In the Rolling Stone review, film critic David Fear wrote, “ Mission: Impossible — Final Reckoning ” feels like a conclusion to 30 years worth of proving that yes, you still can conjure up a certain vintage strain of Hollywood magic. It also feels like the end of an era. We will still get ‘Tom Cruise movies.'”

Years later, at the height of the remake-of-old-TV-shows craze – Charlie’s Angels, Maverick, The Fugitive and so on – Tom Cruise, then and now the biggest star in the world, thought Mission Impossible could be a good excuse to do a few death-defying stunts. And he hired Brian de Palma to direct it.