How to watch every Mission: Impossible movie in Australia

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to say how many Mission: Impossible movies there are. We’ll start. The easy ones are Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible II and Mission: Impossible III.

So far, so good. Then the Roman numerals disappear and the subtitles begin. Next is Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol followed by Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Phew.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning is a little confusing because it bumps the series tally up by two, split into Part One and Part Two, for a total of eight movies. So far.

Recent writer-director Christopher MacQuarrie has already announced plans for a ninth instalment, so this fast-paced franchise is fast tearing into Fast & Furious territory.

It's all a bit complicated but we've accepted the (almost) impossible mission of showing you how you can stream every movie in the series in Australia. 

When the last Mission: Impossible movie released in Australia, the streaming situation was a little more spare. But as we edge closer to the eighth movie, Dead Reckoning - Part Two, the rest of the series has become easier to obtain. In fact, Binge, Foxtel Now, Paramount+ and Netflix are streaming all seven existing movies. Stan has the first six, but won't take you all the way to Dead Reckoning - Part One. 

Here's the matrix of available M:I movies streaming in Australia: 

Here's how much each streaming service packing the Mission: Impossible movies will cost you at their very cheapest. Click through for more information on pricier plans. 

If you guessed that Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (and Part Two) would also be coming to Paramount Plus, you’d be right. At the time of writing, we're still waiting for Dead Reckoning Part Two (aka The Final Reckoning) to hit cinemas (it's scheduled to release theatrically 23 May 2025.) But Dead Reckoning Part One is already streaming on all the usual suspects, except Stan; that's Paramount+, Binge, Foxtel Now and Netflix.

Mission: Impossible started off as a spy thriller with the 1996 movie adaptation of the TV series from the 1960s and 1970s, following the plight of the Impossible Mission Force (IMF). Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is the star of all of the movies and has to prove his innocence in the original flick.

Mission: Impossible II takes a dove-filled detour into John Woo’s over-the-top action take on the formula where Hunt is chasing a modified disease. Mission: Impossible III pits Hunt against a twisted arms dealer (Philip Seymour Hoffman).

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is the start of the new formula, wherein Hunt and his team are framed for bombing the Kremlin. This is where the iconic stunts come to the fore.

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation pits Hunt and his team against an international nemesis organisation as Hunt wrestles with the conflicting loyalties of Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson).

Instead of another standalone adventure, Mission: Impossible – Fallout is a continuation of the Solomon Lane (Sean Harris) threat posed in Rogue Nation. And Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (Part One and Part Two) are about IMF pursuing a threat that intertwines Hunt’s past and the digital future of the world.

Paramount Plus might be overlooked as a streaming platform, but there are definitely some gems in there that are at the very least worth the seven-day free trial. 

There are some promising originals, such as Yellowjackets, 1883 (the Yellowstone prequel), Halo and plenty of ways for Trekkies to go boldly where no streaming service has gone before. It’s also home to Twin Peaks and Daria, which will be enough to net subscriptions from at least two huge cult fanbases.

Here’s how Paramount Plus compares to other Australian streaming services: