Tom Cruise and stunts go together like peanut butter and jelly, and it’s been that way for a long time. This effective combination has been shown off best in the Mission: Impossible movies, where we’ve seen the Ethan Hunt actor do things like climbing the world’s tallest building and hanging off the side of an airplane taking off (that one scares his late mother), and naturally there’s more to come in Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One. With just a few more week’s left to go until its arrival, a video has been released highlighting one of the 2023 new movie release’s major stunts, Cruise’s incredible “speed flying,” and hopefully those of you who watch aren’t scared of heights.
Even by Tom Cruise standards, speed flying is an especially intense thing to go through, because as writer/director Christopher McQuarrie lays out at the beginning of this featurette released by Paramount Pictures, this is one of the most dangerous sports in the world. Because while the more conventional skydiving is “fairly predictable,” speed flying is “incredibly unpredictable.” See for yourself:
