Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning has deep ties to earlier franchise installments, but it may not be the ones you would think.

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning was largely sold on it being the end of the Mission: Impossible franchise, but I'm convinced that won't be the case after a recent update. Indications that the eighth film would be Tom Cruise's last as Ethan Hunt date back several years.

If you need a refresher on everything to remember from each 'Mission: Impossible' movie ahead of the release of the eighth film, 'The Final Reckoning,' EW has you covered.