Tom Cruise Movies: In Theaters: ****Mission Impossible Final Reckoning (2025)

 The entire movie I was waiting for the wing walking which I had heard about.  It came in the final 20 minutes.  

This movie has a formidable villain in Gabriel (Esai Morales) who seems unstoppable at the first of the show.  He has set up a trap in which he has Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) in a trap, either save yourself and many people die, or disarm the bomb and only you die.  He chooses to save the any people and is killed.  Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is again all over the place doing impossible things.  It seems Gabriel is always a step ahead.  They are battling over a key which would give control of the AI which is taking over the world.  

One mistake that Gabriel makes is to betray his side kick, Paris (Pom Klementieff) who then becomes an asset knowing inside doings of Gabriel's network.  Grace (Hayley Aywell) continues as Hunt's love interest and spy.  Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) is a more active part of the team and is in harm's way.  

The plane walking comes in when it appears that all is lost, and Hunt jumps from his plane to that of Gabriel, and has to walk the wing to continue the fight.  

Plenty of action and lots of fun.  I think this may be the final Mission Impossible.

Tom Cruise Movie: ****Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One 2023

 In this movie the bad guy is an AI called The Entity.  It is unleashed when two keys are used.  Whoever controls the keys can control the world.  Efforts are made to buy one of the keys which is missing.  This movie includes some incredible motorcycle work and catching a train at full speed jumping off the bike and using a paraglider.and later the train going off a bridge.  Some incredible action.  

Fun movie with incredible action

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  Tom Cruise

  Ethan Hunt
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  Hayley Atwell

  Grace
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  Ving Rhames

  Luther Stickell
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  Simon Pegg

  Benji Dunn
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  Rebecca Ferguson

  Ilsa Faust

Tom Cruise Movies

This is a list of Tom Cruise movies with a link to the ones I have reviewed.  Please note I avoid R rated movies so the anthology is not complete.

Taps (1981)

The Outsiders (1983)

Legend (1985)

Top Gun (1986)

***^ Rain Man (1988) With Dustin Hoffman playing the autistic brother

Days of Thunder (1990)

***^ Far and Away (1992) opening of Oklahoma with Nicole Kidman

****Mission Impossible  (1996). Everything goes wrong as the team is mostly killed.

****Mission Impossible II (2000) A virus has been manufactured to make profits through sell of the vaccine.

****Mission Impossible III (2006). Phillip Seymour Hoffman as the villain

****Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011). Jeremy Renner costars 

****Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015). The syndicate A British Intelligence organization has gone rogue.  They are in the same business as the IMF

****Mission Impossible: ****Fallout (2018). A nuclear bomb is involved

**** Mission Impossible -Dead Reckoning: Part One (2023) Cool motorcycle jump to train using paraglider

****Mission Impossible - Final Reckoning (2025)

***^ The Firm, Rated R for violence and language, A John Grisham book.  

**** Minority Report (2002)

The Last Samurai (2003)

War of the Worlds (2005)

Valkyrie (2008)

Knight and Day (2010)

***^Jack Reacher (2012)

***^ Oblivion (2013) A post apocalyptic world 

***^Edge of Tomorrow (2014) A futuristic action film with Emily Blunt

***^Jack Reacher Never Go Back (2016) Sequel as good as the first

The Mummy (2017)

Top Gun Maverick (2022)

Movie Review: ****Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015)

 Tom Cruise and the gang are back for another adventure as they try to discover a rogue spy network called the Syndicate which is working to thin the population and destabilize governments.  An ex British agent is in charge of this terror network.  The regular crew is all back for this movie with the addition of Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson).  Faust is with British intelligence.  But British intelligence has a secret.  They funded the Syndicate until one of their agents went rogue, Lane (Sean Harris).  Lane is a worthy opponent; and there are many tense situations.  It seems they are always pulling things out at the last second.  

