At this level, Tom Cruise is well-known for doing as lots of his personal stunts as doable, regardless of how harmful they’re or pointless they appear to be. But that doesn’t make it any much less spectacular studying how a lot work and care goes into these stunts/retaining Cruise alive, as this behind-the-scenes have a look at Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning reveals, because the actor repeatedly drives a motorbike off a large cliff, after which turns it right into a base-jump.

So, after I first noticed this video, I instantly considered the opening scene of GoldenEye, through which James Bond not solely drives a motorbike off a cliff, however free falls to catch up and enter a plummeting airplane. It sounds rather more spectacular than simply pulling a parachute, however then I watched it again and realized the particular results had been maybe not as spectacular as I recalled. Certainly, Pierce Brosnan by no means did any of this insanity:

Why does Tom Cruise always endanger himself for these Mission: Impossible films when all of this may very well be so simply replicated with particular results? Well, as a result of he’s a loopy individual, but additionally as a result of it’s nice publicity. I positive as hell am extra interested by watching Dead Reckoning when it premieres July 14 after seeing Cruise do all this nonsense.

[Via Variety]

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