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name: "Mission: Impossible"
canonical: "https://film.one/collections/mission-impossible"
films: 5
series: 0
years: "1996–2025"
average_fi1m_score: 77
updated: "2026-09-19T08:56:09.011818+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Mission: Impossible

Tom Cruise running, for thirty years.

**Which order?** Release order; the series gets better from the fourth.

Best on Fi1m: [*Mission: Impossible - Fallout*](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible-fallout.md) (87).

## The films, in release order

1. [*Mission: Impossible*](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible.md) (1996) — Fi1m 81: Brian De Palma’s spy thriller is tense, ingenious entertainment, with Tom Cruise making its elaborate schemes feel urgent. The screenplay makes a simple task needlessly difficult to follow, but the set-pieces are worth the trouble.
2. [*Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol*](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible-ghost-protocol.md) (2011) — Fi1m 82: Brad Bird makes a tense, funny team adventure out of unreliable gadgets and difficult jobs. The villain is thin and the pace slips later, but the action is unusually easy to follow and hard to sit through calmly.
3. [*Mission: Impossible - Fallout*](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible-fallout.md) (2018) — Fi1m 87: Christopher McQuarrie delivers forceful, unusually clear action, with Tom Cruise making the danger matter through sheer physical effort. The spy plot is needlessly tangled, and 147 minutes is generous, but we recommend it for the stunts.
4. [*Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One*](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-part-one.md) (2023) — Fi1m 74: Christopher McQuarrie stages three of the best action sequences the series has produced and wraps them in an hour of people explaining an algorithm to each other. Worth your evening for the Rome chase alone; bring patience for the briefings.
5. [*Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning*](https://film.one/film/mission-impossible-the-final-reckoning.md) (2025) — Fi1m 63: Christopher McQuarrie’s eighth *Mission: Impossible* has two set pieces, one under the sea and one in the air, as good as any the series has produced. It also has an hour of people explaining the plot to each other before either arrives.

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