: Luther Stickell and Benji Dunn. The two men guide him in his almost impossible missions, which often gives rise to a few touches of humor acting as breathing space between two fast-paced scenes. This is still the case, obviously, in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Part 1, including the scene at Abu Dhabi airport.

Tom Cruise’s glasses VS. Apple’s Vision Pro headset

We are in the first part of Christopher McQuarrie’s film and Ethan Hunt must find a key that will allow him to unlock a mysterious secret. Except he doesn’t really know who he’s looking for. Fortunately, his two sidekicks have concocted some magical sunglasses for him. This aviator model, which is of course reminiscent of the Ray-Ban Aviators, allows them to scan everyone they see and follow everything that happens in the airport. He can also pose as someone else to those who seek him, giving him a valuable head start on his enemies. We’re not going to tell you everything in every detail (go watch the film!), but we can guarantee that this pair of glasses, in addition to being chic with its gold frames and double bridge, is the best never seen in the cinema. In life, the closest thing to it is the Vision Pro headset unveiled by Apple on June 5 and which we were able to test. We really liked it, especially with the eye tracking pushed to its maximum, but we must admit that having access to a host of data from sunglasses like those of Tom Cruise is more practical, and more discreet, than walk around with the 500 grams on the head of the helmet (mask) from the Cupertino company. Even if we suspect that the pair of the actor Impossible mission thus technologically transformed would cost as much or more than Apple’s Vision Pro, announced at $3,500.

Two-wheeled chases, climbing skyscrapers with your bare hands, fights of all kinds: stunts are part of the DNA of Impossible mission and the final installment of the franchise — Dead Reckoning, part 1 — lived up to our expectations with a completely crazy cliff jump. A stunt that would not have fit with the identity of Impossible mission without the funky glasses worn by the actor. Because let’s be honest: Tom Cruise has accustomed us to looks that are totally badass.

With a budget of $291 million, a film like Dead Reckoning, part 1 leaves nothing to chance. Between the motorcycle choreographies and the design of the equipment, every detail counts. And obviously, the production of the blockbuster did not go looking for Tom Cruise’s glasses at Decathlon: it called on the pros, namely Oakley, an American brand founded in 1975 to equip athletes.

The pair designed for the film in question is of rare simplicity: it is transparent, minimal, almost invisible. A result that required a lot of work as Nick Garfias, vice president of design at Oakley, explains: “The glasses had to be safe, practical, efficient and on top of that, they had to fit the identity of Tom’s character. Cruise in the movie. We therefore needed a thin frame, in a single block and light, both visually and in terms of weight”.

This is not the first time that the actor has collaborated with the Oakley brand. He had worked with her on other Impossible mission, and in particular on the Romeo glasses worn in the second part of the franchise. Nick Garfias explains that the film’s props designer, David Cheesman (whom he calls his “partner in crime”), and Oakley’s in-house team played a central role in the process of creating Ethan Hunt’s new glasses: the hero of Impossible mission needed an “impossible” pair suited to the “impossible” missions he was going to accomplish.