Movie Review: ****Mission: Impossible III (2006)

 Mission Impossible 3 has the most terrible villain, Owen Davian (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) who is truly evil and is determined to go after Hunt's (Tom Cruise) family as revenge for his capturing him.  He is able to make good on this as there is an ally inside the IMF.  In this movie Ethan Hunt marries Julia (Michelle Monaghan) and struggles with how much she needs to know.  She is a medical doctor.  Rounding out Hunt's team are Luther (Ving Rhames), Declan (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) as tech control and Zhen (Maggie Q).  This Mission Impossible episode is personal as Davian comes after Hunt.  Hoffman does a very evil bad guy and as such takes over the show.  He inserts explosive devices in people's brains which he can explode.  Hunt gets one in his brain, and when activated only has minimal time to die; and hopefully come back to life.  

Movie Review: ****Mission Impossible II (2000)

 Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt and Ving Rhames as Luther are back for more action.  Add a villain in the person of Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) and a woman on the inside, Nyah Hall (Thandiwe Newton).  The premise is the bad guys have stolen the plans for a virus and hope to release it on the world and then make money from the sell of the vaccination.  The virus gives you 20 hours after infection before it manifests and becomes almost fatal.  Of course the pretty lady is infected, Hunt has to get the antidote from the lab that made it and hopes to become wealthy.  Ambrose forces the company to sell him shares.  Only Hunt stands between he and billions.  Cool chase in Australia which results in a motorcycle duel.

Great fun

Movie Review: ****Mission: Impossible (1996)

 This is the first in a series of movies starring Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt.  In this first Mission:Impossible the team is compromised and everything goes terribly in the first scene as it appears the entire team is killed.  Jim (Jon Voight) is the director of the team.  Turns out the operation was a ruse and it was in fact an operation to chase out a mole, and Ethan is accused of being the mole.  He must solve this one on his own.  He is able to recruit Luther (Ving Rhames) and Krieger (Jean Reno).  Also one of the team, Claire (Emmanuelle Béart) who was presumed killed but was not, shows up.  There are now trust issues.  The mole is also still in place.  There are many tense and exciting moments in this movie.  And in the end the high-speed train tunnel from England to France comes into play.  Vanessa Redgrave plays Max, the woman who buys secret spy information.  

Mission:Impossible movies do not have a great moral or theme but they do entertain.  

Movie Review: ****Mision Impossible: Fallout (2018)

Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018)  This movie has you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.  It grabs you and doesn't let go.  Sheri says some of the scenes seemed “impossible” to her, but that is what makes this film so unpredictable and exciting.  There is every kind of chase imaginable, car, motorcycle, on foot, helicopter etc.  There is also romantic situations effecting the decisions people make.  And there is counter espionage and misidentification.  This is a great movie with a cast that really shines.

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, Henry Cavill as August Walker, a CIA operative who wants to get Hunt, Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell, Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn, Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust, Michelle Monaghan as Julia Meade Hunt and Alec Baldwin as the director. Cool helicopter chase and fight as well as disarming two nuclear bombs.  Sean Harris again stars as Solomon Lane, the bad guy captured last episode but breaks out in this to continue his reign of terror.  

Movie Review: ****Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011)

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol stars Tom Cruise.  Hendricks (Michael Nyqvist) is intent on causing a nuclear war, and has gottn the Russian nuclear codes.  However the IMF has been shut down because of impolications in blowing up the Kremlin in Russia.  They are limited to their current team and materials.  Jeremy Renner portrays Brandt.  The techno person is Benjamin (Simon Pegg) and the woman assistant is Jane (Paula Patton).  This show is like the typical Mission Impossible, action from start to finish, with bombs exploding and a number of chases.  They have a chase in an Arabian dust storm which adds to the trouble.  They also have the outside climbing of that tallest building in the world in Dubai.  Plenty of close calls keep you guessing in this show.  Tom Cruise thrives in the action genre.  This movie also explores the sacrifices a spy must make in terms of family and love life.  If you are into action, this show is also for you, and you will throughly enjoy it.  Sheri, my wife, really enjoyed it.  She likes the handsome man more than the intellectual.