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LOS ANGELES – Actor Tom Cruise has a signature running style, which has been seen in many of his movies, and he is happy to poke fun at it.

To celebrate Global Running Day on Wednesday, the movie star shared an animated GIF of him running in the upcoming seventh Mission: Impossible movie.

In the Twitter clip, he is seen sprinting, his arms pumping furiously, as he zipped down a red carpet lined with candles. Within nine hours, his post had been viewed 2.3 million times.

He also shared the clip on Instagram Stories.

“Running in Mission: Impossible movies since 1996,” he wrote in the caption, referring to the first movie in which he appeared as covert agent Ethan Hunt.

The wildly successful movie franchise, in which Cruise is known to do some daredevil stunts, is set to end with the seventh and eighth films. The final two films make up Dead Reckoning, with Part One out in July and Part Two in June 2024.

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He also tagged on in his Twitter and Instagram bios that he has been “running in movies since 1981”.

The 60-year-old actor made his first movie appearances in Taps and Endless Love in 1981, before finding fame in 1983’s Risky Business and 1986’s Top Gun.

Running in #MissionImpossible movies since 1996. #GlobalRunningDay pic.twitter.com/woQKYQ20ia — Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) June 7, 2023

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The Mission: Impossible   series is equal parts awesome action film series and Tom Cruise testing the limits of his physicality. Each title sees him trying insane stunts, whether it be climbing the world's tallest building, hanging from the side of a plane, or performing a halo jump.

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Because of the actor's personality and status, it is incredibly easy to endearingly poke fun at the star and the series. On the Internet, these typically manifest as memes, the following ten of which are the best of the best. Some of them are about Cruise, while others joke about the franchise.

When You Gotta Go.....

When nature calls, the dirtiest of bathrooms will have to suffice. Even still, one is as careful and deliberate as possible when doing the deed. Several techniques exist when using a dirty gas station bathroom.

Some people hover, others lay toilet paper all over the seat. At the end of the day, though, the seat is usually the cleanest part of a bathroom. The flushing handle and air driers carry the most bacteria, and avoiding germs is only a small part of the battle. A strong immune system is the best defense against unseemly public restrooms.

Wasn't Cut Out For The Job

This classic picture has been repurposed for just about every pop culture franchise imaginable. It was only a matter of time before someone made a Mission: Impossible meme out of it. Working for the IMF is dangerous, thankless work.

Related: 10 Most Badass Mission: Impossible Characters, Ranked

Most agents end up dying in the field. A select few, however, bite the bullet from a self-destructing tape. How they managed to pass all the tests and then forget to get some distance before the agency's method of communication blows up is beyond us, but we suppose some just weren't cut out for the job.

Coolest Random Coat Ever

This iconic garment was ubiquitous when Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol came out. In the movie, Ethan pilfered a random coat while on the run. It just so happens to match his style perfectly. When off the grid, people usually don't have the luxury of choice in fashion, but some still make it a top priority.

What's the point in clearing one's name if they can't do it in style?

The Tech Has Since Improved

Some of the IMF's methods seem outdated, but they used to be even more archaic. For example, instead of tapes erupting into smoke, cats used to come by and rip them to shreds. They were the perfect beasts for the job since they didn't need to be told why they should destroy their tapes; it is just in their nature to play with stringy objects.

If they were caught and interrogated, they couldn't give up the information if they wanted to. Now it's sad to think of all the cats who gave their lives in the line of duty.

A Movie Has To Pay For Itself Somehow

Studio backing and surefire box office returns aren't always enough to fund a movie. Sometimes, they need some extra bucks in the form of product placement. A large amount of the audience bemoans this at any level, but it's made worse when the movie hides it poorly.

Shots can sometimes dwell on the logo for a painfully long time. This series had a deal with BMW to get their cars prominently featured in the globe-trotting adventure. They're going to be using cars anyway; might as well get some cash while they're at it.

Two Jobs At Once

Justice League is infamous for a lot of things, not the least of which is the laughably bad CGI removing Henry Cavill's mustache during reshoots. The actor grew the facial hair for his role in Mission: Impossible - Fallout when the unexpected reshoots for the superhero movie occurred.

He couldn't just remove his new whiskers, so they were taken out in post-production. The result is less than stellar. Movie magic can convince people of a lot of things, but removing a mustache is not one of them.

