2 w. ago Impossibly frustrating: why Mission: Impossible 8 was a major letdown

Audiences may have flocked to the Final Reckoning but Tom Cruise’s latest mission ends up being incredibly underwhelmingIf the title is sincere, and this really is the final reckoning, then it’s been a franchise of two halves. Mission: Impossible diehards tend to underrate the first half (which ran from Brian De Palma’s brisk 1996 original to 2011’s fun Ghost Protocol) as much as they overrate the second (which launched with 2015’s Rogue Nation). Yet the rumbles and grumbles emanating from public screenings suggests a disgruntled consensus is forming around the concluding instalment: that this is an altogether disjointed way to resolve the affairs of Ethan Hunt and his IMF crew, and a shaky way to ignite the movie summer season. Ninety minutes in which nothing happens over and over again, followed by 70 minutes of M:I B-roll.To better diagnose this latest glitch in the Hollywood machine, we need to return to the relighting of the fuse. This was the franchise to which Tom Cruise retr...

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2 w. ago Tom Cruise's Oscar nominated Mission Impossible film airs tonight on TV

Tom Cruise has starred as the lead in the Mission Impossible series for eight films and with the final instalment now in cinemas, fans can refresh their memories on TV tonight

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2 w. ago Hayley Atwell reveals Tom Cruise's extraordinary gift to her grandmother

The actress, 43, has built up a close friendship with Cruise, 62, while starring alongside him in the last two Mission: Impossible films

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3 w. ago Tom Cruise says it ‘took decades to figure out’ latest Mission Impossible stunt

Cruise debuted the latest installment of the ‘Mission Impossible’ franchise at the Cannes Film Festival

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3 w. ago Tom Cruise wants to make movies until he’s into his 100s but doesn’t want to be ‘last great movie star’

‘There are so many other talented actors out there and I want to see them crush it,’ said the actor, when speaking about the younger stars in Hollywood

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3 w. ago Mission: Impossible became a Tom Cruise vanity project – their demise could save him

Since 1996, the actor has used the long-running franchise as a vessel for the kind of star image he wants to project at any given time: bad boy, devoted husband, daredevil, mysterious saviour of the world. As the series reaches its possible conclusion, Adam White ponders who Cruise could be without them

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3 w. ago Mission: Impossible ranked – All eight Tom Cruise blockbusters, from worst to best

As the perpetually building-climbing Ethan Hunt faces ‘The Final Reckoning’, Adam White and Louis Chilton rank all eight of the Mission movies (so far?) – from the one with Philip Seymour Hoffman to the one with all the slow-motion doves

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3 w. ago Simon Pegg details 'brutal' filming conditions on Mission Impossible final movie

Simon Pegg has opened up about the final Mission Impossible movie, in which he reprises his role as Benji Dunn

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3 w. ago Simon Pegg recalls 'brutal' conditions Mission Impossible cast filmed in

Simon Pegg appeared on The One Show alongside his Mission Impossible co-star Hannah Waddingham

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3 w. ago Every Mission: Impossible film: Here are all 8 of the Tom Cruise action films rated best to worst

The latest (and maybe last) of one of the most successful film franchaises of all time is about to hit cinemas.

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3 w. ago Show me the tummy! Tom Cruise doesn’t need sleep, help or clothes in Mission: Impossible

The Hollywood icon defies age and Arctic climes to save the world in the epic messianic spectacle The Final Reckoning. But why won’t he bare his soul?Tom Cruise spends about 30% of the final Mission: Impossible movie in his knickers. It being a very long film, that’s a lot of time spent looking at his body, glossy and gnarled and expensive as a walnut armoire, possibly in high-definition Imax and, even if not, certainly as big as a bus.In The Final Reckoning, Cruise unbuttons to wallop goons (twice), wriggle from the Arctic seabed towards the waves, hop on a treadmill and take a long hot shower in front of the crew of a strikingly camp US military submarine. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Princess Andre wows on Mission Impossible red carpet in Leicester Square alongside dad Peter

Princess Andre posed for pictures on the Mission Impossible red carpet as fans brace for the final film in the Mission Impossible series, 'The Final Reckoning'

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4 w. ago Inside the Mission Impossible Cannes premiere as Tom Cruise fans queue for over six hours

Tom Cruise fans were so eager to see his new Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning film that they queued for over six hours outside of the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday evening

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4 w. ago Best Tom Cruise Films: Here are all 15 of the Mission: Impossible star's best movies ranked

The star of the Mission: Impossible and Top Gun franchises has an impressive and varied filmography.

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4 w. ago Tom Cruise’s 10 wildest stunts from the Mission: Impossible franchise as new movie lands

From scaling the Burj Khalifa to piloting a helicopter, here are some of the actor’s most daring stunts

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4 w. ago Tom Cruise and Mission: Impossible cast members break red carpet rule at Cannes premiere

The rule was introduced in 2018 to protect the ‘quality’ of the red carpet and film festival as a whole

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4 w. ago Tom Cruise shares an affectionate moment with Mission: Impossible ex Hayley Atwell at the Cannes Film Festival premiere of new movie

The actress, 43, is the leading lady of the film and has reprised her role as Grace, a former thief turned IMF agent and ally to Tom's Ethan Hunt.

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4 w. ago Pom Klementieff goes braless in a plunging lilac gown as she defies the new Cannes Film Festival dress code for star

Pom Klementieff left little to the imagination as she attended the star-studded Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning premiere during the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday evening. 

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4 w. ago Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning review: did someone not get the party time memo?

Despite Tom Cruise stripping down to his swimming trunks, this is missing Vanessa Kirby and a stunt as breathtaking as the previous instalment

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4 w. ago Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is a massive Tom Cruise ego trip, and I absolutely adored it

This (potentially final) entry in the long-running franchise is inherently absurd, but who cares?

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