Mission: Impossible films rated from worst to best

With the release of Mission Impossible – Fallout in July, his star star Tom Cruise entered the third decade of the role of Impossible Force Mission Agent Ethan Hunt, best known for his audacity and dedication to accomplishing the even if its superiors oppose it or actively work to stop it. What began as an adaptation of the television series of the late 1960s, updated from its origins to the Cold War era, blossomed into the latest organic franchises, passing through several directors while Cruise remains the constant.

That changed with Fallout, with Christopher McQuarrie returning to the franchise as a screenwriter-director, and in the process of developing the first direct sequel to the series and the best action movie from 2018 again. But how does he huddle alongside others? To answer this question, we decided to rank the six films Mission: Impossible from the worst to the best.

6. Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)

John Woo's laser-driven approach to his remarkable talents – stylistic action sequences, which this first sequel had a lot of, including a climactic and ridiculous battle between the hero and villain – would have caused clashes with Cruise and prolonged production, the final version being a sanitized version of the Woo style for bloodshed, so as not to push the series into an unclassified territory R

. It was likely that Woo was considered a legend, and that he did not have to prove anything to anyone. In combination with the other failures of the film – an extravagant story about Alfred Hitchock's Notorious to the point of stealing scenes, and an omnipresent misogyny in intrigue and dialogue – make it an almost silly movie, and an excellent example of the term "popcorn film" used in a scathing way.

5. Mission: Impossible III (2006)

J.J. Abrams got the job after Cruise binge-watched his television series Alias, and the writer-director brought his mystery box ideas – famously used on Lost, whose development led to the gap of six years, the longest wait between chapters Mission: Impossible to franchise, putting Hunt and his team on the hunt for a Vatican MacGuffin in Shanghai. This excuse gave us some ridiculous stunts, including cruising between two high-rise towers, and surviving several drone strikes.

Between all this was the vindictive threat of Philip Seymour Hoffman, the biggest change in Abrams: The film has expanded on Hunt's personal life, giving romantic interest to the globe-trotter character and, in turn, both humanize it and give it something to fear. That would be the only episode to do it, with the rejection of the more grumpy and human touch of the audience – M: i: III was the weakest at the global box office – putting the franchise on a different path.

4. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)

Handpicked Cruise and Abrams Director of the Incredibles Brad Bird makes his directorial debut live on Ghost Protocol, which manages to transfer his cinematic kinetic style to electronic gadgets. have not worked reliably – including the important device of making latex masks – and make it more cinematic with the introduction of IMAX photography, popularized a few years ago by Christopher Nolan on The Dark Knight . from some unrealistic and impressive plays, notably Cruise that goes up and down outside the tallest building in the world, Burj Khalifa in Dubai, in addition to an expanded role for Benji's Simon Pegg, ranging from jockey office at the operative field, bringing his goofiness along the ride. But his attempts to float Jeremy Renner as a possible alternate cruiser did not work, and the foolishness of Anil Kapoor's character appeared to be regressive.

3. Mission: Impossible (1996)

Mission: Impossible was not the vehicle of Cruise to show his work ethic, with Brian De Palma – best known for his Hitchcockian thrillers and his detective series – fighting the desire to CGI's unrealistic final sequence actor involving a high-speed train and a helicopter. It's the rest of the film that shows off his style, whether it's the contrasting night shots of Prague, making one of the TV show's heroes a traitor – which has pissed off a lot of the show's fans – and the tension of the delicate nature of the work of espionage

The last of these is what propelled the central set-piece now emblematic of the original, with Hunt descending into a trunk high-tech CIA and literally hanging on a wire for the duration of his mission. De Palma was not trying to launch a franchise (probably why he said no to come back as a director for the future) and he threw out all his ideas, creating a story that sometimes tangled up but exciting and effective nevertheless. 19659002]

Christopher McQuarrie took over where Bird left him and pushed the series in the same direction, succeeding where Bird failed: Rebecca's introduction Ferguson to Mission: Impossible as British intelligence agent Ilsa Faust who can more than defend himself against Hunt and bring back the romantic tension is easily the best part of the film, neither of which the character Renner did or could do.

At the same time, McQuarrie adopted the best parts of the other entries by casting his first Hunt business as critics have noticed – a nasty villain apparent to the Abrams movie , and by shifting the loyalties of the original – and increased ante on himself tee ideas with the full support of Cruise, giving us the madness of Hunt holding on a plane as he takes his breath or holding his breath under the water for several minutes, filmed exclusively in long shots.

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