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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Catherine Shoard

Show me the tummy! Tom Cruise doesn’t need sleep, help or clothes in Mission: Impossible

Feel the need for Speedos … Tom Cruise in the trailer for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.
Feel the need for Speedos … Tom Cruise in the trailer for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. Photograph: Paramount Pictures

Tom Cruise spends about 30% of the final Mission: Impossible movie in his knickers. It being a very long film, that’s a lot of time spent looking at his body, glossy and gnarled and expensive as a walnut armoire, possibly in high-definition Imax and, even if not, certainly as big as a bus.

In The Final Reckoning, Cruise unbuttons to wallop goons (twice), wriggle from the Arctic seabed towards the waves, hop on a treadmill and take a long hot shower in front of the crew of a strikingly camp US military submarine.

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