The Mission: Impossible franchise is one of the most reliable franchises in modern Hollywood. Spanning more than 20 years and still ongoing, the franchise has produced a number of unbelievable action movies, and, because it’s a Paramount franchise, they also represent the most rewatchable movies on Paramount Plus.
Starring Tom Cruise as action hero Ethan Hunt, these movies are always ostensibly about Hunt as an agent of the Impossible Mission Force assigned to save various world calamities. Really, though, this franchise has just become an excuse to watch Cruise do some of the most insane things you’ve ever seen. The stunts are incredible, but just as remarkable is how consistently great these movies have been. We’re ranking the entire franchise from worst to best, but remember that most of these movies are pretty good.
7. Mission: Impossible II (2000)
6. Mission: Impossible III (2006)
5. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
4. Mission: Impossible (1996)
3. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
1. Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
1. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
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