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The truth behind M:I-2 's most dangerous stunt

Director John Woo says Tom Cruise's life dangled by a thread

Liane Bonin is a senior writer for EW.com

If heights give you the heebie-jeebies, you may want to keep your eyes wide shut during the opening scene of Mission: Impossible 2 (in theaters May 24). Tom Cruise scales a vertigo-inducing cliff with his bare hands, leaps over a deadly drop, then hangs from a rock ledge by his fingertips before pulling himself up to safety. If you can't figure out how the producers found a stunt double who looks so much like the 37-year-old star, that's because they didn't. "It was all Tom up there," says producer Paula Wagner. "So of course, we had some really nail-biting moments."

Cruise, who is also a producer on the film, insisted on performing the sequence wearing only a thin safety cable, and he vetoed a small-scale cliff that had been constructed by the set department. Even though Cruise had two rock climbing experts on the set to guide him, his decision didn't sit well with director John Woo ( Face/Off ). "I was really mad that he wanted to do it, but I tried to stop him and I couldn't," Woo says. "I was so scared I was sweating. I couldn't even watch the monitor when we shot it."

Unfortunately for Woo, it took seven takes under the blazing Moab, Utah, sun to get the scene right. "We had five cameras on the cliff, including a helicopter camera, a camera on a crane, and cameramen hanging from safety cables, but we had focus problems, so we had to do it again and again," he says. "But Tom would say, 'I'm okay, John, don't worry, I want to do it one more time."'

Though Cruise's decision to perform his own stunts, including dangling from a helicopter six stories above the ground, didn't carry over to the rest of the crew (a lighting double refused to step in for one of Cruise's costars during a helicopter stunt), everyone seems to agree that his derring-do made a difference in the finished product. "The opening sequence just wouldn't have been the same if he hadn't done it himself," says costar John Polson. "No amount of special effects can make you feel like that, because you can tell that it's really just him."

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IMF agent Ethan Hunt takes on a renegade spy who's stolen a deadly high-tech virus.

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Did tom cruise climb mission: impossible 2's mountain without a safety cable.

Mission: Impossible 2 opens with Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt climbing a mountain, but did he really perform this scene without safety cables?

• Mission: Impossible 2 marked a turning point for Tom Cruise, as he set out to make himself an action hero and performed impressive stunts.
• The rock climbing sequence in Mission: Impossible 2 was filmed with safety cables and a stuntman, although it still showcased Cruise's dedication to making things look real.
• Since Mission: Impossible 2 , Cruise has continued to push the boundaries with death-defying stunts in subsequent Mission: Impossible movies, going to great lengths to thrill the audience.

Mission: Impossible 2 opens with a sequence of Tom Cruise rock climbing as superspy Ethan Hunt, and his ascent up a mountain with no safety cables leading to speculation if the stunt was real. Mission: Impossible 2 marked something of a turning point for Cruise. Before the sequel, the actor appeared in a variety of genres, with his star power alone often enough to make a given film a success. With Mission: Impossible 2, he set out to make himself an action hero and performed several impressive stunts himself, but there is some confusion about whether Cruise did the rock climbing sequence himself.

Mission: Impossible 2 was a major success in 2000 and proved the Mission: Impossible franchise had a future ahead. Mission: Impossible 2 also began the trend of death-defying stunts in these movies thanks to Ethan Hunt's introduction scene. In this opening, Hunt is scaling up a cliff at Utah's picturesque Dead Horse Point. Hunt is free soloing up the cliff with no safety cables or harness, and at one point, even skids down an overhang and is left dangling in the air. Unlike Hunt, Tom Cruise's rock climbing was done with safety ropes and a stuntman.

Mission: Impossible 2 is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video and Paramount+.

How Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible 2 Mount Climb Stunt Was Filmed

Cruise began his dedication to realistic stunts.

In a 2000 interview with UKC , Mission: Impossible 2 cameraman and experienced climber Earl Wiggins broke down the Tom Cruise rock climbing sequence. He explained that Cruise trained for Mission: Impossible 2's rock climbing scene with stunt double Ron Kauk, who would also escort him into position for each shot. The climbing was filmed over five days, while winches were also used to get the star in and out of position for the scene. For the moment when Hunt slips down and holds on to the overhang, Wiggins revealed Cruise's double Keith Campbell did that particular stunt .

During the filming of this Mission: Impossible 2 climb, Cruise was always attached to safety cables or harnesses that were later removed in post with CGI. This includes the impressive, 15 feet leap Ethan takes from one side of the mountain to the other. Cruise performed the stunt in many takes of the latter jump himself to make sure it looked right.

While the scene was critiqued by experienced climbers over its lack of reality, this opening performed its main task of making Hunt look like a daredevil who enjoyed being — in this case literally — on the edge. Even with a safety cable, Cruise's work in this Mission: Impossible 2 sequence is incredible and shows his dedication to making things look real.

