Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.
Practical Effects
Cruise's Burj Khalifa climb—no green screen, just insane commitment.
Direction
Brad Bird's first live-action; Pixar precision meets practical destruction.
Stunts
Parking garage fight uses every vertical inch. Choreography as architecture.
Director
Brad Bird
Tom Cruise
Ethan Hunt
Paula Patton
Jane
Simon Pegg
Benji
Jeremy Renner
Brandt
Michael Nyqvist
Hendricks
Vladimir Mashkov
Sidorov
Samuli Edelmann
Wistrom
Ivan Shvedoff
Leonid Lisenker
Anil Kapoor
Brij Nath
Léa Seydoux
Sabine Moreau
Josh Holloway
Hanaway
Pavel Kříž
Marek Stefanski
Miraj Grbić
Bogdan
Ilia Volok
The Fog
Goran Navojec
Burly Russian Prisoner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Burj Khalifa sequence was shot on location with Cruise doing his own stunts on the 123rd floor exterior—insurance companies reportedly fainted.
Brad Bird crossed over from Pixar animation (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) and brought compositional clarity that redefined modern action geography—suddenly you could SEE the stunts again.
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