If you need a refresher on everything to remember from each 'Mission: Impossible' movie ahead of the release of the eighth film, 'The Final Reckoning,' EW has you covered.

The eighth (and perhaps the last) installment in the epochal Tom Cruise vehicle suffers from self-indulgent gravitas, but the best sequences are a model of action cinema at its purest.

The last hurrah for Tom Cruise's agent Ethan Hunt "gets tangled in knots trying to pull together threads from the earlier movies, which were originally designed as one-offs," reviews film critic Sean Burns.