Mission: Impossible franchise director Christopher McQuarrie has changed his own image along with that of his flashy movie star, Tom Cruise.

The movie is ... the subject of Tom Cruise, who’s also at Cannes for “Mission: Impossibe – The Final Reckoning,” but with whom Schweighöfer worked on 2008’s “Valkyrie.” ...

In August 2006, it seemed like Tom Cruise's career ... religion meant to him. Cruise paused making action movies and turned to dramas like "Lions for Lambs" (2007) and "Valkyrie" (2008).

During the production of Ghost Protocol, Tom Cruise brought his Valkyrie screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie on to the set to help with rewrites. By the time that the next Mission movie came along ...

Overall, the pacing is a little off and the set pieces aren’t particularly novel – Cruise took a salary cut ... characters and the form of these movies that Dead Reckoning is by and large ...