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Of all the domesticated animals, cats are the wildest and most agile. When they want to reach something, they will always find a way, walking the thinnest lines and making the most unbelievable leaps in the name of food or a good vantage point.

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If only felines cared about important things like national security and neutralizing terrorist threats, then the world would forever be a safe place. That can never be, however, because cats are infamously selfish creatures unconcerned with anything but their own self-interests.

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Making fun of someone's height is never cool. Short males, in particular, have a hard time in this world. How many times have conversations about dating and attractiveness ended up with people saying one needs to be a certain height?

In Tom Cruise's case, however, it's less about making fun of his stature, and more about the extreme lengths that studios go to hide the fact. Besides, he is one of the most famous actors to ever exist, so some meme making a jab at his height won't affect his celebrity status.

No Running!?

No running in a modern Tom Cruise movie is like a Bond movie without a gun barrel opening or a theme song. The mere thought sends one recoiling in disgust. Constant running is just one way the actor proves his impressive physical prowess. No one faults him for showing off his physical abilities, either.

Anyone who can still run and jump like him at fifty-seven years old would be leaping until the cows come home too. It will just get weird if he ever starts doing more low-key, subdued dramas again. Born on the Fourth of July would be a very different movie if he starred in it today.

The iconic theme works in many real-life situations. Kittens, in particular, are a well of opportunity for this catchy tune. In their childhood, cats love to play fight with each other, often sneaking around for and waiting for an opportune moment to strike at their siblings. This is all just practice for adulthood where they hunt real prey.

Like athletes pumping heavy metal with hip hop running through their headphones during an intense workout, listening to Lalo Schifrin's legendary composition is sure to put someone into a stealthy mood.

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Tom Cruise’s Best Running Scenes in Movies, Ranked

Tom Cruise’s love for running is the subject of memes, video essays, and ESPN articles. Here are his best running scenes in movies, ranked.

It’s a running joke in Hollywood and one that is well-known among cinema audiences — Tom Cruise loves to run, and he does it exceptionally well. It’s one of those odd things that make it as a popular meme, but with zero exaggeration of the facts. His love of running has received commentary from ESPN and measured against box office success by Rotten Tomatoes . A YouTube video titled "Every Tom Cruise Run. Ever.," which compiles nearly 19 minutes of the actor’s running scenes across various movies, actually has 2 million views garnered across the past six years.

With his relentless pursuit of excellence and love for daring stunts, Cruise has become a rare brand in modern-day Hollywood, often being called the last movie star. He knows what the audience expects of him, and seeks to deliver it to great satisfaction in every movie. And his unique run is simply indispensable in every movie he’s in — his chest blown-out, straight-backed, straight-palmed run that seems to model itself perfectly around the kind of role he’s doing. Ranking his running scenes across different movies makes pure cinematic sense. So, here are 10 of Tom Cruise’s best running scenes, ranked.

10 Making an Arrest — Minority Report

Minority Report has built a reputation as one of the classic sci-fi movies of the early-2000s . But as far as Cruise’s brand as an on-screen sprinter goes, the movie is also the best possible exhibit of this strange Hollywood phenomenon. The movie features Cruise as a futuristic police officer on the run from his own team. The very plot of the movie gives it an above-average potential for running scenes, and the movie utilizes much of it. But the best scene featuring Cruise running is near the beginning, when he runs across a street to the first-floor bedroom of a house in record time to stop a murder. Despite many cuts, the scene perfectly captures the unique kinetic energy of Cruise’s run.

9 Dream Run — Vanilla Sky

It is one thing to simply have good running form, but Cruise’s run is firmly established as a meme given that he tends to run even in non-action drama movies. Vanilla Sky has garnered a cult following as a psychological thriller , and stars Cruise as a wealthy socialite. But the movie still manages to start out with a scene of him running — the scene is famous for taking place in a fully deserted Times Square, and is set as a dream sequence in the movie. The great thing about this scene is that it makes complete sense, establishing a state of disoriented paranoia for Cruise’s character.

