Rough Iraqi
deserts in the opening sequence could become an effective backdrop, and collapsed buildings might have allowed Cruise to get gritty, but Kurtzman never stressed on this potentiality.
Not exact matches
The
opening sequence has an impossibly large spacecraft, though not doing the exact same thing that the Millennium Falcon did
in its first screen appearance, a scene
in a cantina where many strata of society and species meet while music fills the air, and a sun (only one) that sets with the same desolate glow on a
desert planet that we first saw on Tatooine when Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) lived there.
The elongated
opening - credit
sequence is beautifully creepy: Antonio Bay at midnight with the spirits making their presence known — phones mindlessly ringing, items menacingly falling off shelves
in a
deserted supermarket, parked cars coming alive, their horns blaring, headlights flashing.