My Own Movie Tour

Women pay some company in Salzburg to take them up outside the city so they can twirl around like Julie Andrews on the same hill she did in The Sound of Music, but I can't find anyone here in Prague to let me jump out of an aquarium restaurant that I've just blown up with a piece of gum as the water comes crashing down behind me and I go running off into the night. So, after seeing most of the sights in Prague, I decided to walk around and try to find as much of the scenery from Mission: Impossible as I could.

The easiest was the Charles Bridge, where Jon Voight's character staged his own death and fell into the river. I came across this in my normal sight seeing, but I wasn't sure if this or another bridge was used in the movie at the time.

At the western end of the bridge are these stairs, which Tom Cruise went running up to help Jon Voight and from where he supposedly watched the car explode in this square.

This is the square at the base of the stairs. It seems like they might have used another square and edited the movie to make us think it was right next to the bridge, but this one is close to the small amount of scenery I could see around the car.

Literally just to the left of the above square is the bank of the river with this door where "The package is in the open." I think they used different doors for the movie, though.

Walking to the left of the above door, I found the river embankment where the drunk couple was stumbling and I think where we're meant to believe what's-her-name and that-guy got stabbed, but I didn't see the big wooden gate from which they were hanging. So maybe that was filmed elsewhere.

From right about here is where they placed the camera to film Tom Cruise running away from the water spilling out of the Aquarium he just blew up with the gum. They also filmed him walking to the restaurant with St Nicholas' Church in the background (the white church on the left in the picture). The actual restaurant doesn't exist in this square, though, but we're made to think it does (I was disappointed). The square is actually the Old Town Square of Prague, with the astrological clock tower to the left of the picture and the statue and another church off to the right.

Lastly, the email from Max in the movie explicitly states the corner of Prikope and Nekazanka. Fortunately for me, this corner actually exists and is the scenery they used for that scene in the movie. "Can I trouble you for a match?"

I think I actually enjoyed stumbling across all these spots on my own rather than having a set tour that would just point them out (not that anyone would actually go on a tour for Mission: Impossible). It was fun just being looking and thinking "Oh my god, I remember that scene."