RGV claims Indian filmmakers treat audiences as ‘dumb’, blames this for lack of films like Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning here: ‘We make movies like…’

Only in SCREEN | Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, in all its exhaustive and bloated messiness, stands as a tribute to the myth of Tom Cruise

Taking to X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday, RGV wrote, “The difference between them (western filmmakers) and us is, they assume the audience to be intelligent and push their intelligence further up, by making films like Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning. On the contrary, we assume the audience to be dumb and we push their dumbness further down in the hope of even reaching the dumbest of the audience by making films like ____________.” He, however, refrained from naming any specific film, leaving it up to the audience to draw their own conclusions.

Featuring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Henry Czerny and Angela Bassett reprising their roles from the previous films, The Final Reckoning is the eighth instalment in the franchise and a direct sequel to Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023). In her review of the movie, SCREEN’s Shalini Langer wrote: “The film is an ode to Tom Cruise. In its numerous flashbacks to the previous MI films, it underlines the times Ethan Hunt saved the world, and honours the people he loved and lost.”