9 Lame Opening Scenes In Otherwise Great Movies

9. Mission: Impossible - Fallout

Mission: Impossible Fallout manages to achieve the rare twofer of being a recent Tom Cruise movie that doesn't suck, and a Mission: Impossible film that doesn't make you want to go free climbing.

It also features more nuclear weapons than the Cold War. But the film doesn't even wait to start to dive into the nuclear explosions. Right at the top, Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt has a dream about his hated enemy officiating a wedding between him and his old love interest, who he left to keep safe. During the dream, a huge nuclear explosion goes off, killing him and his love interest.

What makes this scene even weirder is that this baddie is the main enemy of this film and his major plot is to detonate a bomb that will kill Ethan Hunt and his ex-love interest. Does this mean Ethan Hunt is psychic? Yes, obviously.

This film's first scene is a terrible one-two of heavy-handed foreshadowing and ludicrious dream sequence. The rest of the movie is cool stunts, helicopter hijacking, and Simon Pegg jokes. But then there's this weird bit at the beginning.

It's like eating your vegetables before getting to see a rad Mission Impossible movie.