Tom Cruise has been mounting unreal yet slick spy adventure thrillers in the form of the mega-blockbuster ‘Mission: Impossible’ franchise. Tom Cruise’s star and sexual appeal with some magnificent locations and stunts have kept the franchise afloat after more than two decades.In the 1960s decade, the franchise started as a television series.
The protagonist Peter Graves along with the supporting characters goes on espionage missions assigned by the Impossible Missions Force (IMF). However, the weekly show lacked the grandiose that has evolved with each Tom Cruise flick. However, there were many flaws and magnanimous moments with every film in the franchise. We present you the list of every ‘M:I’ film ranked.
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6) Mission: Impossible II
It was encouraging to see that the director John Woo took over the direction of the film completely. However, the mission failed with this one! The second film in the franchise ‘Mission: Impossible II’ is about Ethan Hunt embarking on a mission in the middle of the vacation to stop the vicious Sean Ambrose from starting a pandemic with the bio-weapon Chimera. The critics and audience unanimously deemed the film the dullest in the franchise by dragging the action cliches into it.
5) Mission: Impossible III
One of the most revered directors in Hollywood, J.J. Abrams took up the challenge to undo the previous film’s loopholes. And, he succeeded in doing so! Abrams had a mammoth task to establish the glory of the franchise and contribute to turning Ethan Hunt played by Tom Cruise, the suavest and most lethal spy in Hollywood’s spy franchises.
In ‘Mission: Impossible III’, Abrams has a familial conflict where the bad guy Owen Davian (stellar Philip Seymour Hoffman) abducts Ethan’s wife, Julia Meade. There are many praiseworthy elements in the franchise including one of the slickest disguise sequences in the franchise.
4) Mission: Impossible- Ghost Protocol
The US government disown Impossible Missions Force (IMF) after a lethal bombing in Russia activating the ‘Ghost Protocol’. The government accuses Ethan Hunt of the attack while he was in Russia with Jane Carter and Benji Dunn to procure information about Cobalt. The team is solely responsible for hunting down the real man with the moniker ‘Cobalt’.
‘Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol’ welcomed Brad Bird as the director. The film is one of the most celebrated films in the franchise as Bird raised the stakes with this fourth installment, making Tom perform a stunt on the world’s tallest building while executing the famous disguise trope. It added $694 million to the humongous $3.578 worldwide collection.
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3) Mission: Impossible
Brian DePalma’s vision made it possible to pioneer a successful, billion-dollar film franchise from an archived, successful show. The first installment, ‘Mission: Impossible’, the franchise, villainized the hero from the original television show.
Ethan Hunt becomes part of Jim Phelps’ Impossible Mission Force (IMF) team. However, while shielding a highly classified material, the team gets attacked and Hunt is the sole surviving member.
This blames him that he plans the kill. So, he goes on a mission to prove his innocence and find the perpetrator of the killing. De Palma successfully lays the path down for those nail-biting, impossible stunt sequences with the vault sequence in the film.
2) Mission: Impossible- Fallout
There are many new additions and revivals with the sixth installment of the ‘M:I’ franchise. The sixth film ‘Mission: Impossible-Fallout’ is an unencumbered, fallout drama thriller with Christopher McQuarrie helming it.
Solomon Lane gets arrested in ‘Mission: Impossible-Rogue Nation’. Now, the followers of his organization The Syndicate, which becomes a fundamentalist organization The Apostles are planning an attack.
The IMF is informed that they are planning to combust the Vatican City. They are making a deal to procure plutonium cores, but Hunt and Co. fail to intercept the deal and now they have gotten the plutonium from The Apostles with many hurdles in between.
1) Mission: Impossible- Rogue Nation
While the ‘M:I’ series is characterized by glossy stunts and exquisite locations, Christopher McQuairre’s debut in the franchise with ‘Mission: Impossible-Rogue Nation’ defies it. McQuarrie built one of the best Ethan Hunt narratives in the entire franchise. He maintained the integrity of the original tropes, but along with the film, it gave Ethan Hunt a characterization. In the fifth installment, the team is tracing Syndicate’s radioactive gas to Syria and Ethan has to stop it while being on the run from the organization. It collected $682 million worldwide.
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