His longtime stunt coordinator and second unit director Wade Eastwood told The Times of London newspaper how drained the actor was by one particular stunt in the eighth (and apparently final) instalment of his hit franchise Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning – one which involved him walking on the wing of a small biplane mid-air.

Tom Cruise has risked his life over the years for his love of movies and entertaining audiences around the world with some truly death-defying stunts. As Mission: Impossible potentially concludes with Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,

Tom Cruise has done countless stunts as Ethan Hunt in the ‘Mission: Impossible’ franchise, but here are the 16 that stand out most