4 Tom Cruise Action Essentials Hit Prime Video Soon
Prime Video detonates January with a Tom Cruise blitz as Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible 2, Mission: Impossible III, and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol land for a high-octane binge.
If your New Year plans involve Tom Cruise sprinting away from disaster, Prime Video just did you a solid. The first four Mission: Impossible movies are landing in one shot, which is a pretty easy way to watch the franchise find its groove.
When and where
Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible 2, Mission: Impossible III, and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol start streaming on Prime Video on January 1, 2026.
What you are getting
- Mission: Impossible (1996) - directed by Brian De Palma
- Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) - directed by John Woo
- Mission: Impossible III (2006) - directed by J.J. Abrams
- Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) - directed by Brad Bird
Yes, that is four different heavy-hitter directors across four movies. And yes, Ghost Protocol is the Burj Khalifa one.
The basics
All of this comes from the classic TV series, reimagined around Cruise as Ethan Hunt, a top-tier operative for the Impossible Missions Force (IMF) who specializes in wildly complicated covert ops, masks, and near-misses. Cruise is not just the star; he produced every Mission: Impossible movie.
How they played
Box office: consistently strong across the board. Critics: a little more case-by-case. Ghost Protocol is the consensus high point of these four, holding a 93% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 246 reviews.
Familiar faces
Across these first four films, Cruise shares the screen with a rotating roster that includes Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Laurence Fishburne, and Jeremy Renner. Some pop in briefly, some become fixtures, but you will see a lot of them as the series evolves.
Where this fits in the bigger run
The franchise does not stop at Ghost Protocol. After these four, the series continues with Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015), Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018), Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023), and Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025).
Bottom line: if you want to watch Ethan Hunt go from vault heists to skyscraper climbs to full-on global mayhem, Prime Video has the first half of that journey ready to binge on day one of 2026.