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Mission: Impossible –
The Final Reckoning
Poster depicting Ethan Hunt in a biplane as it's flying upside down.
Theatrical release poster
Directed byChristopher McQuarrie
Written by
Based onMission: Impossible
by Bruce Geller
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyFraser Taggart
Edited byEddie Hamilton
Music by
Production
companies
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release dates
  • May 5, 2025 (2025-05-05) (Tokyo)
  • May 23, 2025 (2025-05-23) (United States)
Running time
170 minutes[2]
CountriesUnited States
United Kingdom[3]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$300–400 million[4][5]
Box office$360.5 million[1][6]

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is a 2025 action spy film that follows Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) and is the eighth installment in the Mission: Impossible film series that stars Tom Cruise. The film is directed by Christopher McQuarrie from a screenplay he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen.[7][8][9] Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, alongside an ensemble cast including Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Henry Czerny, and Angela Bassett.[10][11] In the film, Hunt and his Impossible Mission Force team work to prevent the Entity, a rogue AI, from unleashing global destruction against 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 later changed in February 2021. Returning and new cast members were announced 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 halted in July 2023 due to the SAG-AFTRA strike. Production resumed in March 2024 and concluded that November, with filming locations including England, Malta, South Africa and Norway. The film, originally titled Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two, dropped its subtitle in October 2023, and the new subtitle was announced in November 2024. With an estimated budget of $300–400 million, it is nominally one of the 20 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 positive reviews from critics and has grossed $360.5 million worldwide, becoming the seventh highest-grossing film of 2025, in addition to having the largest opening weekend of the franchise.

Plot

Two months after retrieving the key to the source code for the malevolent artificial intelligence known as the Entity,[b] Impossible Missions Force agent Ethan Hunt receives a message from US President Erika Sloane: the Entity continues to seize control of global nuclear systems, aided by an undercover doomsday cult; Ethan is ordered to surrender the key, but he refuses and continues pursuing Gabriel, the Entity's former proxy.

In London, Ethan and fellow IMF agent Grace are captured by Gabriel; Gabriel coerces Ethan into retrieving the "Podkova" module, revealed to be the "Rabbit's Foot,"[c] from the sunken Russian submarine Sevastopol, which would give Gabriel control over the Entity's source code. Ethan and Grace escape with the aid of IMF agent Benji Dunn, and recruit Gabriel's erstwhile lieutenant Paris and Theo Degas, a CIA agent previously tasked with apprehending Ethan. A device used by Gabriel to communicate with the Entity shows Ethan a vision of a coming nuclear apocalypse, and the Entity demands access to a digital bunker in South Africa to ensure its physical survival.

Ethan sends his team to retrieve the Sevastopol's coordinates and races to save Luther Stickell from Gabriel, who steals the "Poison Pill" malware for the Entity developed by Luther and traps him with a nuclear time bomb. Luther sacrifices himself, preemptively triggering one of the device's detonators to minimize the blast, and Ethan is brought to Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center. With four days until the Entity launches nuclear armageddon, Ethan convinces Sloane to let him locate the Sevastopol, against CIA Director Eugene Kittridge's objections.

While Ethan joins the aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush in the North Pacific Ocean, his team travels to St. Matthew Island in the Bering Sea, home to a Cold War–era naval sonar array that detected the Sevastopol's sinking. They meet former CIA analyst William Donloe, who was exiled to the island decades earlier after Ethan's break-in at CIA headquarters,[d] and memorized the Sevastopol's coordinates. Captured by Russian special forces seeking the coordinates, Grace and Donloe's wife Tapeesa escape by dog sled, and the others fight off the soldiers as Donloe transmits the coordinates to Ethan.

Receiving the coordinates aboard the submarine USS Ohio, Ethan is saved from a doomsday operative, and uses an experimental diving suit to reach the Sevastopol and retrieve the Podkova, as the wreck slides down the continental shelf. Narrowly escaping without his air supply, Ethan is revived from decompression sickness by Grace and Tapeesa using a portable decompression chamber. Reunited with his team, Ethan plans to plug the Poison Pill into the Podkova, fooling the Entity into trapping itself at the bunker onto a physical drive.

At the bunker, the team is ambushed by Gabriel with another timed nuclear device. He demands the Podkova, but the handover is interrupted by Kittridge, who wants control of the Entity at the US government's behest. The bomb is activated in the ensuing firefight and Gabriel flees, knowing Ethan will pursue him. Paris performs emergency surgery on a critically injured Benji as he guides Grace through rebooting the bunker systems to trap the Entity. Like Luther, Donloe preempts the bomb but buys enough time for himself and the others to escape the explosion.

