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Netflix's July slate includes the first five "Mission: Impossible" movies, and to celebrate, I ranked them from best to worst. And it was pretty tough.

Before Mission: Impossible -- The Final Reckoning hits theaters in May, dive back into the history of Ethan Hunt and the Impossible Missions Force.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning director Christopher McQuarrie has revealed why the movie didn't kill off Ethan Hunt. The recent entry in the blockbuster franchise is touted as the ...

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning co-writer/director Christopher McQuarrie talks thinking about killing Ethan Hunt, and why that didn't happen.

Image: Paramount When the eighth Mission: Impossible film changed its title to “ The Final Reckoning,” we all had the same thought: Tom Cruise’s character, Ethan Hunt, was going to die.

Honestly the the way Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning ends is so great that Tom Cruise should probably retire Ethan Hunt on a good note.

So when the Mission: Impossible X account posted about his “sub,” plenty of fans took that to mean only one thing: “His name is Ethan Hunt,” one user joked. “His sub. His rules.

Over eight installments, the “Mission: Impossible” franchise has never quite found the perfect match for Tom Cruise’s world-saving spy.

Creating Tom Cruise’s pivotal scene for “The Final Reckoning” required months of grit, G-force training and a little hypothermia.