Mission: Impossible 5 is one of Hulu’s top trending movies, but it’s being promoted with an image taken from a scene that’s not in the film. The adventures of Ethan Hunt are presumed to be coming to an end with Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, though Tom Cruise could always reverse course and return for one last thrilling foray as the death-defying secret agent. With the (maybe) last Mission: Impossible set to release on May 23, streaming subscribers are checking out past films in the series, pushing the fifth entry, Rogue Nation, onto Hulu’s top-trending movies list. 1z6dn

Tom Cruise relives filming his death-defying plane stunt for the Mission: Impossible franchise that the director had originally suggested as a joke. Since the franchise's inception in 1996, Cruise has been executing increasingly daring stunts for the audiences' enjoyment. The stunts started more modestly in the original movie, directed by Brian De Palma, but were no less iconic, including the Langley break-in scene which required Cruise to dangle just inches from the floor. The most iconic stunt in Mission: Impossible 2, directed by John Woo, required a knife to stop just inches away from Cruise's eye.

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation is the 2015 installment of Tom Cruise's legendary spy franchise, and it stacks up well against the rest of the impressive titles in the action movie series. Premiering in July 2015 as the fifth installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation serves as the direct sequel to Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol and brings back all the beloved characters from that film, while introducing a few noteworthy additions for good measure, including Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, and Alec Baldwin.

A CIA expert gives a Tom Cruise espionage flick a low rating for its lack of realism. Throughout his impressive career, Cruise has starred in many spy thrillers like the Jack Reacher franchise and 2017’s American Made, but none of those compare to the work he did in the Mission: Impossible films. A franchise that follows the resourceful and driven Impossible Mission Force (IMF) agent Ethan Hunt, the films were first based on a television series of the same name.

A former special-operations sniper has weighed in on Tom Cruise’s questionable sniper skills in 2015’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. The fifth installment in Cruise’s long running Mission: Impossible franchise, the events of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation see IMF Agent Ethan Hunt and his team disavowed by the US Government and are forced to pursue a clandestine organization known as the Syndicate on their own. One key scene in the movie sees Cruise arm himself with a sniper rifle disguised as a flute, as he faces off against two other snipers tasked with assassinating the Chancellor of Austria.

Here is how much Tom Cruise runs in each Mission: Impossible movie. The action movie franchise began as a spy thriller series focused on IMF agent Ethan Hunt, but the series has evolved over the years to become a true vehicle for practical action sequences and stunts performed by Tom Cruise. The franchise star has repeatedly put his body on the line and gone to extreme lengths to deliver jaw-dropping and thrilling moments of spectacle. The Mission: Impossible movie stunts continue to get bigger and more death-defying, becoming an even more core part of the franchise's appeal.

Tom Cruise's action franchise has become known for its spectacle, and these are Mission: Impossible's most dangerous stunts. The movies and their star have made a conscious effort in recent entries to raise the levels of danger to new heights. This has not only meant bigger threats for Ethan Hunt and the IMF with each new installment but the Mission: Impossible stunts have also continued to become more elaborate and death-defying. While the action movies feature plenty of actors who do their fair share of fighting and stunts, Tom Cruise is at the forefront of Mission: Impossible's most dangerous stunts.

Tom Cruise reveals which stunt from theMission: Impossible franchise terrified his mother. Cruise has starred as IMF agent Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible film series since 1996 and, over the years, has pulled off increasingly bold and daring stunts. Some of his most dangerous and famous feats include climbing the Burg Khalifa in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and hanging off the side of a plane in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, the fifth film in the series that was released in 2015.

Christopher McQuarrie has been in the film industry for three decades, but how do his movies rank from worst to best? McQuarrie is best known for his work as a writer, particularly in the crime and action genre. In 1995 with just his second movie, The Usual Suspects, McQuarrie won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and has gone on to write some of the biggest movies of the 21st century, including Top Gun: Maverickand Edge Of Tomorrow. While most of the movies he has written for have been incredibly successful, McQuarrie's work on the script for the box office flop The Mummyproved that even Hollywood's most experienced writers don't always get it right.

If Jeremy Renner had replaced Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible, the franchise would have drifted in a completely different direction. Mission: Impossible shows no signs of running out of juice and easily ranks among the rare few movie franchises that have aged incredibly well. The credit for the series' sustained success can be attributed to many factors, but more than anything else, it is Tom Cruise's portrayal of IMF daredevil Ethan Hunt that still captivates audiences from all over the world. With each installment, Mission: Impossible has somehow upped the ante with high octane action scenes and thrilling spy-centric storylines. However, long before Mission: Impossible became a quasi-autobiographical parable of Tom Cruise's real-life vitality, it had reached somewhat of a crossroads where Cruise was almost replaced by Jeremy Renner.