When Tom Cruise Runs, His Movies Make Money

Someone did a study!

There’s an actual study out that found the correlation between the amount of time Tom Cruise spends running in a film and how well that film does at the box office.

Rotten Tomatoes found that when Tom Cruise ran more than 1,000 feet in a movie the film rated higher on the Tomatometer than movies where he was just sitting around. Plus, the films that featured him running did very well at the box office.

Here are his top ranking movies

  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