Ultimately this series has never been as overly successful in setting a consistent narrative arc. The about whether Tom Cruise is a very good actor or simply a movie star can be solved with the first solution by showing his dedication to an ever-increasing range of extreme stunts. He's surely one of the talents giving how he's building his characters. At its core, the Mission Impossible franchise is an office drama about a guy trying to balance the weight of his life and the ones of the strangers having to do with him. Overall it works and the other charachters as well deliver good performances.
