if youve seen mission impossible dead reckoning part 1 youll know it ends with a frankly incredible train sequence this features tom cruises ethan hunt and hayley atwells grace climbing through the derailed train as it begins to plunge off a broken bridge naturally after hunt landed on it by jumping off a cliff on a motorcycle toowell we now know that originally that orient express section was going to be a whole lot longer speaking to variety the films editor eddie hamilton has said the whole sequence was about an hourandahalf long in our first iteration we got it down to like 50 minutes in the finished movieinterestingly hamilton gave some insight into what they cut in order to get it down in the final version too he explained that the moment when the carriages begin to topple over into the ravine was much longer before they screened it for test audiences it was originally a bit longer and we lifted a few sections out because they were saying it was too much he addedwhile the film is already a pretty hefty length at two hours and 43 minutes long we must admit were quite intrigued to see what a longer version of that incredible sequence would have looked like maybe we can petition for the christopher mcquarrie cutfor more check out our rankings of the best mission impossible movies as well as our latest coveragehow mission impossibles hayley atwell brought her scrappy dead reckoning newcomer to lifechris mcquarrie opens up on dead reckoning im more frightened now than i was on my first mission impossiblemission impossible dead reckonings surprise ending choice kept tom cruise up at night