Mission: Impossible - How They Did The Vault Scene

Mission: Impossible - How They Did The Vault Scene

What do you think of when you think about iconic scenes in movie history?

Maybe you think of the “I’ll be back” scene in The Terminator- or maybe it’s the iconic exchange between John McClain and Hans Gruber in Die Hard.

But in either case, one cannot mention iconic action movies without paying respects to the vault heist scene in 1996’s Mission Impossible.

Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is a secret agent for the Impossible Missions Force- he’s up against his biggest threat yet and has nobody to trust except for his few loyal friends.

In the scene, Ethan must break into a maximum security vault to steal a floppy disc that could save the day- but of course, it’s never that simple.