Every Mission: Impossible Movie on movie.guru: The Top 8, Ranked

Eight missions, nearly thirty years of Tom Cruise sprinting. Ranked by movie.guru score, the blend of critics and audiences. Argue with the math, not me.

Two movies tied at 9.1. Only one walks away with the top spot.

1. 8
   Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)3.7

   Doves, slow motion, and the franchise's only real misfire.

   A 3.7 movie.guru score, and audiences beat just 20% of movies with it. Still pulled $546 million worldwide, because 2000 would pay to watch anything in slow motion.
2. 7
   Mission: Impossible (1996)5.9

   Way better than 5.9. De Palma built the whole template.

   IMDb gives it 7.2 from 525,648 votes. The score feels stingy for the movie that made hanging from a wire the series' signature move.
3. 6
   Mission: Impossible III (2006)6.4

   Philip Seymour Hoffman is the scariest villain this series ever had.

   A 6.4 score and an A− CinemaScore, yet only $134 million domestic, the lowest on this list. People skipped the one with the best bad guy.
4. 5
   Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)7.6

   Too much exposition, too much budget, ranked too high.

   Crowds lifted it to 7.6, beating 83% of movies with audiences. A reported $300 to 400 million budget, and Guru's Take is a cooler 6.5.
5. 4
   Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)7.9

   Should be top three. It's the most fun one.

   94% on Rotten Tomatoes, $694 million worldwide, Guru's Take 8.4. Brad Bird gives Simon Pegg real field work and the whole movie loosens up.
6. 3
   Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)8.2

   Rebecca Ferguson is the reason this series got great.

   An 8.2 score, 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, $710 million worldwide. Ferguson matches Cruise move for move, and McQuarrie found the formula he'd ride for a decade.
7. 2
   Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)9.1

   A 9.1 for half a movie is generous.

   Ties Fallout at 9.1 and beat 93% of movies with audiences. Great train sequence, but a reported $291 million on a story that stops mid-sentence.
8. 1
   Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)9.1

   The best action movie of its decade, not just this franchise.

   98% on Rotten Tomatoes, 87 on Metacritic, $824 million worldwide, the series high. Henry Cavill's mustache deserved its own billing.

$577 says the first comment is someone defending Mission: Impossible 2, and they bring up the motorcycles.

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