Sloane chooses not to sacrifice millions of lives with a preemptive strike, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is fatally wounded protecting her from a doomsday assassin. The Entity gains total control of the world's nuclear weapons. Ethan chases Gabriel in a biplane and climbs onto Gabriel's plane mid-air, recovering the Poison Pill. A gloating Gabriel attempts to parachute to safety, but is killed as he hits the plane's rudder. Ethan finds a second parachute and plugs the Poison Pill into the Podkova in midair, allowing Grace to download and trap the Entity within a tenth of a second before all nuclear weapons are launched.

Ethan presents a disappointed Kittridge with the destroyed Podkova, and agent Jasper Briggs—revealed to be the son of Ethan's original team leader Jim Phelps[d]—makes peace with Ethan for exposing his father as a traitor. Reuniting in London, Grace gives Ethan the drive containing the Entity, and the IMF team go their separate ways.

Cast

Production

Development

On January 14, 2019, Tom Cruise announced that the seventh and eighth Mission: Impossible films would be shot back to back with Christopher McQuarrie writing and directing both films for July 23, 2021, and August 5, 2022, releases.[25][26] However, in February 2021, Deadline Hollywood revealed that Paramount had decided to no longer move forward with that plan.[27]

Casting

In September 2019, Hayley Atwell and Pom Klementieff joined the cast of the eighth installment.[28][29] In December, Simon Pegg confirmed his return for the film, while Shea Whigham was also cast.[30][31] Nicholas Hoult joined the cast by January 2020, along with Henry Czerny, who reprised his role as Eugene Kittridge from Dead Reckoning Part One and the first film.[32][33] However, due to scheduling conflicts, Hoult was replaced by Esai Morales for both films.[34] Vanessa Kirby, who first appeared in Fallout, announced she was returning for both films,[35] but did not appear in Final Reckoning.[36] In July 2022, it was reported that Holt McCallany had joined the cast.[37] In August, it was revealed Nick Offerman and Janet McTeer were also added to the cast.[38] In March 2023, McQuarrie announced Hannah Waddingham, Lucy Tulugarjuk and Rolf Saxon's addition to the cast, the latter of whom reprises his role from the first film.[13][39] In March and April 2024, respectively, Katy O'Brian and Tramell Tillman joined the cast in then-undisclosed roles.[22][16] In November 2024, it was revealed that Angela Bassett would reprise her role as CIA Director Erika Sloane.[40]

Filming

In February 2021, Deadline Hollywood reported that the film would no longer be filmed back to back with Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.[27] By November, McQuarrie was in the process of rewriting the film's script.[41] On March 23, 2022, The Hollywood Reporter reported the beginning of principal photography of the then untitled Mission: Impossible 8.[42] Filming took place in the UK at Longcross Studios and the Lake District. Other locations included Malta, South Africa, and Norway. In December 2022, filming was finished in the UK.[43] The crew then moved to Apulia in Italy to continue filming aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush.[44] During the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike, production was thought to have been put on hold according to an interview with McQuarrie in the June 2023 issue of the Empire magazine.[45] However, this was later revealed to have been a misinterpretation of McQuarrie's statement, and continued production was only waiting for the promotion of Part One to complete.[46] Filming was officially suspended in July due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike.[47] The film returned to production in March 2024, though in May, it encountered a delay due to a submarine malfunction.[48][49] During filming in England, Cruise and Morales were observed performing stunts from an airborne biplane, with Cruise holding onto the wings of the open cockpit aircraft as it flew upside down, while the pilot wore a greenscreen suit so as to be digitally removed from the final shot.[50] In July 2024, Simon Pegg revealed filming had concluded for his part, though the cast and crew were maintaining radio silence.[51][52] By November 2024, production had concluded and the film was in post-production. The Hollywood Reporter reported that the budget had neared $400 million due to the production delays.[4]

Post-production

Industrial Light & Magic returns from the seventh film to produce the visual effects, with Clear Angle Studios and Halon Entertainment as the additional vendors for lidar, cyber scanning and previsualization.[53][54][55] In October 2023, Dead Reckoning Part Two was removed as the film's subtitle,[56] and the new subtitle was confirmed as The Final Reckoning in November 2024.[57]

Music

Main article: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (soundtrack)

Lorne Balfe was originally announced in May 2020 to be composing the film's score, after previously doing so for Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023),[58] but it was later announced in April 2025 that he would be replaced with Max Aruj and Alfie Godfrey. Aruj has previously provided additional music for Dead Reckoning and served as technical score assistant on Fallout. Both Aruj and Godfrey have contributed music to numerous projects scored by Balfe over the years. Cecile Tournesac was credited as the supervising music editor and score producer.[59] The full album was released on May 23, 2025.[60][61]