8 Samurai Assault — The Last Samurai

The Last Samurai is a rare achievement for Hollywood as a western-made samurai movie that stays true to the feel and themes of the original Japanese samurai movies. Cruise takes the role of a disillusioned war veteran in the movie, observing the final days of the samurai tradition during the Meiji Restoration of 19th Century. The movie’s climax involves a last stand by a group of samurai warriors against the modernized Imperial army. Dressed in full samurai garb, Cruise doesn’t get quite the opportunity to display his signature run during the assault. However, it is a fitting high point for the movie as the samurai warriors run towards the Imperial soldiers with a rousing battle cry.

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7 The First Attack — War of the Worlds

Cruise’s running scenes aren’t just noted for their exceptional form — as noted by ESPN , they’re also a testament to his professionalism and skills as an actor. He has consistently proven that he can do everything that an actor is required to do while running at lightning speeds, take after take. Not just that, but based on his role, his run is also a versatile tool of expression. In War of the Worlds , Cruise’s character finds himself in the middle of a sudden attack by powerful aliens on earth. It’s a greatly involving scene that finds Cruise running helter-skelter for his life through the city streets as people are getting vaporized left and right. Given the nature of the scene, his gait appears quite topsy-turvy — and fittingly so.

6 Twilight Rooftop Run — Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

You simply can’t have a big-budget spy action movie without a rooftop chase. One wonders how much Cruise and the Mission Impossible franchise have to do with this mandatory genre convention. The popular movie series has altogether too many rooftop chase scenes for a single franchise. But nobody can dispute that Mission Impossible does it quite well. A memorable scene in this category takes place during Rogue Nation , featuring Cruise and Rebecca Ferguson running across a picturesque backdrop dressed in full James Bond uniform. The romantic undertones of this scene are undeniable, and it’s a point of praise that the movie manages to pull it off during a running scene.

5 Running Through Shanghai — Mission: Impossible III

This particular sprint by Cruise stands out with its abject velocity. It is commonly known among Tom Cruise fans that he regularly has to slow down when running alongside other co-stars. This scene in Mission: Impossible III sees him run full-tilt across a crowded market corridor in Shanghai, and it captures the utter ferocity of Cruise’s run — one of its important qualities! It starts off with a gorgeous tracking shot that follows Ethan Hunt nimbly step down from a series of brick-tiled roofs and shoot through the corridor while screaming in a foreign language. It’s an underrated moment that perfectly displays Cruise’s dedication to the craft.

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4 Overhead Bridge Run — Collateral

Collateral is one of Cruise’s most unique and memorable performances. Directed by Michael Mann, Cruise stars in the movie as a cold, highly proficient assassin who lands in Los Angeles for a night to do a job. The movie was praised for its neo-noir tones, and Cruise’s performance played a part in its overall success, even earning him an MTV Movie Awards nomination for Best Villain. His signature running style, with the jutted-out chest and stiff palms, stands out as something anomalous to the movie’s urban context. But it adds a feeling of terrifying tenacity to the iconic character, a feeling of predatory determination that is best seen during the overhead bridge scene. As is the general rule, Cruise running doesn’t go to waste in this movie either, and subtly sets him apart as a fundamentally different sort of entity masquerading as a regular person.

3 Rooftop Chase — Mission: Impossible - Fallout

Mission Impossible: Fallout features perhaps the best rooftop chase scene in the entire franchise. Cruise famously broke his ankle while jumping across a building for this scene, and chose to finish the scene with the injury so that the shot would be complete. This rooftop chase features some of the best examples of the sweeping camera angles that are now common in blockbuster spy movies. Cruise starts the sprawling one-pan chase scene against the backdrop of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, giving viewers 360-degree views of gorgeous skylines as it progresses.

2 Vertical Skyscraper Run — Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

The Mission Impossible franchise was also the instrument for Cruise to pull off some of his most daring stunts. One of the iconic stunts from the entire franchise takes place at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in Ghost Protocol , and follows Ethan Hunt on a daring attempt to infiltrate one of the hotel rooms from the outside of the skyscraper. The scene gave audiences the unforgettable visual of Cruise running sideways across the Burj Khalifa. The run takes place at the tail end of a long stunt scene that is already fraught with tension, as Hunt navigates the glass walls of the building with hi-tech Spider-Man-style gloves. It is an all-around excellent stunt sequence that is designed with an entire structure of escalating tensions within it.

