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Ranking Every ‘Mission: Impossible’ Movie, From Worst to Best
With the release of 'Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning,' the Tom Cruise series is ranked from its worst entry to its best.
Villain Dougray Scott, looking like an artist’s rendering of a genetic splicing of Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen, isn’t up to the task of intimidating Tom Cruise — an insult added to the injury of losing out on playing Wolverine in “X-Men” as a result of taking the role. An absolutely ruthless Philip Seymour Hoffman remains one of the best adversaries Cruise faces in the series, and as much as Abrams likes to cute-ify Ethan Hunt’s life in between missions, he creates the super spy’s purest civilian relationship with Julia Meade (Michelle Monaghan), which elevates every subsequent film from (basically) a James Bond riff to a saga with meaningful emotional connections — and stakes. But as a high-stakes tentpole film with a well-modulated sense of humor about itself (“Mission accomplished!” triumphantly — if mistakenly — shouts Ethan at one point), “Ghost Protocol” firmly and permanently roots the series in the realm of adult entertainment by finding a perfect balance between briskness and nail-biting intensity — something that the best subsequent installments not only carried forward, but further deepened.
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