TOP 5 Tom Cruise Stunts

Love him or hate him (I love him), Tom Cruise is one cool dude. Tom loves making movies, with Jaime Foxx even recalling whilst on set of Collateral ,that at one stage Tom pulled him aside as said "isn't this great! We're making a movie!" 

Another thing he also seems to love, is performing the majority (if not all) of his own stunts, and some of these stunts take some serious brass balls.

 

Exhibit A  

With the release of the trailer for Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, comes Tom's latest super stunt - hanging from a plane soaring 5,000 feet above the English countryside.            

  

So let's go through and look at the top five Tom Cruise stunts, in no particular order...

Stunt 1. Sky Runner

Movie: Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol
Stunt: Sequence on the exterior of the Burj Khalifa

Ethan Hunt literally runs across and down the side of the tallest building on Earth, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.

"I literally had to figure a way to fly,’ says Cruise, ‘because even with months of training, I didn't anticipate the crosswinds you get when you’re up that high. Once I figured out how to use my feet as rudders and got the spatial awareness, we got the shots we wanted."

David James has worked with Cruise on many films as a set photographer, says the stunts on Ghost Protocol were the most impressive he's ever seen the actor do.

"I've never seen Cruise not do the stunts for a film, but those scenes we shot on the Burj Khalifa in Dubai - I’m still in awe of what he did...The one that really freaked me out was in the scene where he runs down the building - he really did run down the building attached to a wire - called a descender."