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How did Mission: Impossible become Hollywood's most reliable franchise?

Critical adoration and box office success has met the sixth installment of Tom Cruise’s series, an unlikely 22-year phenomenon that shows no signs of tiring

Let’s take a moment to appreciate the preposterousness of Mission: Impossible. Not the rubber masks or the exploding gum sticks or the nuclear countdown clocks that always stop with one second till death. (“The usual,” Ving Rhames’ Luther Stickell would shrug.) All franchises have their implausibilities, whether it’s Transformers’ sentient cars or the Fast and Furious’ sentient Vin Diesels. But only the Mission: Impossible franchise has gotten better reviews with every installment, climbing its way up the Rotten Tomatoes rankings as though wearing electromagnetic gloves. Bruce Willis can’t make a good Die Hard happen. But this weekend, Mission: Impossible – Fallout had the best critical approval of Tom Cruise’s entire career, better even than the three films that scored him Oscar nominations, and his second-highest box office opening ever, just under 2005’s War of the Worlds. Fallout probably would have beaten that, too, if MoviePass hadn’t glitched.

Related: Mission: Impossible – Fallout review: Tom Cruise remains a pneumatic treat

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