A definitive ranking of all the ‘Mission: Impossible’ films from the 1996 original to ‘The Final Reckoning.’

May 25, 2025 10:08am

Modified on May 26, 2025 ,

Published on May 25, 2025

Star Tom Cruise‘s legendary willingness to do anything and everything to make each film a blockbuster while — as the franchise’s most powerful producer — savvily finding creative partners that bring out his best. In fact, Cruise is much like his IMF agent Ethan Hunt: When the man’s on a mission, he’s an unstoppable force who’ll never stop running until he saves the day — or, the summer box office. Below, The Hollywood Reporter ranks every Mission: Impossible film, including the newly released The Final Reckoning, from the very worst to the definite best.

  • Langley heist
  • Burj Khalifa climb

  • Motorcycle jump (the making-of video linked here shows an incredible amount of work that went into those few moments of footage and is perhaps the only behind-the-scenes clip where the actual stunt looks far scarier than what was shown in the film).

  • Hunt catches a plane

  • bathroom brawl, chopper chase.

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