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.
Motorcycle joust (it’s absurd, but so very John Woo).
Hunt’s manic sprint through Shanghai
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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