How Much Tom Cruise Runs In Each Mission Impossible Movie (Official Answer)

How the mi:2 rock climb compares to tom cruise's other stunts, mission: impossible 2 started cruise's obsession to one-up himself with each new stunt.

The Tom Cruise rock climbing stunt is still a thrilling sequence to look back on all these years later, but it is small scale compared to the things Cruise does in later Mission: Impossible movies. Mission: Impossible 2 's stunt could be seen as the moment Cruise saw the impact it would have on audiences if he performed dangerous feats himself, and it seems he has been chasing that in all the subsequent Mission: Impossible movies.

Of course, insurance companies and studios are not keen to see their star doing such risky stunts, which is why Cruise doesn't perform the rock climbing sequence completely on his own. However, after Mission: Impossible 2 , Cruise seems to have leveraged his role as producer to let him get away with putting himself in truly outrageous situations . The Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol Burj Khalifa sequence seemed to be the real shift in which a big selling point of these movies became seeing what Cruise was willing to do next.

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation found Cruise hanging onto the side of a plane as it took off and holding his breath underwater for a record-breaking amount of time. Mission: Impossible - Fallout had Cruise doing a Halo jump on camera and flying a helicopter in a midair battle sequence.

Most recently, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 featured a wild sequence of Cruise driving a motorcycle off a cliff and parachuting. As the bar continues to be raised, it is clear the Mission: Impossible 2 rock climbing sequence was just the beginning of the lengths - and heights - Cruise was willing to go to for the audience.

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In Mission: Impossible 2, Tom Cruise stars as the iconic spy Ethan Hunt, who must stop a rogue agent from using the deadly virus "Chimera" for his own gain. The 2000 action movie features John Woo's trademark stylized action sequences and serves as the first sequel in an extensive franchise.

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Tom Cruise returns to his role as Ethan Hunt in the second installment of "Mission: Impossible." This time Ethan Hunt leads his IMF team on a mission to capture a deadly German virus before it is released by terrorists. His mission is made impossible due to the fact that he is not the only person after samples of the disease. He must also contest with a gang of international terrorists headed by a turned bad former IMF agent who has already managed to steal the cure.

Rating: PG-13

Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery & thriller

Original Language: English

Director: John Woo

Producer: Tom Cruise , Paula Wagner

Writer: Brannon Braga , Ronald D. Moore , Robert Towne

Release Date (Theaters): May 24, 2000  wide

Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2011

Box Office (Gross USA): $215.4M

Runtime: 2h 3m

Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Production Co: Paramount Pictures, Cruise-Wagner Productions

Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS, Surround, Dolby SR

Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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Dougray Scott

Sean Ambrose

Thandiwe Newton

Nyah Nordoff-Hall

Ving Rhames

Luther Stickell

Richard Roxburgh

John Polson

Billy Baird

Brendan Gleeson

John McCloy

Rade Serbedzija

Dr. Nekhorvich

William Mapother

Dominic Purcell

Anthony Hopkins

Mission Commander Swanbeck

Matthew Wilkinson

Paula Wagner

Brannon Braga

Ronald D. Moore

Robert Towne

Terence Chang

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Deborah Aquila

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Thomas E. Sanders

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The first underwhelmed me, but this one straight-up bored me. Again, of course seeing Hunt climb a mountain without a harness is impressive sure. And I even quite liked the idea behind the villain of the piece (though even that angle was woefully underdeveloped). Even setting it in predominantly Australia was enough to grab my attention, and that's saying something cause I'm pretty biased when it comes to that. I hear tell that Mission: Impossible II is the low point in the series, and that at least is encouraging, because if anything afterwards is much worse than this one, I don't know if I'll be able to make it through to Rogue Nation.

Wrongly shouldered with a reputation for being stylish over substantive as if that ends up to be a bad thing in this specific case, the second Mission: Impossible puts action before espionage, but effectively advances IMF from small to big screen with enough sexy cool to keep the team going. Indeed, the eye-popping spectacles leave the convoluted web spun by the first chapter in the dust, successfully setting up a winning template for the more mental and muscular episodes to follow. The only conspiracy here is against time. Clocking in at over two hours, what should've been a lean mean fighting machine overstays its welcome. In this PG-13-rated spy thriller, a secret agent (Cruise) gets sent to Sydney, to find and destroy a genetically modified disease called "Chimera." Sure, more persnickety moviegoers laugh at the balletic ballistics of Hong Kong director John Woo, but the excitement rarely lets up. Going solo after the muddled mission in the first adventure, screenwriter Robert Towne presents a straight-shooting spy game. It's not rocket science but it does make the audience pump their fists and laugh in all of the right places. Bottom line: The Woo Sell Out

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Mission: Impossible gets Wooed in this second installment of the franchise. Director John Woo takes the helm and ups the action to the point of nauseum. And, there's so much identity switching and uses of masks that this might as well have been called Face/Off 2. Tom Cruise is also a problem, as he makes it all about his character and showing off his action moves (to the detriment of the film). The style over substance focus even extends to Limp Bizkit's cover of the Mission: Impossible Theme, which is just noise. Still, a lot of the action sequences are impressive and shot well. For a mindless action film, Mission: Impossible II is alright, but it's a disappointing entry into the series.

