20 Things You Didn't Know About Mission Impossible 2
10. Cruise Accidently Kicked Scott's Chin
Just after the spine-tingling knife in the scene, Hunt and Ambrose engage in a good all round of who can punch or kick the hardest (spoiler, it's Hunt).
It's a little underwhelming as far as climatic fight scenes go but one cannot criticise the training the two actors went through to learn proper martial arts. However it all went a bit far for one particular shot.
When Cruise went to perform his roundhouse kick, he pulled it off a little too well, accidentally kicking Scott right in the chin. If you slow the footage right down, you can clearly see Scott's overwhelmed reaction, as well as Cruise in complete shock at his mistake.
It's a wonder that all these potentially disastrous stunts were allowed to happen and in fact they wouldn't have, had Cruise not lied to the film's insurers. He told them that a stunt team would be carrying out all major action scenes in order to get permission to do them. Who knows what would have happened had any of them gone wrong.