Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One review: Cruise performs most daring stunt of his long career

The marketing for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One has mostly revolved around Tom Cruise riding a motorbike off a Norwegian mountain, plunging more than a kilometre, before opening his parachute a mere 150m from the ground.

It is, undoubtedly, the most daring stunt of Cruise’s illustrious career, and this is a guy who once performed a scene on the outside of the apex of the world’s tallest building, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, and clung to the side of an Airbus A400M Atlas — while it was flying.