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If James Bond is still around at the end of the 21st century, he will look a lot like Ethan Hunt. The hero of the " Mission: Impossible " series is a 007 for our time.

That means: Sex is more of a surprise and a distraction than a lifestyle. Stunts and special effects don't interrupt the plot, but are the plot. The hero's interest in new consumer items runs more toward cybergadgets than sports cars. He isn't a patriot working for his government, but a hired gun working for a shadowy international agency. And he doesn't smoke, hardly drinks, and is in the physical condition of a triathlete.

The new Bond, in short, is a driven, over-achieving professional -- not the sort of gentleman sophisticate the British spy family used to cultivate. His small talk consists not of lascivious puns, but geekspeak. When he raised an eyebrow, it's probably not his, because he's a master of disguise and can hide behind plastic face masks so realistic even his cinematographer doesn't know for sure.

The first "Mission: Impossible" (1996) had a plot no one understood. "Mission: Impossible 2" has a plot you don't need to understand. It's been cobbled together by the expert Hollywood script doctor Robert Towne out of elements of other movies, notably Hitchcock's " Notorious " (1946) from which he takes the idea that the hero first falls in love with the heroine, then heartlessly assigns her to resume an old affair with an ex-lover in order to spy on his devious plans. In both films, the woman agrees to do this because she loves the hero. In "Notorious," the hero loses respect for the woman after she does what he asks. The modern hero is too amoral to think of this.

Towne's contribution is quite skillful, especially if it's true, as I've heard, that he had to write around major f/x sequences which director John Woo had already written and fine-tuned. His strategy is to make Ethan Hunt ( Tom Cruise ) into a sympathetic yet one-dimensional character, so that motivation and emotion will not be a problem. He's a cousin of Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name -- a hero defined not by his values but by his actions.

The villain remains in the Bond tradition: A megalomaniac who seeks power or wealth by holding the world ransom. In this case, he seeks control of a deadly virus, but the virus is what Hitchcock called a MacGuffin; it doesn't matter what it is, just so it's something everyone desires or fears. The movie wisely spends little time on the details, but is clever in the way it uses the virus to create time pressure: Twenty-four hours after you're exposed, you die, and that leads to a nicely-timed showdown involving the hero, the woman he loves, the villain, the virus, and a ticking clock.

Thandie Newton plays the woman, and the most significant thing about her character is that she's still alive at the end, and apparently available for the sequel. The Bond girls have had a depressing mortality rate over the years, but remember that 007 was formed in the promiscuous 1960s, while Ethan Hunt lives in a time when even spies tend to stay with old relationships, maybe because it's so tiresome to start new ones.

Newton's character is unique in the way she plays a key role in the plot, taking her own initiative. Bond girls, even those with formidable fighting skills, were instruments of the plot; Newton's Nyah Hall not only lacks a name that is a pun, but shockingly makes a unilateral decision that influences the outcome of the movie. The playing field will be more level in the "M:I" battle of the sexes.

For Tom Cruise, the series is a franchise, like Mel Gibson's " Lethal Weapon " movies. "M:I3" is already on the drawing board, again with John Woo as director, and there's no reason the sequels can't continue as long as Cruise can still star in action scenes (or their computer-generated manifestations). This is good for Cruise. By more or less underwriting his box office clout, it gives him the freedom to experiment with more offbeat choices like " Eyes Wide Shut " and " Magnolia ."

As for the movie itself: If the first movie was entertaining as sound, fury and movement, this one is more evolved, more confident, more sure-footed in the way it marries minimal character development to seamless action. It is a global movie, flying no flag, requiring little dialog, featuring characters who are Pavlovian in their motivation. It's more efficient than the Bond pictures, but not as much pure fun. But in this new century, I have a premonition we'll be seeing more efficiency and less fun in a lot of different areas. The trend started about the time college students decided management was sexier than literature.

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Mission: Impossible II (2000)

Rated PG-13

123 minutes

Dougray Scott as Sean Ambrose

Thandie Newton as Nyah Hall

Richard Roxburgh as Hugh Stamp

Brendan Gleeson as McCloy

John Polson as Billy Baird

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• Hans Zimmer

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Thandie Newton Recalls the "Nightmare" of Working with a "Really Stressed" Tom Cruise

"He tries superhard to be a nice person. But the pressure. He takes on a lot," she said in an interview.

• Newton described Cruise as "really stressed" and "dominant," although "he tries superhard to be a nice person."

No one, it seems, is impervious to the fear that Mission: Impossible 's franchise star and Hollywood's resident Scientology ambassador, Tom Cruise, can provoke. Not even Thandie Newton .

In conversation with Vulture , Newton described her experience working opposite a "really stressed" and "dominant" Cruise on the 2000 film Mission: Impossible II . When asked why she never filmed another movie with the action/thriller franchise, the Westworld actress merely said, "Oh, I was never asked. I was so scared of Tom. He was a very dominant individual. He tries superhard to be a nice person. But the pressure. He takes on a lot. And I think he has this sense that only he can do everything as best as it can be done."

