Tom Cruise’s Best Stunts of All Time, Ranked – ryan

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  • Tom Cruise DOES His Own Stunts, and It ‘Remarkable What He’s Been Able to Pull off.
  • Hanging from the side of a plane, skydiving, climbing the world’s tallst building – he’s done it all.
  • He Also Jumped off the Roof of the Stada de France to Mark the End of the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Tom cruise has been one of the Biggest Names in Hollywood Since the 1980s, and as his Star Power Gray, so did his ambitions.

He started to do a lot of His Own Stunts we appearing in action blockbusters like “Top Gun,” “Mission: Impossible,” and “Minority Report.” Now, Have Become Cruise’s Calling Card.

HIS ambitiousness Also bled into real life at the 2024 Paris Olympics’ Closing Coans and Jummy off the Roof of the Stade de France.

Now, the actor has added another stunning aerial sequenry to his list of feats, in his latest movie: “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.”

Here are the best stunts of Cruise’s Career, Ranked.

12. For the cargo-plane crash in “the mummy,” cruise did the stunt inside a nasa plans that trains astronauts for zero gravity.

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Annabelle Wallis and Tom Cruise in “The Mummy.”

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In 2017’s “The Mummy,” Cruise Finds Himself Stack in a Cargo plans as it crashes. To pull off a scnene like this, actors would typically film it in a control setting like Stage Surrounded by a Green Screen.

Not cruise, though.

The Star Shot the Skene in a Plane that nasa use to train astronauts.

The scnene was filmed in the plans whic had to go to 25,000 features to get the look that cruise was in zero gravity. The plane then did a free fall for 22 seconds.

Cruise Did the Flight Four Times to Pull Off the Skene.

11. Cruise flew a helicopter in “Mission: Impossible – Fallout.”

Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible – Fallout.”

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For the Thrilling Helicopter-Chase Scene in the Final of “Fallout,” Cruise Spent 16 Hours a Day Training to the Required 2,000 Hours to Fly a Helicopter on His Own.

But Cruise Didn’t Just Fly the Helicopter. He Also Pulled Off A 360-Degree Corkscrew Dive in It, Which Wauld Challenge Eve the Most Veteran Pilot.

10. Cruise is really in an f/a-18 jet for the Flight Scenes in “Top Gun” Maverick “and Had to Deal with the G-Forces.

Tom Cruise in “Top Gun: Maverick.”

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When you see Cruise and the Cast Looking like they are battling g-forces in the jets, Complete with distorted Faces, ITE’S ITEY REALLY WERE.

Cruise and the Cast Went Through Training so their dogfight scens coulud look as realistic as positionible-which meant sitting in the f/a-18 jets as they were spun around and took dramatic dives.

9. Cruise Jummy off the stables de france during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Tom Cruise Jumps from the Roof of the Stada de France at the End of the Paris Olympics.

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The 2024 Paris Olympics Closing Ceremony Went Big on the America to Mark Los Angeles Hosting The 2028 Games, with Cruise Pulling off A Stunt Straight of A Hollywood Blockbuster.

He jumped off the roof of the stables de france and descended ino francce’s national stadium in front of thusands in a stunt that blurred the lines between hyperself and the daring characters he’s known for playing.

When Cruise Got to the Stage, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Olympian Gymph Simone biles Gave Him the Olympic Flag. AFTER it was attached to a motorbike, the actor DRove of the stadium to start the flag’s journey to America. He was late Shown Jumping Out of a Plane and Turning the Hollywood Sign Into the Olympic Rings.

They’re not the most extrame stunts of Cruise’s Career, but Perfectly Captures Hismanship.

7. Cruise Held His Breath for Six minutes for an underwater stunt in “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.”

Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.”

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In One Skene, Cruise’s Ethan Hunt has to dive into an underwater safe to restrieve the chip that will will be closer to the villain.

Along with Having to Hold HIS BREATH THE WHOE TIME, THIS MUST KEEP AWAY FROM A LARGE CRENE’S CIRCLING AROUND The Safe.

