We must not forget that Tom Cruise, who has never looked back on the road of action movies, was once an acting school. In the 1980s, "Rain Man" and "Born on the Fourth of July" let people see the birth of an idol star who can act. Even "Top Gun", which made him a hit, is hardly an action movie in the true sense.
However, Tom Cruise's movie career has completely changed from one movie. In 1996, "Mission Impossible" became the best-selling action movie of the year, and it also made people see the unique potential of this idol star who had never made an action movie before.
Compared with the top action movie stars of the time, Tom Cruise, who has no kung fu foundation, has embarked on a completely different path of action movies, doing his own stunts. In the seven "Mission: Impossible" movies in the past 20 years, only these jaw-dropping stunt scenes can be remembered.
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After the success of "Mission: Impossible 1", Hong Kong director John Woo was invited to take over the sequel, and John Woo became the hottest director in Hollywood at that time with his two classic action films "Broken Arrow" and "Face Changing" in the 1990s. It's a pity that Tom Cruise is not Chow Yun-fat after all. The most impressive thing about "Mission: Impossible 2" is Tom Cruise's rock climbing stunt performance at the beginning of the movie.
In the movie, we can see that Tom Cruise climbed rocks with only one safety rope and made a difficult cliff jump. Tom Cruise's stunt potential and professionalism are beginning to emerge.
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If the rock climbing in "Mission: Impossible 2" is just a small test, then in "Mission: Impossible 4-Ghost Protocol", Tom Cruise started the iconic "death stunt" of this series of movies.
In the movie, what Tom Cruise needs to conquer is the tallest building in the world, the 828-meter Burj Khalifa. He not only needs to climb up the Burj Khalifa, but also needs to make the thrilling action of falling down four floors rapidly, and what he only protects with him is a set of special personal protective equipment.
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In "Mission: Impossible 5 - Mysterious Country", what Tom Cruise needs to climb is a large transport plane that is taking off, and rises with the plane to a height of 1,000 feet, while Tom Cruise in a suit is only connected to the plane by a hidden safety rope.
Although this height is not as high as the Burj Khalifa in the previous episode, the risk of flying at high speed is much higher than that of static climbing. Even the impact of a small bird can make this "Mission Impossible 5" Tom Cruise's posthumous work.
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In 2018's "Mission: Impossible 6-Full Collapse", 56-year-old Tom Cruise proved to the world that Jackie Chan is not the only one who dares to jump off a building. In the movie, Cruise leaps between two buildings tens of meters apart, reminiscent of the Jackie Chan kung fu movies of the peak era.
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The English original name of the movie "Mission: Impossible 6" is called "fallout", largely because of Tom Cruise's other deadly stunt in the film, HALO jump (high jump, low open skydiving). This action requires Cruise to wear an oxygen mask, jump down from an altitude of 10,000 meters in thin air, and then fall freely, and then open an umbrella and land at a height of 1,000 meters from the ground.
This is beyond the scope of stunt performance, only special forces will do such a move.
Epilogue
In 2023, we finally ushered in the final chapter of "Mission: Impossible" and even more thrilling stunt performances by 61-year-old Tom Cruise. How to evaluate Tom Cruise's movies is not important anymore. This idol niche who can rely on his appearance to make a living, just relied on his "death" professionalism to achieve movie achievements far beyond the boundaries of his abilities.
With the release of the two parts of "Mission: Impossible", we will finally bid farewell to this "unkillable" agent and this "undead" Tom Cruise. The film industry has also entered the era of computer stunts. How many people are willing to perform "death stunts" like Tom Cruise?
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