1 Running Away from a Sandstorm — Ghost Protocol

This is the scene that encompasses everything Cruise stands for, as an action star. Also taking place in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol , the scene captures Cruise’s signature running gait in a stunning low-angle shot as he runs out of the entrance of a skyscraper while a massive sandstorm begins to consume the building. It is a truly epic shot — the slow pan out revealing the sprawling architecture of the Dubai International Financial Center, with Cruise gradually moving in for a close-up that perfectly synchronizes with the backward movement of the camera.

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'Mission: Impossible 8' Set Images — Tom Cruise Is on the Run

• New Mission: Impossible 8 set images show Tom Cruise running desperately in front of London's Houses of Parliament.
• The movie was previously known as Dead Reckoning: Part Two and involves a significant time jump from the last film.
• Christopher McQuarrie confirmed that Mission: Impossible 8 will conclude the story that began in Dead Reckoning .

Is it a Mission: Impossible movie if Tom Cruise isn't running? Hell, is it a Tom Cruise movie if Tom Cruise isn't running? Well, good news folks, if the latest set images from Mission: Impossible 8 (definitely not the final title) are anything to go by—we're getting some running done and, from the looks of it, Ethan Hunt isn't doing so good. Images posted on Twitter have shown off Cruise in full pelt in front of London's Houses of Parliament, with Big Ben looming large in the background, and looking a little worse for wear, with his shirt bloodied. What has the Entity done this time?

The movie, once known as Dead Reckoning - Part Two , has been back in production for a while in the UK, after the previous installment— Dead Reckoning —shot a large portion of the film in and around the Peak District and Derbyshire area, including an incredible steam train crash which saw the locomotive plummet into a quarry. Given the length of Cruise's hair, too, the film will obviously carry a significant time jump from the last film which will add an air of intrigue to the plot.

What Can We Expect from 'Mission: Impossible 8'?

While the film is no longer titled Part Two , its writer and director Christopher McQuarrie fully believes this is the concluding part of a story that began in Dead Reckoning , as he explained during an interview with Collider's Steve Weintraub at the film's premiere back in July.

"I knew I wanted to expand the cast, and I knew I wanted to give each one of those characters more to do, so I knew the movie was going to be bigger and longer than Fallout [ the previous movie]. And at which point I said, 'Why are we fighting this? Why are we going to try to jam this into two hours? Let's just break it in half and make it two movies.' That really was the rationale behind it being a two-part movie. It just it wasn't just that the story was bigger but that we wanted more emotion in the movie. At that time, the studio were actually very genuinely excited about it. And, you know, I think we were excited about it too. And then there were times when we were on set, and Tom would look at me, and he'd say, 'This was your idea. Just remember that.'”

The eighth film in the Mission: Impossible series is set to release in May 2025. Stay tuned to Collider for updates and check out Cruise's speedy retreat in video form below:

Mission: Impossible 8

Release Date May 23, 2025

Director Christopher McQuarrie

Cast Greg Tarzan Davis, Mariela Garriga, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Shea Whigham, Simon Pegg, Hayley Atwell, Hannah Waddingham, Janet McTeer, Charles Parnell, Esai Morales, Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Kirby, Nick Offerman, Mark Gatiss, Holt McCallany

Main Genre Action

Genres Action, Adventure

Writers Erik Jendresen, Christopher McQuarrie

Studio(s) TC Productions, Skydance

Distributor(s) Paramount Pictures

prequel(s) Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning

Franchise(s) Mission: Impossible

The 10 Best Quotes in the Mission: Impossible Movies, Ranked

"Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find the best dialogue from the Mission: Impossible series."

Given how many thrills, stunts, chase sequences, and fight scenes are featured throughout the Mission: Impossible film series, it’s understandable that the dialogue might not be the first thing people think about when reflecting on the (so far) seven movies. And sure, if the series lacked amazing action, the character interactions, over-the-top villainous threats, and various bits of banter might not be enough to carry such a long-running set of films.

But there nevertheless remains good dialogue to be found throughout the Mission: Impossible movies, and its most memorable quotes can serve as more than solid icing to an already delicious and jam-packed cake . Including at least one from every movie in the series so far, the following all rank as some of the best quotes from the Mission: Impossible films, roughly ranked by memorability.

10 “Relax Luther, it's much worse than you think.”

‘mission: impossible’ (1996).

