It has been almost three decades since Tom Cruise stepped into the skintight bodysuit of Ethan Hunt and accepted his first impossible mission, and... he’s still going – without seemingly ageing a day.
The Mission Impossible franchise has shown remarkable resilience since bursting into cinemas back in 1996, raking in more than $3.5bn (£2bn) at the box office worldwide, according to BoxOfficeMojo. And it is set for another big opening next week with the arrival of the seventh instalment, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (Part One).
