Physics in Film

Mission Impossible III was a pretty standard action movie, and that means that along with all of the climactic fight scenes and the tense shootouts there were quite a bit of questionable physics. I chose three scenes in particular. The First scene is when Ethan needs to swing from one skyscraper to the next. A few things stand out to me in this scene, the first is that the time the rope catches Ethan he is already at a point that is equal in altitude than his destination, the second is that when the rope catches, Ethan loses a lot of his energy and you can tell because his speed decreases significantly, and the third is that Ethan is producing massive amounts of drag. So, with all of this in place, can he make the jump? First off, lets give some context: Initial Building: 226 m tall Final Building: 162 m tall Distance Between: 47.55 m across To make it across such a wide gap would mean that he would need to be going at an incredible speed, but if he is going at such hig