Warning: SPOILERS for Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One are in play. If you’re not up to speed on this latest mission, you’ve been warned.
“The Net Ranger.” “Phineas Phreak.” Those aren’t nicknames you can earn easily, and as any Mission: Impossible fan knows, they both belong to someone who earned them with distinction: expert hacker Luther Stickell. Played by Ving Rhames with only the maximum levels of cool, this IMF agent is the only other player besides Tom Cruise to be present for the entire franchise. And yet, after seven movies, and with an eighth on the way, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One finally gave Luther a proper ‘big moment’ in the franchise.
