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By George Robbins

The ‘Mission: Impossible’ franchise is one that has strongly affected action movies as time has gone on and it has earned its place in pop culture since its original inception in 1996 with the first ‘Mission: Impossible.’ While not every movie in the franchise is one that will be fondly remembered by the public, it is no doubt impressive that they are now working on a seventh film in the franchise because not every franchise is so lucky. After all, they managed to make an incredible start with the series and while there was a dip by the third film in popularity, they managed to turn that around. They actually made a complete U-turn and made films that have had a steady stream of viewers that have nothing but good things to say about the films. While there are undoubtedly a lot of people who have something to say about the film, there are more people who have liked everything they have seen done with the films.

With any action film out there, especially spy-action films, there are a lot of faults to be found solely because there is only so much that can be done with those films to make them interesting. Following that formula, there is a lot that happens to repeat itself in the movies that really can’t be controlled because tropes exist for a reason and they have managed to make them work. The Mission: Impossible’ franchise manages to set itself apart from any other form of spy movies solely because, in most people’s minds, it is heavily action focused. The action focus of the franchise has actually helped to make it a film that differentiates itself from other films in both the action and spy movie genres. Most of this can be attributed almost entirely to the fact that Tom Cruise is an absolute madman.

Tom Cruise is well known throughout pretty much every single community as perhaps the most pervasive action actor on the market. He appears in some of the biggest and most popular action films out there and he is the reason the ‘Mission: Impossible’ films easily remain at the top of action movie lists. Despite being mainly spy movies, they focus much more on the action side of things and Tom Cruise brings out that aspect of things with his stunts that he does for the films. While many people who are working on films usually have stunt folks working for them that do their stunts, Cruise instead does his own stunts. While this is certainly not the norm, some actors do this because they enjoy actually doing the stunts themselves. The difference between those actors and Cruise is the fact that Cruise goes just that little step further and he does things some stuntmen won’t even do.

Stuntmen will do whatever stunt is necessary for the movie they are working on, but there are limits to what they can do as people in general. There are a lot of stunts for movies that, if done wrong, could result in serious injury or death which is why stuntmen are important. Cruise takes that and throws it out of the window when he does his stunts and, while it certainly makes the final cut of the movie interesting for the public to watch, Cruise is certainly at risk. This has been made all the more apparent by Cruise’s co-star Simon Pegg who has said the it can be terrifying seeing him work on his death-defying stunts on set. Considering that Cruise is now willing to take his stunts to space, it shouldn’t be much of a surprise that he is doing all of these crazy stunts now.