10 Best Mission: Impossible Gadgets

A master of international espionage who could give James Bond a run for his money, Ethan Hunt is a one-man Swiss army knife of skills, knowledge and combat techniques.

Across the Mission: Impossible franchise, Tom Cruise has taken the character from a daring IMF agent to a nigh-indestructible superman. He has driven every kind of vehicle, beaten every bad guy under the sun and even stopped the world from ending.

A few of his more notable highlights include: free climbing a Utah cliff-face in M:I:2; outrunning missiles on a bridge in Mission: Impossible 3; the HALO (high-altitude low opening) jump over Paris in Fallout; clinging onto the exterior of an airborne plane in Rogue Nation; and scaling the exterior of the Burj Khalifa in Ghost Protocol.

And, never fear, that is not the last we've seen of Ethan Hunt's manic devotion to the art of endurance; Mission: Impossible 7 is set to hit cinemas in November 2021.