Words Aaron Potter

Hot on the heels of blowing up the box office and saving cinema with Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise is back in action and teaming up with Christopher McQuarrie for their third Mission: Impossible.

Both have already made clear intentions to amp things up even higher than Fallout by taking to the streets of Italy, the UK, and other locations around the world to achieve new levels of action filmmaking.

How do you go bigger than scaling the tallest building in the world, holding onto the outside of a plane during take-off, or HALO-jumping from twenty-five thousand feet up? Well, with one of the most dangerous stunts in cinema history. While plot details remain strictly confidential, we know that the mission to stop a terrifying new weapon from falling into the wrong hands will be Ethan Hunt’s most dangerous mission yet and centre on his most death-defying stunt yet. Among its epic set pieces, one sees Ethan ride a motorcycle to base jump off of a cliff, wingsuit eye-wateringly close to its face, before parachuting to safety. Achieving the perfect shot took six takes, proving nobody is more dedicated than Cruise to delivering the white-knuckle action that keeps you on the edge of your seat.

Alongside returning series stalwarts Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, and Ving Rhames are Fallout’s Vanessa Kirby and newcomers Pom Klementieff and Hayley Atwell, the latter of which McQuarrie describes as a destructive force of nature. Has Ethan finally met his match? We would say it’s impossible, but he doesn’t know the meaning of the word.

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Harley Davidsons have never looked cooler than when Arnold Schwarzenegger uses one to catch up with John Connor as he’s being pursued by Robert Patrick’s menacing T-1000. Arnie’s model is old, but not obsolete.

The Matrix Reloaded

The midpoint of the second Matrix movie culminates in a thrilling motorcycle chase sequence on a highway, where Trinity bobs and weaves in between traffic at insane speed to outrun agents and save The Keymaker.

The Dark Knight

Just when you thought nothing could top the Tumbler sequence from Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan equips Christian Bale’s caped crusader with a Batpod that’s got an otherworldly level of manoeuvrability to wipe the smile from Joker’s face.