If you need a refresher on everything to remember from each 'Mission: Impossible' movie ahead of the release of the eighth film, 'The Final Reckoning,' EW has you covered.

The eighth (and perhaps the last) installment in the epochal Tom Cruise vehicle suffers from self-indulgent gravitas, but the best sequences are a model of action cinema at its purest.

“Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning,” a Paramount Pictures release in theaters Friday, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association for “bloody images, action, brief language, and sequences of strong violence.” Running time: 179 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.