10 Greatest ‘One Shot’ Scenes In Movie History

To say that Tom Cruise likes dangerous and elaborate stunts is an understatement on a par with saying that Henry Cavill's mustache in this movie caused problems for other films. However, even if you're aware of his fondness for these scenes, it still melts your brain to know that the entire HALO jump scene was done not only by him personally, but without a single stuntman.

The camera starts with Cruise in his plane, then follows him out the door, through the lightning storm, towards his free-falling, unconscious colleague, and finally to mere feet above the ground, all without a single visible cut. In reality, this is three scenes stitched together and took over 100 separate jumps to film, but each and every one of them was performed by Cruise personally.

This made him the first actor in history to perform an actual HALO jump on camera, and is probably the franchise's most insane stunt in a long, long line of insane stunts. They even had to design and procude a mask especially for it, as the standard-issue eupitment for this wouldn't have shown his face.