Ving Rhames' character is the only one, other than Ethan Hunt himself, to appear in every Mission: Impossible movie. If the goal was to up the stakes of the last movie, and to do it in a way that fans of the franchise would really feel it, Luther was really the only character who could have been taken away mid-movie.

The Final Reckoning. Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning is quite possibly Tom Cruise's last hurrah as Ethan Hunt. To really drive home that point — "our lives are the sum of our choices," after all — the film features several callbacks,