We gave a mission to Christopher Costa. If he chooses to accept it, it would be of the utmost importance for national security. This article is self-destroyed in five minutes, so read quickly.
Costa was responsible for watching “Mission: Impossible – The Last Calculation” With me Wednesday evening and discuss the film.
Costa is the executive director of the Washington International Spy Museum and a former spy himself. More specifically, he has spent decades as a spy manager on the ground. Most of his career was in the army, where he worked on counterintelligence and with special forces. He organized operations in places such as Panama, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. His work in Afghanistan earned him two bronze stars.
None of this is a preparation to have to sit with a film of almost three hours with me.
For the uninitiated, the franchise “Mission: Impossible” focuses on the character of Tom Cruise, Ethan Hunt, a kind of Superspy. Hunt spends eight films that reduce everything, from planes to submarines. Punching Faces. Remove the costumes. Explode things. Prevent things from exploding. Coveting beautiful women who cannot help succumb to her charms. The eighth and possibly the last episode of the franchise was created last week.
During the screening of the film, which we saw on Wednesday afternoon in a royal theater in the city center of Washington, Costa sometimes let out a laugh. Watching spy films is not something he may have done in the past, because of their inaccuracies.
“I could never sit with my family,” said Costa, 62, adding: “I would speak on television. I couldn’t take it. My wife would say:” It’s crazy. Just change the chain. “”
