Random Things You Didn't Know About 'Mission: Impossible' Films (23 items)

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  (#17) Metallica's 'I Disappear' Was A First For The Band

  Mission: Impossible II was the first movie for which Metallica ever agreed to write a song.
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  (#3) Tom Cruise Actually Climbed The Tallest Building In The World

  Tom Cruise really performed the sequence where Ethan Hunt scales the outside of the Burj Khalifa tower, without the use of a stunt double. The Burj Khalifa tower is the tallest man-made structure in the world.
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  (#6) Each Of The 'Mission: Impossible' Films Features Someone Suspended On A Cable To Infiltrate A Location

  Mission: Impossible has a very specific series trademark. In every single film, someone is suspended by a cable while breaking into a location.

   
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  (#4) Tom Cruise Began To Really Push The Envelope With His Stunts In 'Mission: Impossible II'

  For the "knife-in-the-eye" scene, Tom Cruise insisted that a real knife be used. 
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  (#5) Tom Cruise And Ving Rhames Are The Only Actors Who Appear In Every Single 'Mission: Impossible' Film

  Only Tom Cruise and Ving Rhames have been featured in every Mission: Impossible film, while Simon Pegg and Michelle Monaghan are the only actors (besides Cruise and Rhames) to reprise their roles from Mission: Impossible III. Cruise, Rhames, Pegg, and now Renner (who debuted in Ghost Protocol) reprised their roles in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation.
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  (#15) 'Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation' Is Part Of A Huge Year For Spy Movies

  Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation is being released in the same year as many other big spy espionage films including Spy (a comedy with Jason Statham and Jude Law), Spectre (2015's James Bond installment), Kingsman: Secret Service (an action-comedy), and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (another series-turned-movie).

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