Our Complete History of the Mission Impossible Stunts! Across 4 decades, Tom Cruise has been risking his life for our enjoyment. In this video, we break down every major Mission: Impossible Stunt.
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This right there is Tom Cruise. The background around him isn’t a green screen, it’s all real. And he’s about to ride this bike off a real cliff.
All of this is to achieve one perfect stunt for Mission: Impossible movie, Dead Reckoning Part One.
And for the past 27 years, Tom Cruise had been performing some of the most death-defying stunts ever put on film.
The Mission Impossible film series is one of the greatest of all time, and with each new entry, the movies keep evolving, and the stunts get more extraordinary.
The franchise sort of became Tom Cruise’s billion-dollar bucket list, as he finds new and elaborate ways to kill himself.
But in the heart of all of this action, there’s a powerful story of an actor, and a character, who dares to do the impossible.
So let’s explore how Mission Impossible endured the test of time and why the series remains one of the most relevant and important franchises of all time.
Doug: Hey person, so what’s….what’s the deal with this Tom Cruise guy, like is he nuts?
Well I guess that depends on how you look at sanity, but certainly it takes a special individual to hang off an Airbus A400M, climb the tallest building in the world, and perform a 25,000 feet Halo jump - all for our entertainment.
The stunts aren’t the only reason why these films are great, but they’re certainly what generates the hype.
In fact, the plot of the last 3 Mission movies was built around the crazy stunts Tom Cruise wanted to do.
And what makes it so special is that Tom Cruise performs most of his stunts himself, and they’re usually done with limited CGI.
So if Ethan Hunt flies a helicopter in the movie, you can bet it’s Tom Cruise sitting in the cockpit and flying that chopper for real.
Of course, Tom Cruise isn’t the only actor who performs his own stunts. There are many others who have been doing it for years.
Jackie Chan walked so Cruise could run. And run he did. He’s been running since 1996.
But no one does it like Tom Cruise.
Because you see, it’s not simply about the actor doing his own stunts, it’s more than the spectacle.
It’s about immersing the audience in these incredible action sequences.
Since Cruise is the one performing the stunts, the movie can stay much longer on the action. We can see the full extent of the action without frenzy editing.
So when Cruise rides a bike against traffic in the streets of Paris, we see the action in its full glory, and that puts us right next to Ethan Hunt. This keeps the audience as close as possible to the action, we feel it, and that’s the magic of this series.
For the past 27 years, there were 6 Mission Impossible movies, they keep evolving and somehow getting better than ever.
The core of the Mission Impossible movies revolves around Ethan Hunt and his team of IMF agents, who accomplish impossible missions and save the world.
Doug: What’s IMF?
It stands for the Impossible Mission Force.
Doug: really? That’s a silly name for a secret agency
Well, at least it’s better than MI6. Like what happened to the other 5 MIs?
[whisper off camera] Yeah I know it’s the sixth section of the Directorate of the British Military Intelligence, don’t get mad at me.
MI 1
The first Mission Impossible came out in 1996 and was directed by Brian De Palma.
The movie is very loosely based on the 80s Mission Impossible show, which is by itself a sequel to the 60s series.
Mission Impossible One kind of feels like an entirely different entity compared to the high-octane, action-packed, epic-scale movies that followed.
Back in the 90s, Tom Cruise wasn’t yet famous for his amazing stunts.
The first film is a psychological spy thriller. There are a lot of twists, backstabbings and intense paranoia. The first movie was mostly grounded in reality.
Well as grounded as you can be with the iconic masks and the super advanced tech and exploding gums.
Anyway, the gist of the plot is this: A few months after Ethen Hunt joins the IMF, his whole team is betrayed and most of them are killed during a mission in Prague.
The traitor is Jim Phelps, the team leader, and Ethan’s mentor.
Ethan is framed as the traitor and is disavowed.
This whole concept of Hunt being disavowed and forced to go rogue is sort of the theme of the entire series. It happens in every one of these movies.