So, we saw the new Tom Cruise movie “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning” today.  Gotta admit, it was fantastic.  I have always appreciated stunt work that is not done by some dweeb on a computer somewhere in the world. Tom knows this – he’s the same age as my wife, and I don’t see her jumping out of helicopters.

What got me was the credits. There is a staff headed up by a “Safety and Health Advisor”. 

I imagine it goes this way:

Mr. Advisor: “Mr. Cruise, as your Safety and Health Advisor, I must tell you that nothing planned for this movie is either safe or healthy.”

Mr. Cruise:  “OK. We’ll jump a motorcycle off a cliff.”

Mind you, when I got home I looked up this stunt on you-tube.  He didn’t jump motorcycle off a cliff one single time.  He did it six times.

I’m pretty sure that Mr. Advisor simply gave up at this point.