Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is a high-stakes, stunt-filled adventure that reaffirms Tom Cruise‘s commitment to challenge and push himself to pull off the perfect action shot. The eighth and presumed final installment in the long-running franchise features some of the actor’s most ambitious stunts yet, including one that left him so exhausted that he had to be carried away by the crew and another that saw him leaping out of a helicopter multiple times while strapped to a fuel-soaked parachute set ablaze midair.
The death-defying dive during Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning‘s climactic plane sequence has earned Cruise the Guinness World Record for the “most burning parachute jumps by an individual,” as the actor performed the insane aerial stunt a total of 16 times. The jump alone would have been daring enough for some, but Cruise was attached to a parachute that would catch fire, spinning him into free fall until he deployed his reserve parachute, which he left to the very last second to ensure that barely anything remained of the burnt chute.
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Cruise shared behind-the-scenes footage (seen below) of the now record-breaking stunt in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning to provide some further insight into the process behind it. “If this is twisted while it’s burning, I’m going to be spinning and burnt. I have to kick out of the twist and then ignite in 10 seconds,” he explains to the crew in the video, which shows them preparing for the sequence. Before making one of the 16 jumps, he adds, “We’re going to be real smart. I’m not saying be risky. We don’t take risks, obviously.”
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