Our mission, should we choose to accept it? Ranking every film in the Mission: Impossible franchise.
In the years since the classic 1966 espionage TV show was rebooted by Brian De Palma in 1996, Tom Cruise’s action franchise has gone on to become a modern Hollywood stalwart. While the films took a while to really find their footing, Mission: Impossible has also been one of the most reliably enjoyable franchises out there, with every entry having something to recommend it: balletic fight choreography; audacious, death-defying stunts; Shea Whigham.
