Warning: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One spoilers ahead.
The infamous train sequence in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One features Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt engaged in a rooftop battle with Esai Morales’ Gabriel, while hurtling down a track at 60 mph. Originally much longer, the scene reaches its climax with the train plunging off a bridge one carriage at a time, with Ethan and Grace (Hayley Atwell) clinging for their lives as they scramble back through the train.
In a recent interview with Variety, the film’s editor, Eddie Hamilton, revealed that he first crafted an hour-and-a-half long version of this sequence in 2022, which was eventually trimmed down to about 50 minutes in the final cut.