Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) needs us to trust him one last time — and after nearly 30 years of completing one mortality-defying stunt after the next, the least we can do is tag along for one more Mission: Impossible adventure. The eighth (and potentially final) film in this decade-spanning saga, The Final Reckoning, is the culmination of Ethan’s work. Where its predecessors were more or less self-contained, The Final Reckoning will take everything we know about Hunt and his impossible missions and flip it on its head. No corner of his past is off-limits, which means it may be time to brush up on the parts of the franchise that some would rather overlook. Here’s everything you need to remember before tuning into The Final Reckoning.
