Ever since his first taste of the action genre in 1986's Top Gun, Tom Cruise has looked for ways to push the limits of his body and acting. Mission Impossible, The Last Samurai and Jack Reacher are just some of the countless films where Cruise has foregone a stuntman to take his own fall.

In anticipation of Mission: Impossible — Fallout, which hits theaters July 27, The Hollywood Reporter has compiled a list of Cruise's wildest stunts over his more than 35-year career. While some of them are jaw-dropping in their own right, others are downright death-defying.