whether you love him or hate him you’ve
got to respect his commitment to his
craft welcome to watchmojo.com and today
we’re counting down our picks for the
top 10 insane Tom Cruise stunts before
we begin we publish new content every
day so be sure to subscribe to our
channel and ring the bell to get
notified about our latest videos for
this list we’re breaking down the most
epic the most badass and the most
dangerous stunts to date in the career
of Tom Cruise number 10 almost getting
stabbed in the eye
[Music]
in this film’s climactic fight scene IMF
agent Ethan Hunt finds himself locked in
a battle to the death with antagonist
Shawn Ambrose after some truly vicious
hand-to-hand combat
Ambrose pulls out a knife and leaps at
Hunt who manages to stop it from turning
his eyeball into a kebab at literally
the last possible second and while
director John Woo wasn’t exactly
thrilled to hear that Cruz wanted to do
the stunt himself he must have been
pleased with the final result which
makes it perfectly clear whose eyeball
is on the line if we are to glean
anything from this scene its but not all
stunts require car chases or explosions
to be considered insane number 9 almost
getting decapitated The Last Samurai to
prepare for his role in The Last Samurai
Tom Cruise underwent multiple months of
martial arts training a fact that is not
hard to discern while watching the film
however something that is hard to see is
that Cruz was almost decapitated when a
mechanical horse malfunctioned the scene
called for Cruz in Japanese actor
Hiroyuki Sanada to charge at each other
on Robo horses with sanada’s horse
stopping at a specific mark to ensure
Cruz’s head remained atop his shoulders
alas the horse must have blown a fuse
because Sanada and more importantly his
sword kept going and when it finally
stopped it was just inches from Cruz’s
in the Jack Reacher novels Reacher is
described as being six five and 250
pounds as such fans were not exactly
thrilled to hear that Tom Cruise who
stands at just five feet seven inches
would play the iconic character in the
cinematic adaptation however crews more
than made up for the height disparity by
performing all of his own driving stunts
in the film’s adrenaline-fueled chase
sequence to call this stunt dangerous
would be a gross understatement as it
not only required crews to pull off a
handful of high speed maneuvers but also
required him to smash into walls and
cars while dodging oncoming traffic
[Applause]
number seven holding his breath for
three minutes underwater Mission
Impossible rogue nation the fifth entry
in the mi franchise may as well have
just been called Mission Impossible Tom
Cruise does a bunch of insane stunts in
order to accurately pull off a single
long take in which Cruise’s character
attempts to steal a secure file from an
underwater vault the action star
straight up learned how to hold his
breath underwater for three minutes as
if that weren’t already mind-boggling
enough stunt coordinator Wade Eastwood
claims that Cruise pushed his own
physical limitations even further
learning to hold his breath for six
whole minutes you know what the jury’s
still out on whether or not cruises part
fish number six hanging on a wire
Minority Report Steven Spielberg’s
syphon waar takes place in a futuristic
world one in which the police can stop
crimes before they’re even committed
Cruz plays John Anderton a pre-crime
officer who goes on the run after being
accused of future murder while being
chased by a group of jetpack sporting
officers cruises character must make a
tough decision take a leap of faith or
be arrested
obviously he goes for the former and to
pull it off Cruise was suspended with
the help of an 80-foot rig and dropped
at high speed towards another stuntman
with the help of more than a miles worth
of cables Cruz was dropped then dragged
across a massive soundstage that must
have hurt number 5 rock climbing Mission
how do you reintroduce a character like
Ethan Hunt to film goers after a
four-year absence by having him free
climb a section of Deadhorse Point State
Park of course despite the concerns of
the studio crews insisted on doing the
extremely dangerous stunts himself and
without a safety net
Ollie had was a harness and a few cables
that were digitally removed in
post-production even so the stunt was so
stressful the director John Woo refused
to watch at one point crews tore a
muscle in his shoulder while jumping 15
feet from one section of rock to another
the final result is a scene so thrilling
it gives us goosebumps number 4 halo
jump Mission Impossible fall out halo
jumps the sequence Tom and I have been
talking about for a number of years this
stunt has been in the back of Tom
Cruise’s mind for years and now that
he’s established himself as Hollywood’s
pre-eminent actor slash stuntman he was
finally able to convince a studio to
allow him to try it a high altitude low
opening or halo jump is used by military
personnel to sneak into a country
undetected and requires them to jump
from a height of 25,000 feet only
opening their parachutes when they