She also regaled an incident on set in which her and Cruise attempted to finish a night scene on a balcony. "I don't think it was a very well-written scene," Newton said. "I get angry with him. We're frustrated with each other. And we're looking out over Spain. It wasn't going well. And [director] John Woo, bless him, wasn't there. He was downstairs looking at everything on a monitor. And John had made a decision at the beginning of the movie, unbeknownst certainly to me, that he didn't speak English. Which I think was very helpful to him, but it was extremely unhelpful to the rest of us. So this scene was happening, and Tom was not happy with what I was doing because I had the shittiest lines.

"And he gets so frustrated with having to try and explain that he goes, 'Let me just—let's just go do it. Let's just rehearse on-camera.' So we rehearsed and they recorded it, and then he goes, 'I'll be you. You be me.' So we filmed the entire scene with me being him—because, believe me, I knew the lines by then—and him playing me. And it was the most unhelpful … I can't think of anything less revealing. It just pushed me further into a place of terror and insecurity. It was a real shame. And bless him. And I really do mean bless him, because he was trying his damnedest."

According to Newton, Cruise grew more stressed over the course of that night, to the point of manifesting a blemish on his face. "I remember at the beginning of the night, seeing this slight red mark on his nose, and by the end of the night, I kid you not—this is how his metabolism is so fierce—he had a big whitehead where that red dot was," she said. "It would take anyone else 48 hours to manifest a zit. I saw it growing, and it was like the zit was me, just getting bigger and bigger."

She said that she later called director Jonathan Demme, telling him how much of "a nightmare" the on-set disaster was. "As I was describing it, it was clear that I thought I was the big fucking problem. And Jonathan was like, 'Thandie, shame on you for not backing yourself.' He was really sweet," Newton continued. "And then Tom called and I thought, Oh, this is it. The apology. No, he was just like, 'We're going to reshoot this next week.' I'm like, 'Way brilliant.' And the next time we shot it, I went in there and I just basically manifested all the—because I realized what he wanted. He just wanted this alpha bitch. And I did as best as I could. It's not the best way to get the best work out of someone."

Still, Newton doesn't seem to think poorly of Cruise as a person. "He wasn't horrible. It was just—he was really stressed," she said. "I had the most extraordinary time, and you know who got me that role? Nicole Kidman. I've never actually outright asked her, but when your husband is like, 'Who would you mind me pretending to shag for the next six months?' You know what I mean? It's kind of nice if you can pick together. Nicole was a huge advocate for me."

Newton later said of her Mission: Impossible II experience , "Look, creative stuff is difficult. I was so tender and sensitive. And, also, if you think about the timeline of that, it was still early in my healing, in my recovery. I'd had good therapy. I'd realized that I was precious. If it was me now, I would want to go in and go, 'Hey!' I'd be it. You wouldn't need to play me and I play you on that balcony. And I would have squeezed that spot. Bam!"

Oh, and if you were perhaps wondering what kind of gifts Cruise gives, Newton also had an answer for that: "He was very generous and open about sharing Scientological stuff. Christmas gifts would be something to do with Scientology. … Like a book with the greatest hits of Scientology, a bit like a Bible kind of thing. I was curious, because it's like, Wow, if it's going to attract people, powerful, high-profile people, there's got to be some glue that sticks this shit together. Didn't find any."

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The franchise almost self-destructs in John Woo’s misguided, misogynistic sequel.

[ With the upcoming release of Mission: Impossible - Fallout , we're reposting our retrospective series on the Mission: Impossible franchise. ]

Mission: Impossible was a resounding success , and yet it didn’t firmly establish what a “ Mission: Impossible ” movie was in terms of tone. There was Tom Cruise acting at Peak Tom Cruise within the confines of an action spy story. How much flexibility was there in a franchise that was anchored by Cruise and tried to balance a team dynamic against its big star while throwing in fun twists and neat gadgets. Cruise and co-producer Paula Wagner tested the dexterity of the film series by bringing in John Woo to completely change the complexion of the franchise. The result was a disaster that jettisoned what was fun about the first movie and reduced Mission: Impossible II to a painfully generic action film that sucked the energy out of its talented actor and director and left audiences with a shell of a picture that’s both crushingly dull and ragingly misogynistic.

This time around, the protagonist isn’t really even Ethan Hunt (Cruise). It’s Nyah Nordoff-Hall ( Thandie Newton ), a thief who is recruited by Hunt when rogue IMF Agent Sean Ambrose ( Dougray Scott ) makes off with Chimera, a virus created by Biocyte Pharmaceuticals chemist Vladimir Nekhorvich ( Rade Serbedzija ). Nekhorvich believed that he was getting the virus into Hunt’s safe hands, but Ambrose, impersonating Hunt by wearing a mask and using a digital voice changer, took possession of the virus, or at least he thought he did. In the film’s convoluted framework, Ambrose only has the cure, Bellerophon, and needs to get Chimera. Then he’ll work his way into the idiotic plan of Biocyte’s slimy CEO John C. McCloy ( Brendan Gleeson ).