Release

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning had its world premiere in Tokyo on May 5, 2025. The film screened at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2025, prior to its scheduled theatrical release on May 23, by Paramount Pictures.[62][63] It was previously set for release on August 5, 2022,[64] but was delayed to November 4, 2022,[65] July 7, 2023,[66] June 28, 2024,[67] and then to the current date in response to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, taking the original release date of The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants.[68] Due to delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes, the budget for the film reportedly increased to at least $400 million, placing it among the most expensive films ever made.[69] Based on typical industry expectations, the film may need to earn around $1 billion worldwide to recoup its production costs.[69] However, in addition to its box office, its performance on Paramount's streaming service, Paramount+, is also expected to be a significant factor in evaluating its overall success.[69]

Internationally, it was released theatrically in Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, India and South Korea on May 17, 2025[70] before releasing in the United Kingdom on May 21.[71] The film was released in Dolby Cinema, ScreenX, RPX, 4DX, IMAX and other premium formats.

Reception

Box office

As of June 4, 2025, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning has grossed $129.3 million in the United States and Canada, and $231.2 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $360.5 million.[1][6]

In the United States and Canada, The Final Reckoning was released alongside Lilo & Stitch, and was initially projected to gross $80–110 million over the four-day Memorial Day weekend.[72] Final Reckoning earned $24.8 million on its opening day, which included $8.3 million from Thursday night previews, setting a new opening day record for the franchise. The film debuted to $64 million over its standard three-day weekend and reached $79 million across the four-day Memorial Day weekend, placing second behind Lilo & Stitch. Despite not topping the box office, a first for the franchise, not counting Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol's limited release in IMAX and other large-format theaters in its first five days where it finished third, it contributed to the biggest Memorial Day weekend in domestic box office history, with all films combining for a record-breaking $334.5 million.[73][74][75][76] In its second weekend the film made $27.3 million (a drop of 57%), remaining in second.[77]

Critical response

Reviews of The Final Reckoning were generally positive, but subdued compared to previous installments.[e] On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 80% of 356 critics' reviews are positive. The website's consensus reads: "Gargantuan in action, runtime, and scope, The Final Reckoning is a sentimental sendoff for Ethan Hunt that accomplishes its mission with a characteristic flair for the impossible."[82] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 67 out of 100, based on 57 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[83] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale, while those surveyed by PostTrak gave it an 89% overall positive score, with 79% saying they would definitely recommend the film.[84]

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian rated the film five stars out of five, calling it a "wildly silly, wildly entertaining adventure which periodically gives us a greatest-hits flashback montage of the other seven films".[85] In another positive review, Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune said the film was a "satisfying capper to an eight-film franchise" and concluded, "He may not hang off a biplane, but the year’s unlikeliest franchise MVP makes Final Reckoning something better than superhuman: human."[86] Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph said, "Even by the series' own now well-established standards, this widely presumed last entry in Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible franchise is an awe-inspiringly bananas piece of work."[87] Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, saying it "stays true" to the franchise's "core tenets, even if it too often feels baggy and redundant", and particularly praised "a callback from the first film that strikes a particularly winning chord of humor and sentimentality".[88]

In an unfavorable review, Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com was more critical of the film, calling the first hour "unwieldy and truly clunky" and "the worst segment in the entire franchise", although he noted that the action sequences during the film's peaks were "enough to ignore everything wrong with the movie up to that point".[89] Cary Darling of the Houston Chronicle described the film as a "disappointing installment" that felt "bloated and tired, despite the dizzying, high-flying stunt work at the film's climax". He also criticized its runtime, stating "just shy of three hours (the longest in the series), it takes a heck of a long time to achieve lift-off".[90]

Future

In June 2023, McQuarrie told Fandango that Dead Reckoning and The Final Reckoning would not necessarily end the series, and they were developing ideas for future installments.[91] In July 2023, during promotion for Dead Reckoning, Cruise expressed interest in reprising his role as Hunt in future films, citing Harrison Ford's portrayal of Indiana Jones over 40 years.[92] On November 12, 2024, Jeff Sneider reported Cruise sought to cast Glen Powell, his co-star in Top Gun: Maverick (2022), to replace him as the new lead for potential future Mission Impossible films. Powell denied this during an appearance on The Pat McAfee Show.[93][94] In May 2025, during the New York premiere for The Final Reckoning, Cruise confirmed that the film would be his final film in the series, stating "The film is the final! It’s not called 'final' for nothing."[7]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Mission: Impossible Theme composed by Lalo Schifrin
  2. ^ As depicted in Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
  3. ^ As depicted in Mission: Impossible III (2006)
  4. ^ a b As depicted in Mission: Impossible (1996)
  5. ^ Attributed to multiple references:[78][79][80][81]

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