10 Greatest Ever Tom Cruise Running Scenes

5. Vanilla Sky

Mission Impossible Fallout
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Known as the 'million dollar shot', Vanilla Sky's signature moment sees Tom Cruise sprinting through an empty Times Square wondering just where the hell everybody is.

It's a great way to open the movie and get the audience hooked from the offset, but Cameron Crowe's mind-bender would ultimately fail to hold many people's attention all the way through to the end.

There's no denying the scene's effectiveness, as having a big star like Cruise running through one of the world's most iconic locations is a memorable visual in itself, but there were also plenty of critics who accused the project of being nothing more than a vanity project for its star.

Even if it was, and somebody told you that you could have the whole of Times Square to yourself for a morning joke, there's no chance that anybody in their right mind would turn it down.

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