The plan is to release Chimera, which gestates inside a host for 20 hours before becoming fatal and contagious, and then when there’s a worldwide epidemic, the company will release Bellerophon and make an ungodly sum of money. The particulars of this deal include forcing the audience to watch Ambrose negotiate stock options with McCloy because Woo thought that was just riveting stuff. Meanwhile, both baddies (and the screenwriters) seem oblivious to the fact that if a worldwide, deadly epidemic struck and a company had the cure, people wouldn’t patiently wait in line at their local pharmacy and pay for it. The governments of the world would simply take the drug and distribute it freely to prevent the collapse of civilization. While I don’t demand “realism” from a Mission: Impossible movie, I prefer if the villains understand how the world works.

To stop this harebrained scheme, IMF sends in Hunt even though they don’t have a good reason for it. Ambrose may have impersonated Hunt to get Chimera from Nekhorvich, but that’s the end of his involvement. In Mission: Impossible II , Hunt’s role goes from operation point man to recruiter/handler for an asset whose skills are completely discarded. It’s hard to think of another film that’s tries so hard to craft a damsel in distress while simultaneously devaluing the knight in shining armor, but Mission: Impossible II puts Nyah at the front of the action, not because she’s a skilled thief, but because she used to date Ambrose. Her actual skillset is a red herring so that the movie can engage in jaw-dropping misogyny.

Women rarely fare well in the first three Mission: Impossible movies, but Nyah gets it the worst. Even when she’s supposed to be at her best, Hunt comes in and ruins her heist. Later when she’s trying to drive away, he almost runs her off of a cliff before the two go goo-goo eyed at each other and hop into bed. Now that Hunt has “feelings” for her, we can have Mission Commander Swanbeck ( Anthony Hopkins ) step in to reveal that he wasn’t recruiting Nyah for her thieving, but because she can seduce Ambrose. Hunt, using reason and logic, tries to explain that perhaps its best not to rest the fate of the world on an untrained civilian conjuring up old feelings from her highly suspicious ex, but Swanbeck replies, “What? To go to bed with a man and lie to him? She's a woman. She's got all the training she needs.” And it somehow gets worse to the point where she’s later referred to as a monkey because why be sexist when you can be shockingly racist as well?

Nyah is a professional damsel who might be able to think on her feet as long as Hunt is holding her hand. Unfortunately, she never has Ambrose fooled for a second, and the film lets us know that he’s unconvinced and just using her for sex. So all of our heroes are dumber than the guy who thinks he can get rich by unleashing the Plague. The whole endeavor is so corny and overwrought, but it’s also a Tom Cruise blockbuster, which is why Mission: Impossible II is morbidly fascinating.

Watching M:I 2 , it looks like John Woo interpreted the material as the American James Bond, but minus the interesting gadgets and slathered with a melodramatic, B-movie style, which pushed the director into self-parody. Set aside that all of the fights, shootouts, and car chases are inert and feel like someone trying to copy Woo’s better movies; the glowing dove may as well be the director stepping out and saying, “None of us are taking this seriously, right?” And if Mission: Impossible II were some subversive bit of filmmaking, I could at least applaud it on those grounds, except it never has the guts to truly break free of the summer blockbuster. It plays like a kid who’s constantly rolling his eyes at what’s happening.

What’s more bizarre than seeing Woo direct like an amateur film director is watching Cruise take a backseat in his own movie. Somehow, Ethan Hunt has even less of a character this time around, which is a problem since Hunt and Ambrose are positioned to be mirrors of each other. In the movie’s only good scene, Hunt’s plan to break into Biocyte and destroy Chimera gets described by Ambrose. It’s a great moment where the villain is positioned to be so powerful that he’s the one who breaks down and ridicules the hero’s plan and character. He points out that Hunt would prefer to engage in “acrobatics” than drop a few guards. It also gets a little meta when the villain criticizes Hunt/Cruise by remarking, “You know, that was the hardest part about having to portray you: grinning like an idiot every fifteen minutes.”

Perhaps if Mission: Impossible had developed more of an identity as a franchise, and there was more care being put into the subversive qualities, Mission: Impossible II could have functioned as a thoughtful deconstruction of the series. But not enough had been built up. I understand that they didn’t want to ape De Palma, but they also didn’t grow anything that had been planted. They don’t question why Ethan remains an IMF Agent; they don’t question the lone hero/team dynamic. Instead, they come up on the wrong side of a B-movie and hoped to awe the audience with generic action and lots and lots of masks.

Despite being absolutely wretched and offensive, Mission: Impossible II was a huge hit at the box office. Cruise’s career was still red hot, and while he was picking up critical acclaim for his work in Jerry Maguire , Magnolia , and Eyes Wide Shut , movies like Mission: Impossible are what made him an international sensation. However, when Cruise returned to the franchise six years later, he was at a very different point in his life. The next time we saw Ethan Hunt, his impossible mission was proving he could be a family man.

