I only recall one dancers routine going crazy laughable viral, Raygun. And while that might be lumped onto by those that don’t get Breaking and don’t want it to be an Olympic sport, they were going to gripe anyway.
The Raygun routine was less an indictment of Breaking and more of a “how the hell did she even get to this level?” There’s a reason why a more established sport doesn’t go viral when a participant doesn’t qualify….Im don’t believe I remember a participant coming up in any other sport that was that quality of not even capable of this level.
But individual bad efforts in other sports have gone viral too, like the diver who tuck flopped a dive and scored 0.
TL;DR: if there was no Raygun those that don’t get or hate Breaking would still be griping. But Raygun was epic levels of “how the hell did this competitor get here?”
I think Cruise made sense for what they wanted to do. I wondered why he was around so much, but didn’t wonder anymore from the moment he was standing on top of Stade de France. It was going to be a very Hollywood action hand off.
And I can’t think of a more recent action franchise to play it off of for the right tone.
If it were me I would have Keanu John Wick it. But John Wick is pretty heavy and dark character for this too, so I get it. Just Tom rappelling, motorcycling, skydiving. That worked as that was what they were trying to do.
I love the idea of Arnold, but I do expect he will be very prominent in 28 anyway.
The question is less who would be best but who would be best for what they were going to do. They were going to Hollywood it. Not the way I would have wanted to do it, but since it was that way I’m good with Cruise.
And I expect in four years he will be rappelling in somewhere there too.