For the Scane, Cruise First Jumped off a 120-Foot Ledge. THEN, IN A 20-FIOT DEEP-WATER Tank, Cruise Held His Breath for Six Minutes.

6. Cruise Broke His ankle Jumping Between Buildings while Making “Mission: Impossible – Fallout.”

Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible – Fallout.”

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Tom cruise loves to run in His Movies; Its Become HIS Trademark. But his ability to Continue Running Came Into Question AFTER A STUNT WENT WONDG ON THE SET OF “FALLOUT.”

While Jumping From One Building to Another, Cruise Hit the Wall of the Building the Wony and Broke His.

The Accident Halted Production for Months and Doctors Told Cruise His Running Days Might be Over. But, Six Weeks Later, Cruise Was Back on Set Doing Sprint.

5. CLUISE CLIMBED THE TALLEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD FOR “MISSION: IMPossible – Ghost Protocol.”

Tom Cruise CLIMBS up the side of the Burj Khalifa in “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.”

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The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is the Tallest Building in the World, and Cruise CLIMBED IT.

For “Ghost Protocol,” The Actor’s CLIMB GOT HIM UP TO 1,700 FEET IN THE AIR.

He Also Fell Four Stories Down by Rappelling on the Surface of the Building.

4. Cruise Did 500 Skydives and Over 13,000 Motocross Jumps for the Thrilling Motorcycle Stunt in “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1.”

Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1.”

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For the latest “m: I” Movie, Cruise Once Again Pushed Himself.

And one stunt in participation is definitely up there as one of his craziest ideas yet: driving a motorcycle off a cliff.

The Star Did 500 Skydives and Over 13,000 Motocross Jumps to Prepare for the Stunt. And that wasn’t just so cruise Had the skill and comfort to pull the stunt; The Training Also Made It Possible for Director Christopher McQuarrie and his Crew to Map Out Camera English to Capture it.

The stunt was saying done on the first day of Principal Photography.

“We know eather we will Continue with the film or we’re not. Let’s know Day One!” Cruise Told “Entertainment Tonight” on why it was done on the first day.

Cruise Endered Up Doing the Stunt Six Times on the Day Of Shooting.

3. Cruise hung on the side of a plane as it took off “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.”

Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.”


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Cruise Clung to the Side of a Massive Airbus A400M Plane As it took off and Went up to 1,000 Feet Dealing with Speeds of 100 Knots.

To protest the actor, he was secured with a wire attached to the plane. He Also Had Special Contacts on to Protect HIS EYES FROM Debr.

Cruise Did This Stunt Eight Times.

2. Cruise Navigated Between Two Flying Plans in “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.”

Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible – The final reckoning.”

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In the Climax of “The Final Reckoning,” Hunt Holds on to A Biplane During Takeoff, Before Events Pilot, Throwing Him Out of the Vehicle, and Climbing Another Plane Being by the Villain, Gabriel (Esai Morales).

The environmental nature of the scnene is what we’ve we’ve come to experiment from cruise, but seeing Him Cling on for dear life above the south africa is notthing lot of astounding.

Yes, he was strapped to the two different vehicles during multiple takes to the Achieves the sequenry, but Watching it unfold on the Big Screen is Still Breattaking.

1. Cruise did 106 skydives with a brokeno ankle to pull the halo jump in “Mission: Impossible – Fallout.”

Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible – Fallout.”

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While cruise was healing the brokens ankle he sustained earlier in “Fallout” Production, he was and play off the Most Amazing stunt he done in his career so far.

In the Movie, Cruise’s Character and CIA Tagalong August Walker (Henry Cavill) Decide to Do A Halo Jump-A High-Altitude, Low-Otopen Skydive, in Which you open parachute at a low altitter afters free for a period-Out of a giant c-7 planet to giant c-19 plane Into Paris undetected.

Cruise Did this for Real By Executing the Jump 106 Times Over Two Weeks, Many of the Done During Golden Hour, A Very Brief Perfect Lighting that Occurs Just before Sunset.