Tomorrow: Mission: Impossible III

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What are the Motorcycles in Mission: Impossible 2?

Mission: Impossible 2 came out in 2000, starring Tom Cruise as Impossible Missions Forces (IMF) agent Ethan Hunt, who must track down a biological weapon known as “Chimera.” The film, directed by John Woo, was the highest-grossing film of the year 2000.

Though the plot and dialogue were subjected to criticism, the action sequences were widely lauded. The most memorable is the motorcycle chase / duel late in the film, rife with stoppies, wheelies, jumps, and dirt action.

There are two motorcycles involved, both Triumph models:

• Triumph Speed Triple
• Triumph Daytona 955i

While the two-wheeled physics of the action leave much to be desired, the scene certainly introduced a broader audience to the “bug-eyed” beauty of the Speed Triple. Knobby tires were installed in order to handle the dirt scenes — tires which can be seen in stills from the film, as well as photos of the actual Speed Triple stunt bike on display.

M:I-2 Triumph Speed Triple

This is the black naked bike ridden by Tom Cruise’s character in the film. Some sources have reported the bike as a Speed Triple 955i — however, the black wheels and cursive quarter panel script indicate the bike is an earlier version, either a T509 or the 1999 T595. The T509 Speed Triples had an 885cc, 108-hp, fuel-injected triple cylinder motor, while the T595 received a re-tuned version of the larger 955cc triple from the Daytona.

The dual “bug-eye” headlamps and polished frame gave the bike’s a factory streetfighter look, which would become a trademark of the series. The high-powered triples were tuned for broader torque curves, making these bikes potent hooligan machines.

M:I-2 Triumph Daytona 955i

The Daytona was Triumph’s entry into the sport bike market. The Daytona 955i had a 130-hp triple that helped to establish the company’s reputation for high-performance, distinctive triples.

While the bikes could not quite match the laptimes of the Japanese-built competition, the brawny Daytona 955i was big on class and personality — and it worked better on real roads than the liter-class replica racers from Japan.

Mission Impossible II Motorcycle Chase Scene

Here’s the full video of the chase scene in HD.

The bike is a 1999 955i Speed Triple with the larger 955 engine. A T595 is a faired Daytona not a Speed Triple. The script was changed in 2000 from the earlier type and the black wheels changed in 2000 also. the frame is NOT highly polished but lacquered silver sparkle paint. – I only know this as I have the same cross-over year bike identical (apart from the silly tyres) to the one in the film.

Bikes were great in the scene but they rely heavily on the audience not knowing the difference between a street and knob tire – it was in your face obvious. C’mon Mr Woo, it’s that sort of detail that…..eh, what do I know, the film still made half a billion box office.

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‘mission: impossible 2’ co-writer reveals how ‘star trek’ helped save the sequel.

Twenty years after 'Mission: Impossible 2' hit theaters, Ronald D. Moore recalls days spent working on the script at Tom Cruise's house and taking over the film that originally had Oliver Stone attached.

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Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible 2  wouldn’t exist without getting a little help from Captain Picard and the Borg.

Twenty years ago, on May 24, 2000, director John Woo’s M:I-2 motorcycle-jousted into theaters as the first sequel in producer-star Cruise’s venerable big-screen franchise based on the classic TV show. Helping bring this extreme guilty pleasure to life, which centers on IMF Agent Ethan Hunt racing against time to stop a deadly virus (in between slow-mo gun fights and flying doves), was another movie based on a TV show: 1996’s Star Trek: First Contact . The second film to feature the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation was a huge hit for Paramount Pictures, which put the film’s writers, Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga, on the radar of Cruise and his then-producing partner, Paula Wagner. The writers’ mission: Reshape and refine the sequel’s story after development with then-director Oliver Stone and writers David Marconi and Michael Tolkin had stalled out. 

To celebrate the hit sequel’s 20th anniversary, The Hollywood Reporter recently spoke with Moore about his experience going from the bridge of the Enterprise to breaking story at Tom Cruise’s house. 

“ Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It…”

“ First Contact  came out in November 1996, and a Paramount exec who worked on it approached us shortly after the premiere, in December,” Moore recalls. At the time, First Contact reportedly had the best test-screening scores in the studio’s history — better than their Oscar-winning hit  Forrest Gump  — so bringing the film’s writers on board was a no-brainer. “We had been approached by Don Granger [the feature exec on Star Trek at the time]. He called us and said, ‘Hey, we’re having trouble getting M:I-2 off the ground. I think you and Brannon might be good candidates to help.” (While Moore and Braga would receive story credit on the final film, sole screenplay credit went to Chinatown ’s Robert Towne, Cruise’s then-script doctor of choice.) 

