12 Most Anticipated Action Movies Coming In 2020 (And Beyond)

For a genre that prided itself on hiring a new director for every installment, the decision to keep Christopher McQuarrie at the helm of the Mission: Impossible franchise has turned out to be an inspired call, with the long-running spy series now marking the pinnacle of the action genre.

McQuarrie's Rogue Nation and Fallout turned out to be two of the most critically-acclaimed blockbusters in recent memory that reinvigorated a series that had come close to becoming forgotten about completely on more than one occasion, building on what Brad Bird had achieved with Ghost Protocol but somehow managing to raise the bar both times.

The sharp and twisty plotting, refreshing reliance on practical stunts throughout the expertly-paced action beats and Tom Cruise's insistence that he perform increasingly dangerous feats simply to entertain audiences have become something of a calling card in recent years, and with the seventh and eights installments shooting back-to-back Cruise and McQuarrie will be looking to solidify Mission: Impossible's reputation as the action franchise to beat.