Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)

Original title

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Directed by

Christopher McQuarrie

Genre

action film, spy film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

2h 49m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 2,941 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team race to stop a rogue artificial intelligence called the Entity from wiping out all of humanity. This is the eighth and final film in the Mission: Impossible series with Tom Cruise returning as Ethan Hunt.

action-packedfast-pacedintensesuspensefulglobe-trottinghigh-stakesexplosiveurgent

What happens

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is a 2025 American action spy film directed by Christopher McQuarrie from a screenplay he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen. It is the direct sequel to Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) and the eighth installment in the Mission: Impossible film series. The ensemble cast includes Tom Cruise (in his final portrayal of Ethan Hunt), Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Henry Czerny, and Angela Bassett. In the film, Hunt and his IMF team continue their mission to prevent the Entity, a rogue artificial intelligence, from destroying all of humanity. In January 2019, Cruise announced that the seventh and eighth Mission: Impossible films would be shot back-to-back with McQuarrie co-writing and directing both films. Plans for the eighth film changed in February 2021, with returning and new cast and crew members being revealed soon after, including Lorne Balfe, who composed the score for two other films in the series; Balfe was later replaced by Max Aruj and Alfie Godfrey. Principal photography began in March 2022, but was suspended in July 2023 due to the SAG-AFTRA strike. Production resumed in March 2024 and concluded in November, with filming locations including England, Malta, Norway, and South Africa. Originally subtitled Dead Reckoning Part Two, the film changed its subtitle in November 2024. With a $300–400 million production budget, The Final Reckoning is one of the most expensive films ever made. The Final Reckoning had its world premiere in Tokyo on May 5, 2025, was screened out of competition at the 78th Cannes Film Festival on May 14, and was theatrically released in the United States on May 23 by Paramount Pictures. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised McQuarrie's direction, Cruise's performance, the supporting cast, and the action sequences, although the runtime and the pacing of the second act were criticized. It grossed $598.8 million worldwide and was considered a box office disappointment due to its budget, though it performed slightly better overseas and was recorded as the largest opening weekend of the franchise at $79 million. It was the final film co-produced by Paramount and Skydance as separate entities before they merged on August 7, 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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