Is There an Efficient Payoff for It in Action Films?

"There's an element here of writing to set up things and the idea is that you know that there's an easier payoff for it," says Cruise. "One of the things that Chris did in he always does is he he overwrites every scene he puts in more than we will need deliberately because he knows that we'll be pairing it back." The actor adds: "Because the scenes are overwritten we have extra lines of dialogue which Thomas Tom Cruise as Maverick may or may not be landing"