Which Mission: Impossible film is the fourth installment in the film series?

Which Mission: Impossible film is the fourth installment in the film series? Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is the fourth installment.

Released in 2011, Ghost Protocol follows Mission: Impossible III and places Ethan Hunt’s team in an unusually vulnerable position. After a bombing in Moscow, the IMF is disavowed, leaving Hunt and his colleagues without official support or the organization’s normal resources.

Brad Bird directed the film, making his live-action directorial debut after animated features such as The Incredibles and Ratatouille. Tom Cruise returned as Ethan Hunt, alongside Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, and Paula Patton.

The title is sometimes confused with the franchise’s production numbering, because the film was developed under the working title Mission: Impossible 4. Its final title, Ghost Protocol, refers to the IMF being shut down. The next film was Rogue Nation, released in 2015.