If you saw any of the Tom Cruise-starring Mission Impossible movies then you know just how brazenly reckless Tom Cruise can be when it comes to performing his own stunts. Cruise went as far as firing his own insurance company so he could perform some of the stunts he executed in the franchise. Having spoken to a few stuntmen, it's all about the rush. Once you start doing it, it's very hard to stop. Much props to Cruise, I don't think anyone else in Hollywood goes to the extremes Cruise does in trying to make his action scenes look as genuinely realistic as possible.
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Christopher McQuarrie seems to have become the go-to script doctor for Tom Cruise. The 49-year-old writer-director was called on to write or re-write "Ghost Protocol," "Edge of Tomorrow" "Valkyrie" and "The Mummy" — not to mention having written and directed Cruise in the last two 'Mission: Impossible' flicks and "Jack Reacher."
Read moreReview: “Mission: Impossible - Fallout"
You can always count on the "Mission: Impossible" franchise to deliver much-needed thrills during the summer movie season. It helps that Tom Cruise, playing IMF agent Ethan Hunt, does his own stunts, which brings an authentic feel to the set pieces that most summer blockbusters would lack due to overreliance with CGI. "Ghost Protocol" had Tom Cruise hanging on for dear life on the Burj Khalifa skyscraper. In "Rogue Nation," the Vienna State Opera House sequence, a blend of nastily rendered Hitchcockian suspense, stunned us with its risk-taking acrobatics.
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