In the discussion (7)
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- The 155-minute length has aged badly; the beach scene could be ten seconds, though one host argues it is needed to show the infidelity and the repair, and the film should be about two hours, with Pollack seemingly refusing to cut anything.
- Cruise's pirate shirt in the Caymans and the sweaty basketball scene, where he never actually plays, have not aged well; his athletic ability is a favorite topic, with softball in A Few Good Men and cornerback in All the Right Moves the most believable, and Vision Quest imagined as his ideal sports film.
- Cruise's backflips with a street tumbler on Beale Street, set up so he can be sad walking past the kid later, immediately date the film; nobody in real life does that, Abby's 'there he goes' makes no sense, and Kaya, asked whether she would date a man who did it, answers absolutely and then absolutely not.
- Cruise eats a rib on the rooftop like a popsicle, as if he had never eaten ribs, prompting the joke that he learned human behavior through acting.
- Tarrance and another agent order steak sandwiches at a late-night diner and get them within thirty-five seconds; Abby's plan to fly to Grand Cayman makes no sense, since she could not know the hotel or get a direct flight from Memphis.
- Wilford Brimley as head of security and muscle has aged oddly; the last forty-five minutes are heavy on plot maintenance, such as the FBI holding the mob family's itinerary, Mitch getting the overbilling idea from the overbilled client, and Avery rolling over for Abby after she drugs him.
- The film has a ton of flaws but is still great; the show does not require Citizen Kane.