Team Ethan Hunt is back together. This time, the heroes of “Mission: Impossible” will have to correct the consequences of a mistake made in Berlin: the hero saved a member of his team, which put all of humanity under threat. Tom Cruise trained for a year to perform all his own stunts on set, where he often fell painfully.
The artist has filmed a variety of stunts over the years, but perhaps the most impressive is the one he does most consistently: running.
Rotten Tomatoes counted how far Cruise has run throughout his nearly 40-year career and correlated those distances with the ratings of each of his films.
The data shows that Cruise’s films in which he runs more than 300 meters have a 71% higher average Totameter Score than films in which he runs less or no running at all.
To illustrate, let us recall the films “The Firm” (1992), “Minority Report” (2002), “War of the Worlds” (2005), “Mission: Impossible III” (2006), “Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol” (2011), “The Edge” Tomorrow (2014), Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015), Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016) and The Mummy (2017).
Rotten Tomatoes also found that the 56-year-old star doesn’t appear to have aged since 1986. He ran 3,212 feet in Mission: Impossible III in 2006, which is almost equal to the 3,299 feet he ran over twelve films in the ’80s.