What is the best Mission: Impossible movie?

By YPB Team

From Cold War espionage intrigue to jaw-dropping modern stunt spectacles, the franchise has reinvented itself with every entry. Which one sticks the landing?

Fallout (2018)

Widely regarded as the franchise's high-water mark: the HALO jump, the bathroom fight, the helicopter chase — all captured in-camera by a returning Christopher McQuarrie.

1000pts

Ghost Protocol (2011)

The franchise-defining installment featuring the Burj Khalifa free-climb, a dazzling IMAX-filmed set piece that rekindled global enthusiasm for the series.

666pts

Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)

John Woo's kinetic action spectacle pitting Ethan Hunt against a rogue IMF agent in a deadly viral-bioweapon plot, with signature slow-motion gunplay and motorcycle combat.

399pts

Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)

The breathtaking penultimate chapter featuring a train sequence filmed practically on a cliff-edge railway, raising the franchise's action ante once more.

399pts

Mission: Impossible (1996)

Brian De Palma's stylish spy thriller that launched the franchise, featuring the iconic CIA vault heist sequence and Ethan Hunt's first impossible mission.

0pts

Mission: Impossible III (2006)

J.J. Abrams's franchise revitalization with Philip Seymour Hoffman's terrifying villain Davian, introducing emotional stakes through Ethan's personal life.

0pts

Rogue Nation (2015)

Ethan Hunt's globetrotting battle against the Syndicate, highlighted by a breathtaking zero-oxygen underwater vault heist and the Casablanca car-and-motorcycle chase.