Based on the 1966 TV series of the same name, the Mission: Impossible films seem to get better and better.

As Tom Cruise’s spy gears up for the eighth instalment in the franchise next year, he’ll be reunited with Henry Czerny’s former IMF director Eugene Kittridge who returned in 2023’s Dead Reckoning Part One.

The actor hadn’t played the role in the series since Brian De Palma’s 1996 original which is now streaming on ITVX for free.

The first Mission: Impossible movie follows…