Mission Impossible 4: How Tom Cruise Did The Burj Khalifa Stunt

The Burj Khalifa stunt in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol is a defining moment for the franchise, but did Tom Cruise climb the Burj Khalifa in real life? With a growing list of extremely dangerous stunts on his resume, scaling Burj Khalifa’s exterior in the fourth installment of the Mission Impossible franchise is one of Cruise’s most famous feats of courage. Since then, Cruise has continued to defy death in multiple movies with stunts like Mission Impossible: Fallout‘s HALO jump. Still, the Tom Cruise Burj Khalifa stunt, clinging to the windows of the skyscraper for dear life with only a pair of suction gloves, has become a cinema landmark.