Ethan Hunt has always been evil’s worst nightmare. He’s been at this long enough that his first cinematic assignment involved an actual floppy disk, as much a relic of the mid-’90s as U2 and Brian De Palma, whose combined presence and artistic gravitas went a long way toward legitimizing Cruise’s first true bid for action-icon status after Top Gun.
— Adam Nayman (The Ringer)
When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.