Mission: Impossible – our ranking of the films of the franchise, from the worst to the best

Tom Cruise has been running at full speed for 30 years to save the world in the guise of Ethan Hunt. While Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Sort of cinema is the perfect time to take stock of a franchise that will have marked the history of cinema.

Fallout,, Ghost protocol,, Dead Reckoning… Digital below offers you its ranking of the hues movies de la saga Mission: Impossible.

What are the worst and the best films Mission: Impossible ?

8th – Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)

New mission for Ethan Hunt, who must recover a genetically modified virus, called the chimera. Sean Ambrose took hold of the antidote and earth in a secret laboratory in Sydney. His ex-master, Nyah Hall, could be useful in her attempts to infiltrate this highly protected HQ.

Tom Cruise twirls in front of the Hong Kongais John Woo (flip-flop, The Killer) camera for a pure product of the 2000s. The film has some absurd scenes and is clearly the one that has aged the franchise, but it is worth the detour just for a breathtaking introductory sequence, and the Bizkit jubilatory.

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7th – Mission: Impossible 3 (2006)

Ethan Hunt hoped to have turned a page by leaving the mission force impossible for a trainer position. But when Lindsey, the most brilliant recruit of the MFI “falls” in Berlin, for Ethan, it is much more than a failure: it is a personal bankruptcy, which he must be redeemed as quickly as possible.

Hateful of the success of the series Alias And Lostdirector JJ Abrams finds himself in charge of this third film. A Tom Cruise still as energetic, Philip Seymour Hoffmann formidable as a big bad guy, and the arrival in the franchise of Simon Pegg and Michelle Monaghan. An unequal opus, but which remains entertaining.

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6th – Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)

Direct suite of Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Continue to follow Ethan Hunt and his team in their fight against the entity, an artificial intelligence capable of influencing the world. A freed from the CIA orders, Hunt will try to put an end to this unprecedented threat, which everyone wants to obtain control. But to defeat it, he will have to sacrifice what is most expensive in the world.

Designed as the final point of the saga, Impossible mission: The Final Reckoning Closing the franchise in apotheosis. A combination certainly a little wobbly and praised by its ambitions, but full of disproportionate action, emotions and global issues. Above all, she has for her an Ethan Hunt more vulnerable than ever, in a final mission that looks like a baroud of honor.

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5th – Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (2023)

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most perilous mission: to track down a terrible new weapon before it falls into bad hands and threatens the whole of humanity. The destiny of the world is therefore at stake. While the dark forces of his past reappear, Ethan is embarking on a deadly race around the globe. Faced with a powerful and enigmatic enemy, the intrepid understands that nothing can be placed above his mission, not even the life of his loved ones.

In turn roller coaster of adrenaline and ambitious and labyrinthine spying thriller, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning succeeds in his bet by nailing us at the seat thanks to breathtaking sequences and at his breathless pace. If the film is less mastered than the previous one Falloutand cluttered by a falsely convoluted plot, this remains a new mission accomplished for Tom Cruise.

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4th – Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)

Ethan Hunt and his team are now attacking the most impossible missions: eliminating the union, a secret and unscrupulous international organization. The latter will prove as powerful as it is resolved to destroy the impossible mission force.

A fifth opus for the franchise and a fifth director behind the camera in the person of Christopher Mcquarrie. Starting from the good bases of the previous film, Rogue Nation stands out as a spectacular, sophisticated and devilishly effective blockbuster. It is also the arrival of Rebecca Ferguson in the franchise. At the top of the basket.

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3rd – Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)

Ethan Hunt, accompanied by his team from the Mission agency Impossible and helped by some faithful allies, is launched in a race against the watch following the terrible failure of a mission.

Fallout Opens the horizons and explodes the challenges of this new mission, both for the world and for Ethan Hunt. A more intimate and personal adventure than ever, with a gravitas poignant and strictly mind -blowing waterfalls. Faced with Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill is an addition of welcome size and intensity. Very good.

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2nd – Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)

After being involved in a global terrorist plot, the Mission Impossible Agency is forced to stop its activities. The ghost protocol is set up: Ethan Hunt and his new team must operate in secret to whiten the name of the organization. No help, no contact, total insulation! This mission will prove to be the most dangerous and the most intense they had to fill.

The opus of Soft Reboot de la franchise, led by the talented director Brad Bird (Indestructibles,, In pursuit of tomorrow). More generous towards his secondary characters, this fourth film repels the visual ambitions of the franchise and offers an inventive and enjoyable adventure for the spectator. In high point, the scene of Burj Khalifa, stunning. The best franchise film?

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1st – Mission: Impossible (1996)

The members of a CIA commando are sent to Prague with the mission of apprehending, during a reception in the Embassy, ​​an enemy spy which is about to steal a disk containing the secret list of agents in Central Europe. Only, they ignore that the CIA, convinced that the commando is infiltrated by a mole, sent a second team on the spot.

Directed by Brian de Palma, this first film of the franchise is that of the cult scene of Tom Cruise suspended, which will finish cement it as an actor of a full -fledged action film. It is also the opus of the French, with Jean Reno and Emmanuelle Béart in pretty roles.

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