[zeestephen]

The plot and story telling in the last Mission Impossible film - Fallout (#6) - was a real disappointment.

Ethan Hunt's ex-wife shows up and is ludicrously married to the actor who played the Head Gamemaker in the first Hunger Games film.

I have to believe that Cruise never watched the Hunger Games films.

For those of us who have watched them, the impression of the first Gamemaker is indelible. When you watch that actor in MI-#6, the only thing you see and hear is the Gamemaker.

The scripted dialogue from Ethan's ex-wife is so banal, and so unconvincing, and the presence of the Gamemaker husband is so incongruous, it just completely flattened the rest of MI-#6 for me.

[Guenevere]

I think this is the same guy who plays Jamie in Yellowstone

[x]

Wes Bentley? He looks a little like Tom Cruise, so you can understand why the ex-wife would be attracted to both of them.

The "Tom Cruise gay" rumor was less substantiated than the rumors about John Travolta, but apparently, Tom had all kinds of scientology rules about what to do with his "instrument" and when and how and that did a lot to encourage the stories.