Summary

• Each Mission: Impossible movie distinguishes itself with unique tones and set pieces.
• Mission: Impossible 2 and 3 offer strikingly different experiences, with mixed reviews.
• Mission: Impossible - Fallout is considered the best in the series and one of the greatest action movies ever.

The first 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mission: Impossible immediately made an impact when it came out in 1996, and since then, the franchise has continued with seven sequels over the last three decades. Inspired by the 196🎃6 TV show of the same name, each movie follows Eth⭕an Hunt (Tom Cruise) as he performs deadly stunts and outwits nefarious villains to save the world from potential destruction.

Though many of the Mission: Impossible movies share common elements like mask reveals and nifty gadgets, each distinguishes itself with a unique tone or specific set pieces and locations. 2025's The Final Reckoning seems to be the eighth a🐭nd possibly last installment of the series as we kn⛦ow it, so we've decid﷽ed to take on the nail-biting task of ranking all the Mission:𝐆 Impossible movies.

8 Mission: Impossible 2 𝕴 🐬

• Director: John Woo
• Year: 2000

One of the most interesting aspects of the first half of the Mission: Impossible series is that each movie had a different director who implemented their trademark style to make each entry feel vastly different from the one before. While John Woo, a renowned director of movies like A Better Tomorrow and Facꦐe/Off, seemed like a good fit on paper, the final product led to the most divisive entry in th🗹e series.

You either love or hate ꧙Mission: Impossible 2, and there doesn't seem to be any middle ground. While the action is spectacularly cheesy, it's hard not to be dis🍸tracted by the frequent slow-motion shots and bored by the lackluster story. To make things worse, this version of Ethan Hunt is smug, arrogant, and almost feels like a different character than the one in the other films.

7 📖 Mission: Impossible 3

• Director: J.J. Abrams
• Year: 2006

Mission: Impossible 3 is a massive jump forward in quality compared to its predecessor, but it has certain quirks and ideas that prevent it from being considered one of the best in the series. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Directed by J.J. Abrams, the movie begins wit🦩h a retired Ethan Hunt as he tries to start a new, quieter life, but is eventually dragged back into the IMF to help them secure a mysterious item knꦓown as the Rabbit's Foot.

One of the highlights of Mission: Impossible 3 is Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance as Owen Davian, one of the most sinister villains in the entire series. The movie is definitely a fun ride from beginning to end, but it♛s visual style is incredibly distracting, and certain moments, like Tom Cruise seemingly breaking the fourth wall to say "Humpty D💖umpty sat on a wall", feel out of place and break the immersion.

6 Mission🎀: Impossible - The Final Reckoning 🐻

• Director: Christopher McQuarrie
• Year: 2025

The Final Reckoning is meant to feel like the last chapter of the thirty-year franchise, but it spends so much time trying to connect unnecessary dots with lengthy exposition dumps that it loses one of the key elements of the series - fun. While the stakes have never been higher, the entire atmosphere around the movie is surrounded by a lingering🍌 sense of dread that feels like the antithesis of Mission: Impossible.

Despite the tone and unnecessary amount of dialogue, The Final Reckoning features two massive set pieces that will leave you on the edge of your seat. It takes a long time to reach either of these moments, and the movie does an exce𝔍llent job of acting as a love letter to the rest of the series, but it would've been great to see The Final Reckoning focus less on story and more on breathtaking action sequences and fun spy shenanigans.

5 ♑ Mission: Impossible

• Director: Brian De Palma
• Year: 1996

The original Mission: Impossible is a tense espionage thriller that introduces key elements like face masks and the self-exploding mission briefings that would define tℱhe rest of the franchise. After Ethan Hunt is framed for the murder of his IMF team, he must go rogue with a few allies to clear his name and protect the identities of his fellow undercover agents.

This Mission: Impossible strikes a perfect balance between action and the complex politics behind this mysterious government operation. It fo🥀cuses much more on the characters themselves, which makes all the double-crossing and backstabbing even more exciting. Despite the events of the original movie having little to no impact on its many sequels, it's still a fantastic action movie that drafted a blueprint for success.

4 Mission: Impossible -ಌ Dead Reckoning

• Director: Christopher McQuarrie
• Year: 2023

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning is a jam-packed film that contains some of the best stunts in the entire series꧂ while setting up the pieces for Ethan Hunt's last assignment. Featuring an all-star cast of familiar faces and the introduction of Grace (Hayley Atwell), Dead Reckoning has a ton of plates to spin and somehow manages to make it through its almost three-hour runtime without dropping any of them.

The two things dragging Dead Reckoning down compared to other Mission: Impossible movies are that it's clearly only the first half of a longer story, and it introduces one of the least charismatic and most forgettable adversaries in Gabriel, an ex-IMF agent 💞with roots in Ethan's past. Aside from these elements, Dead Reckoning is a thrill from the airport chase sequence to the final confrꦚontation on a train that consumes the last forty minutes of the adventure.

3 Miss🤪ion: Impossible - Rogue Nation

• Director: Christopher McQuarrie
• Year: 2015

Despite being the fifth entry in the series, Rogue Nation feels like the first chapter of a new era for Mission: Impossible. Christopher McQuarrie takes plenty of the key elements from Ghost Protocol and expands on them to create a globe-trotting adventure filled with exhilarating action scenes, cool gadgets, and a surprising amount of humor from the main group of Ethan, Luther,൩ Benji,🍒 and Brandt.

Rogue Nation doesn't waste 🔴any time as it starts with the infamous scene of Ethan hanging off the side of a plane as it takes off, and that's somehow not even the wildest thing in the movie. Froꦇm needing to hold his breath underwater for six minutes and an epic chase scene through Morocco, Rogue Nation successfully raises the stakes higher than ever before while giving you plenty of time to grow closer to both new and familiar faces.

2 Mission: Imposs💫ible - Ghost Protocol

• Director: Brad Bird
• Year: 2011

The first three Mission: Impossible movies feel completely different from each other, for better and worse. While it's nice that you could throw any of them on without needing any previous context to enjoy them, the lack of continuity ma🦩de it difficult to feel emotionally attached to anyone besides Ethan. The fourth entry, Ghost Protocol, changes the formula by developing characters and plot points tha♏t anchor the rest of the series while also figuring out how to market Tom Cruise's stunt work to draw in wider audiences.

With a gripping plot and a solid cast of characters, Ghost Protocol begins with an unforgettable prison escape and continues to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:up the ante until the epic finale. The Burj Khalifa scene is easily one of the most thrilling action sequences in the entire series, and Tom Cruise's commitment to performing without a stunt-double becomes an essential par🥂t of the marketing and success of later entries.

1 💖 Mission: Impossible - Fallout

Mission: Impossible - Fallout takes everything from its predecessors and refines them to create not only the best film in the historic series, but one of the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:best action movies of all time. This non-stop thrill ride fe⭕atures spectacular performances from the entire cast, a complex and intriguing plot that's surprisingly easy to♐ follow, and phenomenal action sequences that somehow get better every time you watch them.

Similar to other genre-defining movies like Mad Max: Fury Road, Fallout starts at a steady pace and continues to builꦉd its momentum up to the final confrontation. From an immersive HALO jump to a blood-pumping fist fight in a bathroom and beyond, Fallout rarely gi🙈ves you a chance to catch your breath, and when it does, it continues to draw you in with well-written characters who have developed palpable relationships since Ghost Protocol. It's rare for the sixth movie in a franchise to be regarded as the best, but Fallout proves that nothing is truly impossible.