The first trailer for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning sees Tom Cruise out to save the world one final time – watch it below.
The eighth film in the franchise will be the direct sequel to last year’s Dead Reckoning Part One, and based on the glimpses in the trailer, it appears that it may be the final outing for Cruise’s IMG agent Ethan Hunt.
The clip shows new footage alongside images from the previous films, while a voiceover says, “Our lives are not defined by any one action, our lives are the sum of our choices. Everything you were, everything you’ve done, has come to this.”
See the trailer, complete with the requisite footage of Cruise running at top speed, hanging off airplanes and fighting in underwater combat, here:
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The trailer and the film’s title were confirmed in a post on Cruise’s Instagram on Monday (November 11), in which he wrote: “Our lives are the sum of our choices. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. See you at the movies May 23, 2025.”
The trailer ends with Ethan Hunt asking somebody off camera, “I need you to trust me, one last time.”
The film will be directed by Christopher McQuarrie, who also helmed Rogue Nation, Fallout and Dead Reckoning Part One, and will co-star Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff and Henry Czerny.
McQuarrie has said in interviews, including with Fandango in 2023, that The Final Reckoning would not necessarily be the final film in the series and that they were working on ideas for future instalments.
In a three-star review of Dead Reckoning Part One, NME wrote: “The problems come when Dead Reckoning tries to be too clever. Production on the film wrapped in 2021, so Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie couldn’t have known how prescient the AI themes would prove to be. Now, as ChatGPT dominates the internet and we all wait anxiously for robots to make us redundant, the film’s setup seems like a masterstroke.”
“But it’s sadly also its downfall. After an exciting first third, we drift into a series of bloated exposition sessions where thinly drawn side-characters spend far too long talking up the apocalyptic (but actually quite vague) threat of AI.”
The Mission: Impossible series is based on Bruce Geller’s ’60s TV series of the same name and began with Brian De Palma’s first film in 1996. The seven movies to date have accrued more than $4billion worldwide.
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