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Dead Reckoning Part 1
The Mission Impossible films tend to use real locations rather than green screen or sound stages. Cruz does the stunts without camera trickery and Pegg has only ever seen him nervous a few times. In Dead Reckoning Part 1, we can see from the trailer that Cruz careens off a cliff on a motorcycle. This is far and away the most dangerous thing I've attempted, Cruz has said. The admiration is obvious. What you get with the mission films is the presence of true danger, says Pegg. It's like Buster Keaton when the house front falls down and he goes through the window. That's still more exciting to look at than a thousand CGI aliens coming at you and that
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