The Final Reckoning, Tom Cruise hangs from a flaming biplane and dodges missiles at the bottom of the ocean. But the movie’s most inspired stunt has nothing to do with death-defying acrobatics. It’s the return of CIA analyst William Donloe (Rolf Saxon).

Here, they’re ranked according to how each serves the core mission of Mission: Impossible, which is to carpet-bomb audiences with pulse-pounding derring-do as they snack on popcorn in the dark. Image Credit: Christian Black/Paramount/Skydance/Everett Collection One of Hollywood’s most annoying trends is the splitting of movies into two “parts,

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is obsessed with the franchise's history, but it ignores one of its most important characters.

His longtime stunt coordinator and second unit director Wade Eastwood told The Times of London newspaper how drained the actor was by one particular stunt in the eighth (and apparently final) instalment of his hit franchise Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning – one which involved him walking on the wing of a small biplane mid-air.

"The Final Reckoning" director goes behind the scenes on creating the most dangerous "Mission: Impossible" scene ever.

If you watch all the Mission: Impossible movies in order, a clear connecting narrative emerges. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), a patriotic, idealistic undercover agent, is betrayed both by his government and the mole within it. The team he trusts and relies on ...

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