Mission: Impossible was originally a TV series that aired during the late 1960s and early 1970s, with the film series – serving as a reboot – beginning in 1996, helmed by Brian De Palma . It was a key movie in furthering Tom Cruise’s stardom, and while he’d been in some high-profile stuff in the years before Mission: Impossible , it was this series that really solidified him as an action movie star.

The original 1996 movie introduces Cruise’s Ethan Hunt, as well as a handful of side characters who show up in subsequent entries in the series, most notably Ving Rhames' Luther Stickell, the only character (besides Hunt) to be in each movie so far . And Mission: Impossible (1996) works well to establish both Hunt’s rebellious qualities and his dynamic with Luther, casually remarking to him that a plan Luther has doubts about is actually “much worse” than he thinks.

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9 “It's not like any mission is gonna be rougher than the last one, is it?”

‘mission: impossible - ghost protocol’ (2011).

Tempting fate and being dangerously self-aware in the process , Benji ( Simon Pegg ) says this about the IMf’s latest impossible mission in the series’ fourth entry overall, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol . It may indeed mark a point where things get rougher and more difficult for the characters, but the films certainly aren’t rough to watch at this point from a viewer’s perspective.

Indeed, there’s an argument to be made that Ghost Protocol was the best of the Mission: Impossible movies made up until that point, and still stands to this day as one of the best. Cruise started to gain a reputation at this stage in the series for pushing himself particularly hard when it came to the stunts he’d perform, with the entire Burj Khalifa sequence proving particularly memorable and jaw-dropping.

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8 “why won't you just die”, ‘mission: impossible – fallout’ (2018).

The Mission: Impossible series has always felt like Tom Cruise’s, but aforementioned side characters, like Benji and Luther, have had ample opportunities to shine and steal certain scenes. Additionally, the series has been home to some pretty great villains , with Mission: Impossible – Fallout pitting Ethan Hunt against someone who’s more than his equal, physically speaking: August Walker, played by a memorably mustached Henry Cavill .

Walker and Hunt are uneasy allies early on, and then clash after the former’s true intentions are revealed, leading to an amazing action-packed final act that sees them engage in a helicopter chase and a brutal brawl on the side of a cliff. Walker’s frustrations with Hunt’s determination and seeming invulnerability are apparent when he questions the man’s sheer willpower, and indeed, it’s unlikely audiences will see Ethan Hunt die, unless Tom Cruise decides he wants to retire the character and move away from the franchise.

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7 “there was never any physical evidence i had anything to do with that... that... that exceptional piece of work.”.

As mentioned before, the first Mission: Impossible series lays the groundwork for what’s to come in a number of ways, but it should also be qualified that it nevertheless stands out from its sequels in other ways. For one thing, it’s perhaps more of a thriller than an action/adventure movie , with a focus on suspense and tension-building that emphasizes the series’ spy/espionage roots more than any other film.

This does mean that dialogue perhaps plays a more significant role, in some ways, than later films, or it could well be that fewer gunfights and explosions ensure there’s more room, sonically, for dialogue to be heard. Luther certainly gets a chance to shine and establish himself as a key supporting player for the series, denying his involvement in a previous computer hack before, in the same sentence, realizing he’d rather take credit for it.

6 “Join the IMF! See the world! On a monitor. In a closet.”

‘mission: impossible - rogue nation’ (2015).

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation was something of a turning point for the Mission: Impossible series. Though the first four movies had mostly delivered, they’d also all been defined by the fact that each one was helmed by a different director. Rogue Nation was the first time Christopher McQuarrie directed an entry in the series , and he went on to direct the next two (additionally, Rebecca Ferguson’s character, Ilsa Faust, was introduced here, and had a prominent role in the following two movies).

That all means there has been a certain consistency to the series since 2015, but that’s far from a bad thing, with the action sequences arguably getting more impressive while the character dynamics/banter/humor from earlier movies were retained. Benji gets to memorably complain about his status as the team’s tech guy, for example , claiming that things are less of an adventure when he’s reduced to seeing exotic locales “on a monitor” that’s “in a closet.”

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5 “what's done is done when we say it's done.”.

It’s a testament to Tom Cruise that he can convincingly deliver lines that sound ridiculous on paper, yet his conviction makes them sing. Case in point, the kind of nonsensical claim Ethan Hunt drops in Mission: Impossible – Fallout , when another character dares to throw a “what’s done is done” at him. Hunt, being Hunt, retorts: “What's done is done when we say it's done.”