reached 2,000 feet to pull it off Cruz
made over a hundred jumps from a c-17
aircraft supplied by the United Arab
Emirates by successfully accomplishing
this stunt Cruz became the first actor
to do a halo jump on camera we needed
the UAE had they not stepped in we would
not have been able to accomplish the
sequence number three plane sequence The
Mummy
I’m sorry The Mummy may not have hit the
mark with critics but you’d be
hard-pressed to argue that this scene in
which a plane dramatically crashes to
the earth is not worth the price of
admission
initially the scene was supposed to be
filmed using wires and a rotating set
until Tom Cruise stepped in he insisted
that it be shot inside the Vomit Comet a
zero gravity weightlessness simulator
that more than lived up to its name
during filming Judas Judas 64 takes and
a whole lot of puking later and they had
their shot acting in these conditions
must have been brutal but as per usual
number two hanging on to the side of a
plane during takeoff Mission Impossible
rogue nation if something went wrong I
can’t get into the airplane to meet land
that’s how Tom Cruise illustrated just
how hazardous this stunt was during a
behind-the-scenes featurette for rogue
nation and he’s right
this duck was so insane so death-defying
ly dangerous that crews did it eight
times that’s how long it took them to
get the perfect shot as he clings to the
side of the aircraft crews can only
watch as his legs begin to flail about
helplessly overpowered by wind as the
plane ascends to 5,000 feet if you’re
wondering how this didn’t take the top
spot on our list
just wait we’ve got something even
crazier to show you before we unveil our
number-one pick here are some honorable
mentions
number one climbing the Burj Khalifa
Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol
standing 2722 feet tall the Burj Khalifa
in Dubai is the world’s tallest
structure so naturally Tom Cruise felt
the need to run climb slide and rappel
down its exterior from hundreds of
floors up while filming Mission
Impossible Ghost Protocol being
suspended over a thousand feet in the
air would make most people cry for their
mamas but behind the scenes footage
shows a totally chilled out cruise
tackling the stunts as if he were part
bird the stunt was deemed so dangerous
that cruises insurance company forbid
him from doing it so he fired him and
hired a new one he has come a long way
since Oprah’s couch do you agree with
our picks check out these other great
clips from WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos every day
got to respect his commitment to his
craft welcome to watchmojo.com and today
we’re counting down our picks for the
top 10 insane Tom Cruise stunts before
we begin we publish new content every
day so be sure to subscribe to our
channel and ring the bell to get
notified about our latest videos for
this list we’re breaking down the most
epic the most badass and the most
dangerous stunts to date in the career
of Tom Cruise number 10 almost getting
stabbed in the eye
[Music]
in this film’s climactic fight scene IMF
agent Ethan Hunt finds himself locked in
a battle to the death with antagonist
Shawn Ambrose after some truly vicious
hand-to-hand combat
Ambrose pulls out a knife and leaps at
Hunt who manages to stop it from turning
his eyeball into a kebab at literally
the last possible second and while
director John Woo wasn’t exactly
thrilled to hear that Cruz wanted to do
the stunt himself he must have been
pleased with the final result which
makes it perfectly clear whose eyeball
is on the line if we are to glean
anything from this scene its but not all
stunts require car chases or explosions
to be considered insane number 9 almost
getting decapitated The Last Samurai to
prepare for his role in The Last Samurai
Tom Cruise underwent multiple months of
martial arts training a fact that is not
hard to discern while watching the film
however something that is hard to see is
that Cruz was almost decapitated when a
mechanical horse malfunctioned the scene
called for Cruz in Japanese actor
Hiroyuki Sanada to charge at each other
on Robo horses with sanada’s horse
stopping at a specific mark to ensure
Cruz’s head remained atop his shoulders
alas the horse must have blown a fuse
because Sanada and more importantly his
sword kept going and when it finally
stopped it was just inches from Cruz’s
in the Jack Reacher novels Reacher is
described as being six five and 250
pounds as such fans were not exactly
thrilled to hear that Tom Cruise who
stands at just five feet seven inches
would play the iconic character in the
cinematic adaptation however crews more
than made up for the height disparity by
performing all of his own driving stunts
in the film’s adrenaline-fueled chase
sequence to call this stunt dangerous
would be a gross understatement as it
not only required crews to pull off a
handful of high speed maneuvers but also
required him to smash into walls and
cars while dodging oncoming traffic
[Applause]
number seven holding his breath for
three minutes underwater Mission
Impossible rogue nation the fifth entry
