Fast & Furious 9 will feature spectacular stunts, but Mission: Impossible 7 can outshine them by being more practical and thus more realistic.
Both Mission: Impossible 7 and Fast & Furious 9 will feature plenty of breathtaking stunts, but Tom Cruise’s devotion to realism might be the decisive factor that leaves Vin Diesel and his friends in the dust. Mission: Impossible 7 follows Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) after his victory over August Walker (Henry Cavill) in Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Some established Mission: Impossible characters are expected to return, including Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg), Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames), and Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson), in a story that will lead to the yet unknown events of Mission: Impossible 8, which is scheduled to release in 2022.
Fast & Furious 9 follows the globetrotting adventures of Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and “the family” after saving the world from nuclear war. This time, Dom faces off against his brother Jakob Toretto (John Cena), a brand-new villain with a plan that will lead to the conclusive events of Fast & Furious 10, the last installment in the franchise. The most anticipated aspects of the upcoming sequel are the physics-defying stunts and the shocking twists the promotional material has promised, not to mention the return of Han Lue (Sung Kang) from the realm of the dead years after Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) murdered him in Tokyo.
The Fast & Furious movies have long parted ways with their iconic drag racing roots, swapping them to allow for a wider range of actions and a series of more impossible stunts. Currently, it looks as though the last two installments will fully embrace the unapologetically outlandish direction the franchise has taken, and potentially get even wilder. Fast & Furious 9 will feature an action-packed trip to space and myriad stunts, with the mildest ones involving a rocket-powered car and a jet that picks up Jakob Toretto’s Ford Mustang GT350 with a magnet after he drives it off a cliff. Undoubtedly, the last two Fast & Furious movies will need plenty of CGI to achieve this kind of stunts, as opposed to the more practical method the Mission: Impossible movies have always employed.
Tom Cruise’s stunts in previous Mission: Impossible movies have not been nearly as extravagant as the heart-stopping action sequences from the Fast and Furious movies, yet they have achieved a bigger impact because of their realism. It’s more thrilling to see Tom Cruise actually dangling from the Burj Khalifa than seeing two CGI cars crashing through two CGI skyscrapers. Similarly, The Fate of The Furious‘ raining car stunt managed to be more impressive than the HALO jump scene from Mission: Impossible – Fallout because the latter obscured Tom Cruise’s real stunt with unnecessary cuts and CGI while the former threw real cars from a building on the street below. This practical way to shoot action sequences always represents a very real danger to the stars and the stunt performers, but it produces a high degree of realism that computer-generated imagery hasn’t yet reached.
A motorcycle jump from a mountain ramp and a fight sequence on top of a train sound tame in comparison to the far-fetched action sequences from most Fast & Furious movies. Still, those are some of Tom Cruise’s stunts in Mission Impossible 7 that will probably keep the spy film’s stakes higher than its car-centric competitor. Tom Cruise’s will to put his life on the line keeps proving that the star’s daredevil attitude is not just for show.
Source: screenrant
