6 Best Mission: Impossible Action Sequences, Ranked By Greatness — cinemablend.com

Each new films array of increasingly audacious action scenes means that the bar continues to be raised for each additional instalment, though. And looking back at Mission: Impossible’s impressive collection of action scenes from its past proves that Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation will have to go a long way to topple them. But which sequences are really the best of the best? Read on to find out! One of the film’s unique and most enthralling blockbuster action moments comes after several members of Ethan Hunt’s ( Tom Cruise) IMF team have been killed in Prague. After meeting with IMF director Eugene Kittridge (Henry Czerny) in a glass-walled restaurant, Hunt is accused of being a mole. But he manages to escape after creating one hell of a distraction: blowing up a huge lobster tank with an explosive piece of chewing gum. Cruise began a legacy of doing stunts himself after director Brian De Palma insisted the sequence didn’t work with a stuntman, and De Palma increased tension through his various use of dutch angles. And Danny Elfman’s score is deliciously uneasy too.

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