10 Ways The Mission Impossible Movies Keep Getting Better
9. The Increasingly Insane Stunts
When going into production on Rogue Nation, Tom Cruise insisted he had to top the Burj Khalifa sequence from Ghost Protocol. Yeah, good luck, man. How the hell are you going to top one of the tensest movie scenes of this decade, filmed on a building that's nearly 3,000 feet tall?
How about one on a plane 5,000 feet in the air? The desire of Cruise and the filmmakers to continue topping themselves has lead to some unbelievable stunts in these past few movies, nearly all of which are created practically. You're actually watching Tom Cruise hang off a freaking plane, and you can feel the danger as a result. Suddenly, dropping from a cable to hack a computer seems like child's play.
That isn't even the best sequence in the movie, either. How crazy is that? This is a film that opens with a stunt on a plane as it takes off, and it proceeds to top itself from there. Most sequels are comfortable just recycling the same thing as the last one, but not Mission: Impossible. By continuing to impress with increasingly dangerous, practical stunts, this series still dazzles all these years later, and in fact the stunts are getting more insane every time.