The Mission: Impossiblefranchise is finally coming to an end with the highly anticipated Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, and its upcoming release has inspired plenty of audiences to return to Brian De Palma’s 1996 in recent months. The film takes a much grittier and more grounded approach than the most recent sequels, exploring Ethan Hunt’s vendetta with an IMF agent named Kittridge, who believes that Hunt has been informing on their organization to a band of dangerous European criminals. It’s one of the best movies in the entire series, but it could have been extremely different under slightly different circumstances.