Fact: Tom Cruise loves to run. The seemingly ageless actor has been running on the silver screen for almost 40 years now, and he just keeps getting better.
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And now, to honor the man himself, the folks at Rotten Tomatoes have crunched the numbers and come up with an indisputable fact: the more Tom Cruise runs in a movie, the better it is. These geniuses estimate that Cruise has run over 24,000 feet throughout his prolific career onscreen.
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The numbers show that “movies featuring Cruise running more than 1,000 feet have a higher Tomatometer average (a huge 71 percent) than the movies in which he runs less than that, or not at all – and the same movies make more money at the box office, with an average inflated international gross of $538 million.” Here are the top 10 Cruise running films:
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
So, as they say, the proof is in the pudding.
And now, enjoy this video of every Tom Cruise run ever in a film (up until now, I’m sure there will be more to come).