12. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
You’ll believe Tom Cruise can fly! Or very nearly, in Christopher McQuarrie’s seventh entry in the action series, which has come a long way from a TV show about people ripping face masks off (plus one of the greatest theme songs of all time). Sure, there’s a plot in here somewhere—good guys, bad guys, MacGuffins, international intrigue, globe-trotting hijinks—but the real draw has always been the stunts. Dead Reckoning Part One knows this, and delivers the hair-raising, jaw-dropping goods.
