Tom Cruise has played Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible for almost 30 years. During that time, there hasn’t been a building, mountain, road, or other place on Earth where the actor hasn’t danced with death. Mission Impossible: Death Judgment – Part 1 is the same as the other movies in the spy series.
So far in this season, we’ve followed Hunt’s strange group of friends who don’t have names from Shanghai to Prague to London and back. Many of Tom Cruise’s crazy stunts, which make us wonder if he really wants to die, are done in these kinds of places, where huge swaths of built-up areas are blocked off for a bungee jump or two. Sometimes, movies use “magic” to make nondescript places look like well-known towns and buildings.
In this piece, we’ve put together some of the best places seen in all seven Mission: Impossible movies.
EMBASSY SCENE – MISSION IMPOSSIBLE (1996)
Mission Impossible movies have never been shy, but in 1996, Tom Cruise didn’t go anywhere just because. So, most of what happens in this movie happens in Prague.
The first failed mission in the movie takes place inside an embassy in Prague. This sets off 26 years of hellish energy. The exterior shots were taken at the Liechtenstein Palace, which is one of the most beautiful buildings in the city. The inner shots, on the other hand, were taken at the Národn Muzeum. The city’s Natural History Museum was closed at the time, and it has only been slowly reopening to the public over the past few years. If the inside looks familiar, it’s because it was also used in Casino Royale (2006), which came out 10 years after the first movie.
ROCK CLIMBING SCENE – MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 2 (2000)
Mission Impossible 2 is the perfect example of a bad sequel in a series. Even though it made a lot of money, it was the only bad movie in the series. Even so, there are some beautiful shots of the outside, which would soon become the show’s signature.
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In this second part, Tom Cruise did one of his first dangerous stunts. It was a rock climbing scene that will make you shiver. The actor climbs by himself up a group of red rocks in Utah’s famous Dead Horse Point State Park. Yes, that is Tom Cruise in almost every shot, if you were asking. Even though he was wearing support harnesses that were digitally removed after the fact, the trick is one of the first real examples of the star’s clear need to laugh in the face of death.
Building jump scene – MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3 (2006)
Can a building be called iconic if Tom Cruise doesn’t jump off the top of it? In that case, it would be the Shanghai Bank of China building.
One of the most dangerous things the actor does in Mission Impossible 3 is jump off a building. After the mediocre second movie in the series, in which Cruise is thrown from the top of an 18-meter building by a rope and lands and slides through the windows of the even taller building next door, the Bocom Financial Towers, the series is back to normal with this movie. Yes, it was a great trick, but was it the most dangerous one in the series? Definitely not.
BURJ KHALIFA SCENE – MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL (2011)
When Ghost Protocol broke with tradition to up the stakes, it was said that the fourth movie in the Mission: Impossible series took the series to a higher level. The tape will always be remembered as the one in which Tom Cruise had to climb the world’s biggest building.
Before, during, and after the opening of Ghost Protocol, Tom Cruise was in the news because he climbed Dubai’s Burj Khalifa and then rappelled down it. It’s a sure thing that insurance companies don’t like it.
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL (2011) MUMBAI SCENE
Most people agree that Fallout is the best Mission Impossible movie, and some people even think it’s one of the best action movies ever made.
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The movie takes us from Paris to New Zealand and then back to London, where Tom Cruise and Henry Cavill chase each other all over the city in the end. During the chase, someone jumps from St. Paul’s Cathedral to the nearby Grange Hotel, then runs across the top of Blackfriars train station before stopping on the roof of the Tate Modern. Cruise has found that parkouring between London’s most famous landmarks is the best way to see the city.
Scene from Mission: Impossible: Deadly Judgment, Part 1: Airport Chase (2023)From the world’s most amazing and well-known landmarks to a meeting center in Canada.
Vancouver is often used in movies and TV shows to represent other places because it is cheap. It’s been used as a stand-in for San Francisco, New York, and even North Korea, but in Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol, it stands for Bombay. In a scene, Tom Cruise’s character, Hunt, chases Michael Nyqvist’s character, Kurt Hendricks, down a busy Indian street. However, the background is a very ordinary street block next to the Vancouver Convention Center.
Cemetery Delivery Scene – Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015)
London is like a second home for the Mission Impossible movies, but Tom Cruise’s character, Ethan Hunt, is rarely seen walking around this foggy city.
In Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation, the secret delivery of data from a hard drive is supposed to take place against a scary background. Brompton Cemetery in South London is the right place for this. This cemetery was built in the 18th century and has more than 35,000 statues and tombstones. It is one of the oldest and most famous in the city.
Rooftop Chase Scene – Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018)
Most people agree that Fallout is the best Mission Impossible movie, and some people even think it’s one of the best action movies ever made.
The movie takes us from Paris to New Zealand and then back to London, where Tom Cruise and Henry Cavill chase each other all over the city in the end. During the chase, someone jumps from St. Paul’s Cathedral to the nearby Grange Hotel, then runs across the top of Blackfriars train station before stopping on the roof of the Tate Modern. Cruise has found that parkouring between London’s most famous landmarks is the best way to see the city.
Airport Chase Scene – Mission Impossible: Deadly Judgment – Part 1 (2023)
Movie magic means that sometimes the fanciest places are made out of department stores or other places where you wouldn’t expect to see a movie being made. In Mission: Impossible: Judgment of Death, Part 1, the central train station in Birmingham stands in for the luxury international airport in Abu Dhabi.
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The real airport is used for the wide shots, like the one where Tom Cruise runs across the top of the building. But when you go inside, it’s all Birmingham. Let’s hope that Tom Cruise had a chance to try a traditional Birmingham Balti in his free time.
Motorcycle Jump Scene – Mission Impossible: Death Judgment – Part 1 (2023
Mission: Impossible: Deadly Judgment, Part 1 doesn’t stop at climbing the world’s biggest building or hanging from rocks that reach the sky. Tom Cruise does his best thing to date, which is to ride a motorbike off a mountain and then skydive.
In what is thought to be the best stunt in the history of movies, the actor rode the motorcycle down a large ski slope six times in one day of shooting. He had done 500 test jumps and 13,000 motocross jumps to prepare. There’s a movie of the whole shoot that looks amazing even after you’ve seen it. All of the pictures were taken in Helsetkopen, Norway.
