Impossible 3 the most underrated movie in the franchise, but it also introduced the true love of Ethan Hunt’s life.

Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) hanging from a flying helicopter in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell looking grave in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Through eight Mission: Impossible movies across three decades, Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt clearly had his favorite teammates among the Impossible Mission Force. Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) were Ethan’s ride-or-die guys, while Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson) was like a force of nature in three of the M:I films. So what happened …

As soon as you put the word "final" into the title of a film in a franchise that has run for as long as Mission: Impossible has, it's hard not to think about a permanent end. Particularly with someone like Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), who has been dicing with death from the very beginning.