Tom Cruise Plays Action Hero in MTV Spoof  5/26/05

Tom Cruise took time off filming War of the Worlds to show MTV viewers exactly what makes an action hero - by shooting a spoof commercial for the cable channel's upcoming Movie Awards.

Cruise, who will be among the presenters at the Los Angeles event on 4 June (05), spins into shot in the car his character drives in War of The Worlds and then catches a baby thrown from a burning building.

After handing the tot to its mother on the Universal Studios backlot, the action man greets a stuntman, who is wandering around with flames all over him and lifts a car off a struggling pedestrian, before striking his famous sunglasses pose and straddling the motorcycle director Steven Spielberg gave him as a gift.

All the time, Cruise chats about the art of filmmaking and how important the light-hearted MTV Movie Awards are.