The Mission: Impossible 7 trailer boasts an impressive amount of running from Tom Cruise (and his co-stars), making the actor's career trend bigger. The trailer for Mission: Impossible 7 doubles down on a well-established Tom Cruise trend, with the actor's propensity for running in his films highlighted in particular.  The Mission: Impossible 7 trailer has offered a first glimpse of the next installment in the long-running franchise, including a number of its major action set-pieces. Tom Cruise is set to star again as Ethan Hunt, with Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, and Vanessa Kirby all reprising their roles. Mission: Impossible 7 also adds Hayley Atwell, Cary Elwes, Indira Varma, and many more actors to the franchise's ever-growing ensemble cast.

The trailer teases that Mission: Impossible 7—officially titled Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One—will potentially boast more dangerous stunts than its six high-action predecessors, with Cruise once again electing to commit a series of high-octane feats to film. These stunts have become equally as synonymous with the Mission: Impossible franchise as they have with Tom Cruise's career, with the actor well-known for his death-defying pursuit of action authenticity. The trailer shows Cruise launching off a cliff on a motorcycle, as well as horse chases, fights atop a moving train, and Cruise clutching onto an airplane for dear life. One thing that is also featured heavily in the Mission: Impossible 7 trailer is running. Tom Cruise is shown running at high speed in multiple different situations throughout the trailer, which plays as a self-aware form of marketing. Though subtle, it makes use of Cruise's often-used running sequences in the perfect way by addressing it head-on, hinting that the actor's most commonly recurring movie trait will be used extensively as part of Mission: Impossible 7's action sequences.

Cruise that's seen running throughout the trailer. Other actors are also shown to be engaging in Cruise's screen pastime, most notably Simon Pegg's Benji. The flashes of various running scenes in multiple locations not only add a sense of urgency to the trailer but also prove exactly why the Mission: Impossible franchise needs Tom Cruise, as his own characteristics as an actor have inextricably fused with it to form the essence of the franchise. The repeated running scenes showcased in the Mission: Impossible 7 trailer prove not only that Cruise is the key to the whole franchise, but that its films have been entirely shaped by his signature style. Visually, the Mission: Impossible 7 trailer even hints at this. It's a small touch, but the most significant scene of Cruise running comes immediately after his name flashes across the scene, indicating an awareness of the actor's well-known love of running in his movies—to the point where it has become a well-intentioned joke on the internet. With the trailer seemingly branching this trope out to encompass the behavior of supporting characters, too, it would seem that Mission: Impossible 7 has well and truly embraced Tom Cruise's running as an integral part of his acting.

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