Directed by Tony Scott. Watch The Beaches Of Agnes Online Fandango. With Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid. A young hotshot stock car driver gets his chance to compete at the top level. Dangerous Movie Stunts Tom Cruise Actually Performed. Old school action heroes made men strive to be manlier. Think Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Willis, and Harrison Ford. If we didnt believe they were actually jumping off buildings or ziplining between airliners, we trusted they had the mental and physical constitution to do it. Then came Tom Cruise, one of the last in a dying breed of genuine movie stars who actually fulfilled the demands of the script. Most actors would immediately dial their agents if they read, Jimmy jumps off a cliff in Act 2, but not Tom Cruise. Time and time again, he has put his life on the cinematic line. He does this for one reason alone to shake audiences out of their banality. In a business of smoke and mirrors, Tom Cruise continues to be a bona fide action hero in Hollywoods sea of faux action idols. From climbing sheer rock faces, running around skyscraper exteriors, to strapping himself on sky bound cargo planes, Tom Cruise makes a compelling case for renaming CGI altogether Cruise Generated Imagery. Here is our list of the 1. Best Movie Stunts Tom Cruise Performed Himself Motorcycle Chase Knight and Day. Speed 2: Cruise Control Full Movie Part 1' title='Speed 2: Cruise Control Full Movie Part 1' />When you daydream about stunts in daily life, you must have a few double helixes from Evel Knievels DNA. While in pre production for Knight and Day, Cruise thought of executing a motorcycle stunt that required Cameron Diaz to flip around on it mid ride while soaring through the narrow streets of Seville, pull out two guns loaded with flash blanks, and empty both clips into the pursuing vehicles. Throw in some raging bulls for extra flavor, and you have the makings of one memorable scene. When Cruises vision of the stunt ended, he called director James Mangold and made the pitch. You can check out the final result of Cruises idea  HERE. Car Chase Jack Reacher. The ultimate news source for music, celebrity, entertainment, movies, and current events on the web. It039s pop culture on steroids. A coterie of semiautonomous products are set to hit the road in the coming months, with General Motors ahead of the pack, introducing its Super Cruise feature in the. The latest travel information, deals, guides and reviews from USA TODAY Travel. For every drift, gear shift and hub smash in this scene, there is a steady push in shot on Tom Cruises chiseled and focused face. The camerawork is as nimble as. Jack Reacher himself, following his every move as he slides around in a muscle car of vintage glory. Speed 2: Cruise Control Full Movie Part 1' title='Speed 2: Cruise Control Full Movie Part 1' />This scene is straight out of Bullitt, letting the cars do the talking while the characters internalize their angst. Its a stick shift kind of vocabulary. Cruise himself gets pretty banged up, as he sequestered his stunt driver to play Gran Turismo in the make up trailer while he did all the driving scenes himself. This includes weaving through oncoming traffic, smashing into walls, cars and water barrels, while generally treating his blood red 1. Chevelle SS like a bumper car. The most quiet moment of the chase might also be the most memorable, when Cruise steps out of his busted red Chevelle and takes refuge among the locals waiting at a bus stop, not one of whom gives him up to the police. You can see Tom Cruises Bullitt inspired Pittsburgh car chase  HERE. Shootout Collateral. Perhaps Tom Cruises biggest stunt was deciding to play a villain. The silver hair and gray hit man suit help turn the Risky Business charmer into a ruthless killing machine. In one of Michael Manns greatest films, Tom gets out of his Ethan Hunt cruise control and switches to manual overdrive as Vincent. Collateral will hold you in its vise like grip until the credits roll, but the club scene in particular is worth a watch. Mann and Cruise rehearsed this lengthy sequence for weeks, knowing it showcased Vincents brutality as he steadily dismantles an entire security squad. Beyond the stabbing, neck twisting and gunplay, Cruises floor bound barrel roll leaves quite the