To Ethan Hunt’s credit, he makes good on this boastful remark, saving the world yet again and getting his core team through the events of the film in one piece… well, Alec Baldwin’s Alan Hunley is a casualty, admittedly. But wouldn’t you know it, he’s the one who suggested “what’s done is done.” Never bet against Ethan Hunt, is the moral of the story. Similarly, never doubt Tom Cruise’s ability to sell the most over-the-top of action movie lines .

4 “If anything happens to them, there's no place you and your God will be safe. There's no place that I won't go to kill you. That is written.”

‘mission: impossible - dead reckoning part one’ (2023).

Even though Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One quite surprisingly under-performed at the box office, it was still a great action/thriller movie, and one of the most exciting of the decade so far . Its scale was larger than any previous film, and it found an interesting antagonist for Ethan Hunt and his team to combat: a rogue AI program known as the Entity.

The Entity uses a man named Gabriel to carry out various physical tasks, because Tom Cruise can’t exactly shoot at/punch/kick an AI program . Gabriel’s a worthy adversary, physically and psychologically speaking, taunting Hunt by saying he and his friends aren’t safe, and getting him to reply with a severe: “There's no place that I won't go to kill you” if anything bad were to happen. Of course, bad things do happen, setting the stage for what will likely be an intense showdown/rematch in an upcoming eighth Mission: Impossible movie .

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

3 benji: “easy way to remember: blue is glue.” ethan: “and when it's red” benji: “dead.”.

As mentioned before, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol peaks with the Burj Khalifa scene, particularly the part where Tom Cruise climbs the structure , itself an all-time great action sequence . But this part of the movie also shines because it’s as funny as it is intense, with a ridiculously convoluted series of events leading Ethan Hunt to take part in this dangerous activity, with the whole set-up really being pretty funny.

This is emphasized during an exchange between Hunt and Benji, where the latter tells the former the easiest way to remember how his high-tech gloves – used to scale the Burj Khalifa – work. It’s well-delivered by the actors and economical screen-writing, when you think about it, being a humorous exchange in the moment while also expertly establishing the stakes of the scene to come, naturally making it more intense when things (inevitably) go wrong during Hunt’s daring ascent.

2 “You know, that was the hardest part about having to portray you, grinning like an idiot every fifteen minutes.”

‘mission: impossible ii’ (2000).

A Mission: Impossible movie directed by John Woo might’ve seemed too good to be true, because the closest thing the series has to a weak link is probably Mission: Impossible II . That being said, this follow-up to the original film still isn’t bad, especially when approached with the knowledge that it will be a particularly over-the-top and silly action movie. It’s a movie with its charms , so long as you know what you’re in for.

And even if the movie itself has its flaws, it still sneaks in one of the best and funniest lines in the entire series. Mission: Impossible II’s main villain, Sean Ambrose ( Dougray Scott ), has a pretty savage putdown directed at Ethan Hunt, referencing the rather silly (yet iconic) face masks that are a series staple . Ambrose’s quip about having to continually “grin like an idiot” also feels like it could be a cheeky jab at Tom Cruise himself, who does have a famed/notorious smile in r eal life .

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1 “do you have a wife a girlfriend because if you do, i'm gonna find her. i'm gonna hurt her. i'm gonna make her bleed, and cry, and call out your name. and then i'm gonna find you, and kill you right in front of her.”, ‘mission: impossible iii’ (2006).

For as good as August Walker and the Entity/Gabriel were, the best villain to appear in a Mission: Impossible movie so far is probably Owen Davian, played by the legendary Philip Seymour Hoffman . He’s a force to be reckoned with in the overall pretty solid Mission: Impossible III , elevating the entire film considerably with a level of malice and cruelty that feels somewhat at odds with some of the other villains in the series.

Hoffman plays an arms dealer who clashes with Ethan Hunt in the film, and establishes his hatred for Hunt rather plainly when he threatens to torment, torture, and kill whoever Hunt holds dearest to his heart. If the intention was to take Mission: Impossible III into darker and less campy territory after Mission: Impossible II with a genuinely cruel villain, then this quote demonstrates, unequivocally, a mission accomplished.

