Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is a 2025 action movie directed by Christopher McQuarrie, with a running time of 2h 50m. It stars Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell and Ving Rhames.
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team chase the Entity, a rogue artificial intelligence that has burrowed into every intelligence network on Earth, while the world's governments and a figure from Hunt's past close in. This eighth entry, a direct sequel to Dead Reckoning, sends Tom Cruise back into the practical-stunt spectacle the series is built on, with Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, and Simon Pegg beside him and Esai Morales as the human face of the machine. Christopher McQuarrie directs a race to shut the Entity down before it rewrites the world for good.
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What is Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning about?
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team chase the Entity, a rogue artificial intelligence that has burrowed into every intelligence network on Earth, while the world's governments and a figure from Hunt's past close in. This eighth entry, a direct sequel to Dead Reckoning, sends Tom Cruise back into the practical-stunt spectacle the series is built on, with Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, and Simon Pegg beside him and Esai Morales as the human face of the machine. Christopher McQuarrie directs a race to shut the Entity down before it rewrites the world for good.
When was Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning released?
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning was released on 17 May 2025.
How long is Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning?
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning runs 2h 50m.
Who made Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning?
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning was directed by Christopher McQuarrie.
Where can I watch Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning?
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is available on MGM+, MGM+ (Via Amazon Prime), Paramount Plus, Paramount+ (Via Amazon Prime), Philo and Prime Video.
Where to watch Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Stream: MGM+, MGM+ (Via Amazon Prime), Paramount Plus, Paramount+ (Via Amazon Prime), Philo, Prime Video, YouTube TV, fuboTV
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Buy: Fandango at Home
Cast
- Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt
- Hayley Atwell as Grace
- Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell
- Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn
- Esai Morales as Gabriel
- Pom Klementieff as Paris
- Henry Czerny as Kittridge
- Holt McCallany as Serling
- Janet McTeer as Walters
- Nick Offerman as General Sidney
- Hannah Waddingham as Admiral Neely
- Tramell Tillman as Captain Bledsoe
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A few thoughts on Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Trace the franchise to its root in the 1966 series Mission: Impossible, where the masks, the tape-recorded briefings, and the team-of-specialists format all began. For the same globe-trotting espionage in a controller, Metal Gear Solid built a whole saga on infiltration, gadgets, and a hero outrunning a weaponized system much like the Entity.
Stories where a rogue AI becomes the real final boss
In The Final Reckoning, Ethan Hunt's enemy is the Entity, an AI loose inside every intelligence network on Earth. Eagle Eye runs the same nightmare at street level, a program that manipulates ordinary people through their own phones. Metal Gear Solid shares that dread of hidden networks pulling every string, and Portal and Portal 2 leave you alone with a rogue machine intelligence as your only company.
Practical-stunt spy adventures built on globe-trotting set pieces
The Final Reckoning keeps Ethan Hunt in practical stunts and globe-trotting set pieces even as the stakes go planetary, the tradition Bond films built and modern spy movies keep chasing. Spectre, Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, and For Your Eyes Only run the same playbook of gadgets and exotic locations, while Heart of Stone and Chief of Station update the globe-trotting spy chase for a newer generation of agents.