High-voltage action sequences like Mad Max: Fury Road involve a lot of technicality and placement. It is surprising to know that some of these sequences were achieved without any CGI. Tom Cruise, undoubtedly one of the biggest movie stars in the world, would know a thing or two on the subject. His Mission Impossible stunts are spectacular to watch, and equally difficult to execute. Check out some of the most intense action scenes in movies in the last few years that did not use CGI. (Also read: 8 scenes from Bollywood movies that will never fail to make you laugh)
Fighting with sticks in Mad Max: Fury Road
Multiple explosions, bike chases, and an open desert—director George Miller achieved a technical marvel with those long action sequences in Mad Max: Fury Road that had very few additional effects and relied entirely on practical sources. The behind the scenes Crash & Smash video tells you how! High-rise jumps, flame-throwers, and long takes—the effect is thrilling.
Tenet plane crash scene
If you don’t understand much about Tenet and still get amazed by the action, that’s okay. But it also has elaborate and larger-than-life stunts that show how far Christopher Nolan can go. The plane crash in the movie was real!
fast and furious
In the Fast and Furious universe, cars aren’t just for fun. The scene where cars fall off a skyscraper in Fast and Furious 8 involved real cars being dropped from a tall building.
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation airplane sequence
Tom Cruise did the impossible in the airplane scene in Mission: Impossible – Rouge Nation (2015) where he is suspended from a flying plane without digital effects. It could have gone very, very wrong, but there was rehearsal; he had to wear special contact lenses to protect his eyes from wind and debris and he also had to wear a full-body harness.
dark Knight
Did you know that the 18-wheel truck that flips over in the middle of nowhere in The Dark Knight was completely real? Christopher Nolan wanted to achieve something challenging that no one had tried before in the action space. He did this with a lot of preparation and calculation in this memorable scene as it was an urban, closed location on La Salle Street!