Moore and Braga were excited for the opportunity to take this next step into their feature film career, after previous success with First Contact and its predecessor, 1994’s Star Trek: Generations . “It was obviously a big opportunity for us, and a very fun one, to go from having this great, formative experience starting our careers working on Star Trek for the last few years to, now, having a chance to work on a Tom Cruise movie,” Moore says.

But the studio didn’t hire the writers right away. “‘We have a script and it doesn’t work, and the director’s had a falling out,’” Moore remembers Granger telling them (he would go on to a long producing career with the Mission franchise and other Tom Cruise films like Jack Reacher ). From there, Moore and Braga agreed to read the script Stone and his collaborators were working on to see how they could help before meeting with Cruise and producer Wagner. 

“We first met with Tom and Paula Wagner, sort of a general meeting to get a feel for us, and that went well,” Moore says. Soon after, the writers scripted their first draft. They continued to meet with the actor at his home.

“We would meet with Tom every day, for like a month,” Moore recalls, “just hanging out with him and working on story. It was wild. Looking back on that now, it was really cool what we did. We really liked him. He was a great guy, very smart, he was funny … he had a deep knowledge of film and cinema.” It was through their chats about classic films that the two writers and their boss landed on Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious (1946) to serve as the basic framework for what their film would be. Like the protagonist that film, Ethan Hunt would find himself in a similar plot that forces him into a relationship with a crafty thief and love interest, Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Thandie Newton). (Moore and Braga never did a pass on the Marconi and Tolkin draft Stone was developing, but Moore recalls making handwritten notes on the margins of that script  — both are available to the public in Moore’s archives at the USC Library.)

“It’s Not Mission: Difficult, It’s Mission: Impossible…”

Moore and Braga were also responsible for fine-tuning the midair hijack of a passenger plane that starts the film, putting that in place of what Stone and his team scripted: A “mouse trap”-like sequence involving a Brazilian drug lord being tricked to board a plane that turns out to be a high-tech simulation. The duo was also responsible for “Chimera,” the deadly, genetically modified virus that would serve as the film’s MacGuffin, along with its cure, “Bellerophon.” They also executed one of the film’s signature (and often parodied) scenes: the opening rock-climbing sequence. Here, Ethan, on vacation, free climbs and leaps precariously from one cliff face to another in Cruise’s signature death-defying style. (This sequence arguably started the franchise’s “Top that!” approach to finding increasingly tense and harrowing stunts and set pieces for Cruise to execute for real.) 

“That sequence was all Tom,” Moore remembers. “Tom was deep into rock climbing at that point. He was like, ‘I want to be rock climbing at the beginning,’ and we said, ‘Okay.’” Moore also believes they scripted the beat where Cruise receives his new mission briefing via high-tech sunglasses encased in a rocket-like tube that’s launched at Hunt at the end of his harrowing climb. 

As exciting as it is to pitch and write action scenes for a summer blockbuster, Moore’s fondest memories of working on the movie come from those behind-the-scenes moments that never made it to the screen — one of which Moore believes he’s never told anyone about before. 

“[Tom] would just tell us these amazing stories. Like, Time  magazine had just recently gathered all the people who had been on its covers for some anniversary. And Tom goes to the event and he’s there, sitting at the table with Henry Kissinger and all these other memorable people from history. And Tom tells us that Jack Kevorkian was there.”

Moore recalls Cruise saying that Kevorkian approached the actor. “Tom goes: ‘Kevorkian shakes my hand and says, “So, how you feeling?” And Tom laughs and says, ‘Oh, I’m fine.’ And Kevorkian snaps his fingers and goes: ‘Ah, too bad.’”

There’s also “one very sweet” moment of Moore’s time with Cruise, an insight into the notoriously private star’s home life, that stands out. 

“I got there a little early to Tom’s house, before Brannon did, for the meeting,” Moore recalls. “We always met in this big room that felt like a living room, but it was actually his screening room. And I’m in there, and I’m just waiting, and I’m looking out the windows into the backyard. And out there was Tom with his kids, and he had them in these pedal cars that were custom made to look like airplanes. Like a P-51 fighter. And his little kids were pedaling around in these little airplane toy cars, and Tom was like hunched down and he was so into [playing with] his kids. He was like, ‘Okay, you are Whiskey-Tango-Five, and you’re on the runway. And you got to call into the tower before she takes off,’ and the kids were into it, and it was just so endearing. Such a lovely moment.” 

Meeting Woo

The highlight of the whole experience for Moore was arguably meeting the film’s director, John Woo, and talking to the iconic action filmmaker about the making of one of his most memorable masterpieces.

“We got to meet with him a couple of times, he was great,” Moore says. “I was in awe of him, because [ TNG writer and Deep Space Nine showrunner] Ira [Steven-Behr] had gotten me into Hard Boiled and The Killer at the time, and I was so into those films. And there was a moment when Woo and I were alone, and I just had to ask him about the making of the tea house [shootout] scene that opens Hard Boiled . And he kind of lit up and said, ‘Oh, that was a whole thing,’ you know? He goes, ‘We spent days plotting it out, working with the cinematographer,’ and he got so animated talking about it and how challenging that scene was to pull off.” 

