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  • 6/8/2025
In Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Tom Cruise takes on a stunt that looks physically impossible — and lands it with pinpoint precision. This gravity-defying moment wasn’t done with wires or visual effects, but with pure training, timing, and Cruise’s trademark commitment to realism. It’s one of those blink-and-you’ll-miss-it scenes that reminds you why he’s in a league of his own.
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00:00We're going to go 10,000, but if we can get 12,000, we'll go 20 knots forward.
00:09What I'd like to do is accelerate the next jump, and I'd like to kind of do it as quickly as
00:14possible the next one, and I'll build up to it, go faster, faster, faster, and put myself
00:18into a worst-case scenario, and how fast does it take me to recover, which all of these
00:23cases are recoverable.
00:26Here, let's put this on, please.
00:27I'm going to check the frame again.
00:30That's my hand position.
00:32Hand position is good.
00:33There you go.
00:34You can even hold it a little lower there.
00:35I just know I'm going to be like this.
00:37Okay.
00:38If I have to be, I'll be like this.
00:39That's better.
00:41It gives you a lot more margin for error.
00:42Let's talk about safety.
00:44We do the same exit.
00:45I'll be in an accelerated spin.
00:47Really, what do we want to see in this frame?
00:48We want to see me falling, and then I throw it.
00:51It's like, hold.
00:52Okay, let's do it, guys.
00:57Okay, three, two, one, go!

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