
It all kicked off in 1996 with Brian De Palma’s Mission: Impossible and since then, the series has gone on to generate eight sequels - with the latest (and some presume last) M:I film premiering today in Cannes.
Indeed, three years after flying into the Cannes Film Festival with Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise is returning to the Croisette with Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning, his rumoured swansong as superspy Ethan Hunt which screens out of competition at the 78th edition of Cannes.