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Pom Klementieff asked Tom Cruise to kick her in the stomach for Mission: Impossible fight scene

"I kept telling him to just kick me here," the Guardians of the Galaxy actress recalls to EW, indicating her midsection. "I was squeezing abs... But he wouldn't do it."

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Tom Cruise got strapped to the outside of a plane for 2015's Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and rode a motorbike off a cliff for the latest sequel, Dead Reckoning Part One . But there is at least one thing the Top Gun star won't do in pursuit of on-screen verisimilitude while making the action franchise — kick Pom Klementieff in the stomach.

In the latest Mission: Impossible film, the Guardians of the Galaxy actress plays a highly dangerous character named Paris who is partnered with the movie's main antagonist, Gabriel, played by Esai Morales. During a sequence set in Venice, Paris has a fight with Cruise's super-spy Ethan Hunt and it was while shooting the encounter that Klementieff asked her co-star to give her a kick in the guts for real.

"I kept telling him to just kick me here," the actress recalls to EW, indicating her midsection. "I was squeezing abs. [I said], 'You can just go for it.' He was like 'No, no, no, no, no.' I was like, 'But it's going to help me!' But he wouldn't do it."

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One director Christopher McQuarrie cast Klementieff after seeing her playing Mantis in Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 and describes her character as "very, very, very much a chaotic element in the story. It doesn't matter how deep in the background she is, you're going to be watching her at all times and wondering what she's going to do." The actress herself says that Paris is someone who "destroys everything in her path. She's a rebel, she's a killer, she's extremely skilled and quite lonely too."

Much of the destruction caused by the character takes place in Rome during a sequence in which a Humvee-driving Paris pursues Cruise's Ethan Hunt and Hayley Atwell 's character, who are in a small yellow Fiat. "I had so much fun shooting this scene," says the French actress. "It was so special to be on location in Rome. We were shooting during COVID, so we were very lucky to be here. I was trying to not laugh too much because I was having so much fun in the car following the Fiat."

Klementieff reveals that her character's name is a nod to the Great Paris, the magician-spy played by Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy on the original Mission: Impossible TV show. "When Christopher McQuarrie cast me for the role, he didn't know which name the character would have," she says. "It was cool to name me Paris, me being from France, and then they decided that I would speak French because I speak French in real life."

It is unlikely that Nimoy ever wore anything as eye-catching on the TV show as the looks sported by Klementieff in the movie.

"She's very different style-wise from every other actress in the Mission: Impossible franchise," Klementieff says. "She has a side that's a bit more punk and she doesn't really give a f---. So that was cool."

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One will release in theaters July 12.

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Tom Cruise Rides His Motorcycle Off a Cliff in Action-Packed 'Mission: Impossible 7' Trailer

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One is in theaters July 12.

Tom Cruise undertakes some of his most daring stunts yet in his latest action movie.

On Wednesday, Paramount Pictures released the trailer for Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One , showcasing Cruise's Ethan Hunt as he embarks on his latest mission.

Footage from the trailer previews Hunt's clash with a villain played by Esai Morales during another globe-trotting adventure that threatens the entire Impossible Missions Force team.

The trailer teases Cruise and Morales' fight on top of a moving train, as well as a full look at Cruise's now-famous cliff jump from a motorbike stunt as Ving Rhames ' character Luther warns Hunt not to value saving the rest of the team higher than completing their mission.

"I don't accept that," Hunt says in response to the warning, as the trailer ends with him jumping from a destroyed train car before its falls to a body of water below.

In the new movie — the seventh in the Mission: Impossible franchise and its first entry since 2018 — Hunt and his team are tasked with tracking down "a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands," an official synopsis for the film reads promising, "a deadly race around the globe" throughout the movie.

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"Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission – not even the lives of those he cares about most," the synopsis adds.

Aside from Cruise, Rhames and Morales, the latest Mission: Impossible movie features a large ensemble cast including Hayley Atwell , Simon Pegg , Rebecca Ferguson , Vanessa Kirby , Pom Klementieff, Mariela Garriga, Henry Czerny, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, Frederick Schmidt, Cary Elwes , Mark Gatiss, Indira Varma and Rob Delaney.

The movie is written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, a longtime collaborator of Cruise's who directed the previous two Mission: Impossible films and wrote Top Gun: Maverick . McQuarrie, 54, is also making the upcoming sequel Dead Reckoning Part Two , expected to release in 2024.

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