Tom Cruise running is a Hollywood staple.
Don’t believe me?
Everyone loves to watch Tom Cruise run on the big screen, but we didn’t know just how much of an impact his running has on his movies. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes may have uncovered some data that could change the game. It turns out the farther Cruise runs in his movies, the better the movie tends to be.
Tom Cruise’s run is the most legendary thing I have ever witnessed .
— No, its Necessary • (@intercosmicc) July 29, 2018
Movies with little running, like Lions for Lambs (27%) and Cocktail (5%), are some of the actor’s lowest-scored movies.
Only three Tom Cruise movies have made under $100 million worldwide in the last twenty years: Rock of Ages, Lions for Lambs and Magnolia. Even Knight and Day made a quarter of a billion.
— Matt Prigge (@mattprigge) July 30, 2018
Some of Cruise’s greatest runners, like Mission: Impossible III (70%) and Minority Report (91%), garnered rave reviews.
*to the tune of the Mission Impossible theme*
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Tom Cruise running— popular comedy account “the pixelated boat” (@pixelatedboat) July 30, 2018
How were Cruise’s running distances calculated? Rotten Tomatoes explains:
We counted every instance of Cruise’s running on screen, in seconds, and then calculated the distances ran by assuming he is clocking a six-minute mile (14.6 feet per second).
FUN FACT: Tom Cruise, at 56, is able to run faster and longer than the 36 year-olds who make fun of his running via their multiple social media outlets.
— Casa de Shimbo (@NeverDauntedNet) July 27, 2018
Here are Tom Cruise’s most run-reliant movies:
1. Mission: Impossible III – 3,212 feet
2. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol – 3,066 feet
3. War of the Worlds – 1,752 feet
4. Minority Report – 1,562 feet
5. The Firm – 1,241 feet
6. Edge of Tomorrow – 1,065 feet
7. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back – 1,051 feet
8. The Mummy – 1,022 feet
9. Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation – 1,007 feet
10. Vanilla Sky – 832 feet
Tom Cruise may be a professional actor, but there's one thing he's never faking: his incredible running form.
— Tom McHenry (@tommchenry) July 25, 2018
For my money, Tom Cruise intensely running full speed through the streets in #MissionImpossibleFallout > All the CG in all this summer’s blockbusters. #56yearsbadass #respect #goals pic.twitter.com/TKgUftvmLv
— Ava DuVernay (@ava) July 29, 2018
That’s a pretty good list (give or take a Vanilla Sky). Have Cruise’s agents picked up on this pattern?
If Tom Cruise ever stops running, he'll die.
— Matt Mustin (@MattMustin) July 27, 2018
Stanley Kubrick’s final act of genius was realizing how insanely repressed Tom Cruise looks when you forbid him from running.
— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) July 29, 2018
There’s sure to be lots of running in this summer’s gift from above: Mission: Impossible – Fallout!
MI6 has the best Tom Cruise running of any movie in which Tom Cruise runs.
— Olly Moss (@ollymoss) July 28, 2018
I really enjoyed MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT. Of all of the incredible stunts Tom Cruise performed, I was actually most impressed by his hyper-speed running. I mean, seriously, that guy is fast.
— John Cohen (@JohnCohen1) July 29, 2018
Mission Impossible: Tom Cruise be running
— Zito (@_Zeets) July 29, 2018
Tom, you’ve run yourself straight into our hearts.
My friends at @RottenTomatoes estimated that Tom Cruise has run roughly 24,000 steps in all his movies combined. So when I sat down with Cruise, I asked him if he thought that was accurate.
The full RT piece is here https://t.co/pG3eFt8lCs pic.twitter.com/R5b9loTNvG— ErikDavis (@ErikDavis) July 29, 2018
