The math says the more Tom Cruise runs, the better the movie works

 The math says the more Tom Cruise runs, the better the movie works

Tom Cruise is one of the hardest-working Hollywood actors on set. In fact, he often does not use doubles and it is not uncommon for him to get injured in stunts. Also, in action movies it is common to see him running, something that apparently works at the box office.

Taking advantage of the recent premiere of Mission: Impossible: Fallout, on Rotten Tomatoes they have decided to cross and compare numbers to see how far he has run and if the races have had a positive effect on the films starring Tom Cruise. The first thing that stands out is that, in his almost four decades of professional career, the American actor has traveled around 24,000 feet (7.32 kilometers) in a race, and there are no possible discarded scenes here.

Another interesting fact is that the movies in which Tom Cruise runs more than 1,000 feet average a fairly good score on Rotten Tomatoes, with a 71 out of 100, this being higher than those obtained by those who run less than that distance or not. perform that exercise. This trend extends to the median gross, which happens to be about $ 538 million for movies in which he runs more than 1,000 feet.

Another interesting aspect is that the physical demands that Tom Cruise has to face today are greater than when his career began in the 80s of the last century. To get all that data, Rotten Tomatoes explained that it counted each scene of Tom Cruise running in seconds and assuming that he traveled a mile (1.6 kilometers) every six minutes, that would come to about 14.6 feet per second.

This is the list of the 10 films in which Tom Cruise travels the greatest distance, not counting the recently released Mission Impossible: Fallout:

1. Mission Impossible 3: 979 meters.
2. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol: 934 meters.
3. The War of the Worlds: 534 meters.
4. Minority Report: 476 meters.
5. The cover: 378 meters.
6. At the edge of tomorrow: 324 meters.
7. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back: 320 meters.
8. The mummy: 311 meters.
9. Mission Impossible: Secret Nation: 306 meters.
10. Vanilla Sky: 235 meters.

As we can see, it seems that Tom Cruise does not weigh the physical demands despite being now 56 years old, and everything indicates that this will not go away seeing how well the Mission Impossible franchise works, one of the great culprits of why the actor has to give his best on a physical level despite his age.