impression. You can watch Michael Manns clinically executed club shootout HERE. Rock Climbing Mission Impossible 2. Brian de Palmas franchise launching film was a game changer for the action genre, but in comparison to its sequels, Mission Impossible was a fairly modest film. For a series that rivals The Fast and the Furious in the ridiculous action department, Ethan Hunts debut showed a somewhat modest and eager agent earning his stripes. Simply put Tom Cruise wore bifocals in much of the film. That all changed in 2. John Woos follow up, Mission Impossible 2. The film opens with Cruise dangling from a vertical cliff, the sound of his breath playing louder than the soundtrack. Just as the audience has started to accept the sheer insanity of Mr. Hunt, he completely loses his mind and decides to jump from his precarious perch to an even lower part of the rock. Call it base jumping without a chute or a prayer of surviving. When he surprise botches the landing and slides down the red rock face, staring death in the eye, his right hand magically finds a crevice in the rock and he survives. Except for the jump and the rocky Slip N Slide, Cruise did every bit of the stunt work, even completing the Christ like hang as he held himself up with both arms Woo is a devout Lutheran and includes a Crucifix composed shot in each of his films. This stunt arguably initiated Cruises obsession to outdo himself with open air stunts. Tom Cruises dangerous rock climbing can be seen HERE. Runnin and Jumpin Edge of TomorrowLive, Die, Repeat became the slogan for marketing Edge of Tomorrow, but it seems equally descriptive of Cruises stunt bound existence. The pulsating action in director Doug Limans 2. Tom Cruise and Emily Blunts commitment to performing their own stunts. Running and jumping, flying and falling, amidst flamethrowers, gunplay and rocket launchers seems like an adolescent boys dream, and in looking at the behind the scenes footage, it looks like Cruise had a ball. Even if Edge of Tomorrow underwhelmed at the box office, it earned Cruise some of his best reviews in years, even though he almost died while riding shotgun in Emily Blunts stunt car. Check out some behind the scenes footage of the film HERE. Samurai Swords The Last Samurai. Tom Cruise rarely loses his cool, but in Ed Zwicks film about the dying Japanese warrior culture, he almost lost his head. The Last Samuraicould have been his careers swansong. As the story goes, Tom Cruise who reportedly underwent samurai and martial arts training for more than half a year rode a mechanical horse towards co star Hiroyki Sanada. The Japanese actors horse was designed to stop on its mark but traveled an extra foot, sending Sanadas sword just an inch from Cruises neck. As he later reflected in press junkets, Cruise executed full length sword play fights that had over 7. Such is the dedication of Hollywoods most bankable action star. You can see Tom Cruises behind the scenes preparation for these samurai fights HERE. Fish Tank Mission Impossible. If the virtue of a protagonist is augmented by the deviousness of his villain, therein lies the successful formula of Mission Impossible. Henry Czernys Eugene Kittridge is such a WASPy punk that you cant help but yearn for his demise. We dont quite get that in the fish tank scene, but we are introduced to Ethan Hunts cunning, his signature MACH 5 running face, and the explosion of a massive amount of water not to mention fish. Check out the scene for yourself consisting of Tom Cruise completing the stunt entirely on his own, as he blitzes past 1. Watch Current Season Of Project Runway. HERE. Trustfall Mission Impossible IIIThere were a bevy of stunts in MI3, not least of which was Tom Cruises anointing of J. J. Abrams as the franchises latest leader. Abrams had only played in the TV sandbox, but thanks to Cruises fascination with Alias, he cut the queue and landed MI3 as his first directorial feature. This put J. J. Abrams in the hotseat, watching Tom Cruise risk life and limb in a medley of stunts. A seemingly simple yet terrifying sequence had Cruise barrel roll off the Vaticans garden wall, suspended by a thin cable the seeming trademark of the series designed to tighten an inch before hitting the ground. Abrams and Cruise rehearsed the scene several ways, trying to find the right speed to optimize the stunt.