Of course, killing off Ethan Hunt in The Final Reckoning would have meant that the door to any future Tom Cruise-led Mission: Impossible installments would have been firmly shut.

Through eight Mission: Impossible movies across three decades, Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt clearly had his favorite teammates among the Impossible Mission Force. Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) ...

It’s almost hard to believe, but Tom Cruise has been playing Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible franchise for over 25 years. The series of films is still going strong, with two more movies ...