in the mi franchise may as well have
just been called Mission Impossible Tom
Cruise does a bunch of insane stunts in
order to accurately pull off a single
long take in which Cruise’s character
attempts to steal a secure file from an
underwater vault the action star
straight up learned how to hold his
breath underwater for three minutes as
if that weren’t already mind-boggling
enough stunt coordinator Wade Eastwood
claims that Cruise pushed his own
physical limitations even further
learning to hold his breath for six
whole minutes you know what the jury’s
still out on whether or not cruises part
fish number six hanging on a wire
Minority Report Steven Spielberg’s
syphon waar takes place in a futuristic
world one in which the police can stop
crimes before they’re even committed
Cruz plays John Anderton a pre-crime
officer who goes on the run after being
accused of future murder while being
chased by a group of jetpack sporting
officers cruises character must make a
tough decision take a leap of faith or
be arrested
obviously he goes for the former and to
pull it off Cruise was suspended with
the help of an 80-foot rig and dropped
at high speed towards another stuntman
with the help of more than a miles worth
of cables Cruz was dropped then dragged
across a massive soundstage that must
have hurt number 5 rock climbing Mission
how do you reintroduce a character like
Ethan Hunt to film goers after a
four-year absence by having him free
climb a section of Deadhorse Point State
Park of course despite the concerns of
the studio crews insisted on doing the
extremely dangerous stunts himself and
without a safety net
Ollie had was a harness and a few cables
that were digitally removed in
post-production even so the stunt was so
stressful the director John Woo refused
to watch at one point crews tore a
muscle in his shoulder while jumping 15
feet from one section of rock to another
the final result is a scene so thrilling
it gives us goosebumps number 4 halo
jump Mission Impossible fall out halo
jumps the sequence Tom and I have been
talking about for a number of years this
stunt has been in the back of Tom
Cruise’s mind for years and now that
he’s established himself as Hollywood’s
pre-eminent actor slash stuntman he was
finally able to convince a studio to
allow him to try it a high altitude low
opening or halo jump is used by military
personnel to sneak into a country
undetected and requires them to jump
from a height of 25,000 feet only
opening their parachutes when they
reached 2,000 feet to pull it off Cruz
made over a hundred jumps from a c-17
aircraft supplied by the United Arab
Emirates by successfully accomplishing
this stunt Cruz became the first actor
to do a halo jump on camera we needed
the UAE had they not stepped in we would
not have been able to accomplish the
sequence number three plane sequence The
Mummy
I’m sorry The Mummy may not have hit the
mark with critics but you’d be
hard-pressed to argue that this scene in
which a plane dramatically crashes to
the earth is not worth the price of
admission
initially the scene was supposed to be
filmed using wires and a rotating set
until Tom Cruise stepped in he insisted
that it be shot inside the Vomit Comet a
zero gravity weightlessness simulator
that more than lived up to its name
during filming Judas Judas 64 takes and
a whole lot of puking later and they had
their shot acting in these conditions
must have been brutal but as per usual
number two hanging on to the side of a
plane during takeoff Mission Impossible
rogue nation if something went wrong I
can’t get into the airplane to meet land
that’s how Tom Cruise illustrated just
how hazardous this stunt was during a
behind-the-scenes featurette for rogue
nation and he’s right
this duck was so insane so death-defying
ly dangerous that crews did it eight
times that’s how long it took them to
get the perfect shot as he clings to the
side of the aircraft crews can only
watch as his legs begin to flail about
helplessly overpowered by wind as the
plane ascends to 5,000 feet if you’re
wondering how this didn’t take the top
spot on our list
just wait we’ve got something even
crazier to show you before we unveil our
number-one pick here are some honorable
mentions
number one climbing the Burj Khalifa
Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol
standing 2722 feet tall the Burj Khalifa
in Dubai is the world’s tallest
structure so naturally Tom Cruise felt
the need to run climb slide and rappel
down its exterior from hundreds of
floors up while filming Mission
Impossible Ghost Protocol being
suspended over a thousand feet in the
air would make most people cry for their
mamas but behind the scenes footage
shows a totally chilled out cruise
tackling the stunts as if he were part
bird the stunt was deemed so dangerous
that cruises insurance company forbid
him from doing it so he fired him and
hired a new one he has come a long way
since Oprah’s couch do you agree with
our picks check out these other great
clips from WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos every day
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