Mission Impossible, the most famous action scenes

To each new chapter of Mission: Impossiblea single question resonates between spectators, journalists and colleagues actors: what will Tom Cruise invent this time?. Because while the rest of Hollywood crowds the Green Screen and relies on the CGI, he continues to prefer real helicopters, authentic precipices and jumps into the void without stunt double.

In view of the world preview of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning At the Cannes Film Festival, we celebrate the saga with the Most crazy, spectacular and unforgettable action scenes. Those who rewritten the rules of the action and who, let’s admit, only Tom Cruise could do.

Yes, it’s all true: Tom Cruise has tied himself outside an Airbus A400m and flew to 1,500 meters high, taking off Really hanging on the door. No special effects: only an actor fixed with adrenaline, eight clapperboard to obtain the perfect shot and a troupe terrified of the idea that something could go wrong. It is probably the most absurd scene ever made in a modern action. And even today he sweats his hands.

Another lap, another vertigo. Cruise is literally climbing on the highest building in the worldwith bare hands, running on the facade of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. In a scene to make the knees tremble, we see it suspended at 828 meters high with only magnetic gloves and the impossibility, for the viewer, to breathe. The sequence has become legend and marked the turning point: from then on, each Mission: Impossible should have exceeded the previous one. And he did it.

For this sequence, Tom Cruise did 106 high altitude launches from a military plane, to over 7,600 meters high. It is a Halo leap (High Altitude Low Opening), a maneuver used by the special forces in which the parachute opens as late as possible. The scene has turned with natural light at sunsetin a sequence floor, with the room attached to another paratrooper in free fall. The result is pure poetry of action. And total madness.

One of the most spectacular chase sequences of recent cinema. Cruise Guide A bike without a helmet on the streets of Parisgalvanizing among the running cars, darting against hand on the Champs-élysées and challenging all law (of the road code and gravity). Each curve is real. Any risk, calculated but authentic. Director Christopher Mcquarrie said: “We blocked the city to get around, but Tom still risked life with every take”.

In the new chapter presented in Cannes, Cruise runs and fights on a full speed train at full speedjust like in the final scene of the first Mission: Impossiblebut with twenty years of more experience and zero green screen. Turn in Norway on real tracks, the sequence pays homage to the past and relaunches the present. It is not only nostalgia: it is technical and physical evolution in the pure state.

Defined by Tom Cruise himself as The most dangerous scene ever shotsees him throw himself with one Motorcycle from a ramp built on a Norwegian cliff To then open the parachute in free fall. Cruise trained for months between jumping base, motocross and millimetric calculations. The jump has been repeated six times to get the perfect shot. Each recovery is a symphony of courage and precision.

Waiting for the second volume of The Final Reckoningit seems that there is one Underwater scene shot in a real submarinewith cruise that immerses itself without oxygen for several minutes. If confirmed, it will be another piece in the collection of companies (IM) that define the Cruise myth.

Perhaps the most incredible company of all is that Tom Cruise is the producer of each film of the saga from the first chapter. It means that it is not only the protagonist: it is the architect of every undertaking, the mind behind every madness, the body that puts the face and bones there. While Hollywood relies on formulas and franchises, he has transformed Mission: Impossible In a personalized project that bears his signature (and his body). Mission accomplished, other than impossible.