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Mission: Impossible 2 - The One Stunt Tom Cruise Begged Director John Woo To Do

Tom Cruise's much-publicized stunt of driving a motorcycle off a cliff in the upcoming "Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1" had fans losing their minds. Of course, the death-defying leap of faith — where he opens a parachute as he lets the cycle falls to the earth below — isn't the first time the adrenaline-fueled actor made director Christopher McQuarrie lose sleep. The "Dead Reckoning" stunt was preceded by a HALO jump in 2018's "Mission: Impossible – Fallout," and a stunt hanging outside a door of a cargo plane in "Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation" in 2015.

Cruise obviously doesn't have a fear of heights, which director John Woo discovered firsthand at the helm of the 2000 blockbuster "Mission: Impossible II." In a 2022 interview with Letterboxd  about his filmmaking career, Woo revealed the terror he felt as Cruise performed the film's marquee stunt to open the film.

"I think the most dangerous and scary moment was when we were shooting 'Mission: Impossible II,' and Tom Cruise climbed 2,000 feet up a cliff by himself," Woo recalled for the publication. "And he didn't allow me to use any stunt doubles to do it. He wanted to do all of the action by himself. It was insane!"

Cruise begged Woo to do the rock-climbing scene

Without question, Tom Cruise is Hollywood's last great action star , and he has rightfully earned that reputation through his persistence in performing all of his own stunts to entertain his audiences no matter the risks involved. John Woo learned of Cruise's persistence during the production of "Mission: Impossible II," when the actor wouldn't take no for an answer from the director when it came to tackling the cliff-climbing scene.

"The first time [he asked] I refused, because I was angry and worried. But he was begging me to do it," Woo told Letterboxd. "I was so scared, I couldn't even bear to watch the monitor. But we set it all up, and he's climbing up there by himself, and I'm sitting there praying, 'Jesus, please don't let anything happen.' He had no protection, so it was very scary, very dangerous. But the scene turned out really great."

With so much at stake, Woo admitted to Letterboxd that word surrounding the cliff-climbing stunt was initially kept private: " I didn't let the studio know about it. Or the insurance company!"

At least studios and insurance companies can take comfort in knowing that Cruise extensively prepares for his stunts. In fact, Cruise jumped out of a plane over 500 times for his Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning training to do his motorcycle cliff scene.

Thandie Newton recalls the 'nightmare' experience working with Tom Cruise on 'Mission: Impossible 2'

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• After the scene, she called her "Beloved" director Jonathan Demme and told him the experience was "a nightmare."
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Thandie Newton did not hold back when Vulture asked her what it was like to make a "Mission: Impossible" movie.

In a lengthy interview with the site, the "Westworld" star pulled the curtain back to reveal just how intense it is to work across from Tom Cruise on his franchise.

Newton starred in 2000's "Mission: Impossible 2," playing the love interest Nyah Nordoff-Hall opposite Cruise's IMF secret spy Ethan Hunt.

Newton told Vulture that she "was so scared of Tom" while working on the movie.

"He was a very dominant individual," Newton said. "He tries superhard to be a nice person. But the pressure. He takes on a lot. And I think he has this sense that only he can do everything as best as it can be done."

The actress recalled a scene between her and Cruise on a balcony in Spain that wasn't working.

"We're frustrated with each other," Newton said of shooting the scene.

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Newton said that director John Woo was downstairs looking at everything on monitors but Cruise wasn't happy with how the scene was going so the star took matters in his own hands.

"He gets so frustrated with having to try and explain that he goes, 'Let me just — let's just go do it. Let's just rehearse on-camera,'" Newton said. "So we rehearsed and they recorded it, and then he goes, 'I'll be you. You be me.' So we filmed the entire scene with me being him — because, believe me, I knew the lines by then — and him playing me. And it was the most unhelpful."

A representative for Cruise didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment about Newton's remarks. 

Newton said after the scene she called director Jonathan Demme, who cast her in his movie "Beloved," and described to him what had happened, saying it was "a nightmare."

"It was clear that I thought I was the big f---ing problem," Newton recalled. "And Jonathan was like, 'Thandie, shame on you for not backing yourself.' He was really sweet."

Then, Newton said, Cruise called her.

"I thought, Oh, this is it. The apology," the actress said. "No, he was just like, 'We're going to reshoot this next week.' I'm like, 'Way brilliant.' And the next time we shot it, I went in there and I just basically manifested all the — because I realized what he wanted. He just wanted this alpha bitch. And I did as best as I could. It's not the best way to get the best work out of someone."

Looking back on the experience now, Newton told Vulture she didn't think Cruise was "horrible," it was just that "he was really stressed." She also believes, if she was in that experience today, she would have done things differently.

"I was so tender and sensitive," she said. "If it was me now, I would want to go in and go, 'Hey!' I'd be it. You wouldn't need to play me and I play you on that balcony. And I would have squeezed that spot. Bam!"

Read the entire Vulture interview here.

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