While 'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning' reigns at the box office, here's a recap of all seven past thrilling adventures of Ethan Hunt

Time of India

19-05-2025

As '
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
' has made it to the theatres and is enjoying a successful box office, fans around the world are once again hooked by
Ethan Hunt
's high-stakes, heart-racing escapades. Through espionage, betrayal, and impossible odds,
Tom Cruise
, since 1996, has taken us on an adrenaline-fueled journey. With the last chapter now unfolding on the big screen, here's a full-throttle recap of every mission that led us to this climactic finale.
Mission: Impossible
Ethan Matthew Hunt is the protagonist of the 'Mission: Impossible' series, starring Tom Cruise. This character is a highly skilled agent and works for the Impossible Missions Force, which is a secret government agency for handling high-stakes cases. In this first part, Ethan acts as the point man of the
Impossible Missions Force
led by his mentor, veteran Jim Phelps. It takes a tragic turn when the mentor is killed, and the prime suspect of his murder is Ethan. To prove his innocence while not getting caught, he gets information from the computer of a tightly guarded building with the help of a pilot named Franz Krieger and a hacker named Luther Stickell.
Mission: Impossible 2
In this part, Ethan has been sent to retrieve a deadly German virus known as 'Chimera' as a team lead before it is released by Sean Ambrose, a terrorist. The impossibility of this mission was that he was not the only one who was after this virus. So, he was competing with international terrorists and a former agent who is a bad version of himself and has stolen the cure already.
'Mission: Impossible 3'
In the third part, Ethan is a 'semi-retired' agent who wants to settle down with his fiancée, Julia Meade, who has no idea of him being an Impossible Missions Force agent. He was forced to come back to duty when a former student got captured in a mission in Germany. To track down the arms dealer 'Owen Davian,' his wife gets abducted. With the help of his team, he finds the 'Rabbit's Foot,' which is a dangerous mystery item, gets back his wife, and kills Owen.
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'Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol'
In the fourth film, Ethan and his teammates escaping a prison mission are blamed for planning an attack to destroy the Kremlin. Despite the lack of their usual resources, they have to stop Hendricks, a former Soviet nuclear strategist who plans to start a nuclear war. As they are following Hendricks, they come across a Russian agent team who have an upper hand every time. Ethan manages to pull the team members together when each one of them is facing and fighting their own battles. They stop the nuclear bomb and clear the name of the Impossible Missions Force. Also, we get to know that all this time Ethan faked Julia's death to protect her.
'Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation'
Mission Impossible-Rogue Nation: Stunt featurette
In this fifth movie of this series, the Impossible Missions Force is officially disbanded, but a new threat comes to Ethan named 'Syndicate.' Syndicate is a set of skilled operatives who are dedicated to establishing a new world through terrorist attacks. He and his former team, along with agent 'Ilsa Faust.' Further, we get to know that disbanding was just a cover to track the syndicate down.
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'Mission: Impossible – Fallout'
After Ethan captures the leader of the Syndicate, the remaining members join another group known as 'Apostles.' Under the leadership of John Lark, the team aims to have three plutonium cores, and Ethan and his team's mission is to stop and end the attacks once and for all. The mission fails when Ethan saves Luther, and the Apostles escape with the plutonium. Now, with agent 'August Walker,' Ethan and his team must find the plutonium cores before it's too late.
Mission: Impossible - Fallout - The Making
'Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One'
In the seventh movie, Ethan and his team try to find a dangerous weapon before it falls into someone else's hands, as it threatens humanity. A mission that questions Ethan about what is more important—the mission or his friends. He struggles to find the two halves of a key to stop a crooked artificial intelligence known as 'The Entity.' In this, he faces the German terrorist who is the murderer of his girlfriend Marie, which led Ethan to become an agent of the Impossible Missions Force
'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning'
In this part of the series, Ethan is following Gabriel from getting that artificial intelligence program, 'The Entity.' In this, we get that the world is still on the verge of ending, and Ethan Matthew Hunt is still running to save it.
Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning - Official Trailer