Tom Cruise Is Back In The Final 'Mission: Impossible' Trailer
Cruise Control, One Last Time
There are few constants in life: gravity, taxes, and Tom Cruise risking life and limb for our cinematic pleasure. For nearly three decades, he’s sprinted across rooftops, clung to the sides of planes, and free-dived into burning buildings—all in the name of Mission: Impossible. And now, with the newly dropped trailer for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, the end is finally in sight.
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The eighth—and supposedly final—installment of the franchise is titled Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. This is the big one. The high-octane epilogue to a series that’s spent years redefining what an action movie can be when you cast a man with no fear and a thing for motorbikes and cliffs.
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie (Cruise’s go-to chaos coordinator), the film picks up where last year’s Dead Reckoning Part One left off. The stakes are bigger and the stunts are wilder. The trailer opens with that familiar montage of espionage absurdity—fast cars, faster jumps, and the ever-present ticking clock.
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But buried beneath the spectacle is something else. A sense of finality. Ethan Hunt has been outrunning his past for years; now it’s finally catching up. A voiceover tells us, “Our lives are the sum of our choices,” and Hunt, after 29 years of saving the world with a furrowed brow and perfectly timed explosions, seems to be facing the consequences of his. The villain is still a rogue AI named The Entity—because of course.
The familiar faces are back – Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Kirby, Hayley Atwell. Newcomers like Hannah Waddingham, Nick Offerman, and Katy O’Brian also join the chaos.
But at the heart of it all, as ever, is Cruise. He’s still doing his own stunts: underwater submarines, icy cliff dives, a lot of fast running. He’s still making us believe that one man with his motorcycle can save the world.
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The trailer teases betrayals, compromised secrets, and a powerful AI entity still on the loose. If Dead Reckoning Part One was the build-up, Final Reckoning is the payoff.
Will this actually be the end of Mission: Impossible? Hollywood rarely lets go of a billion-dollar franchise. But if Cruise is hanging up his harness, The Final Reckoning looks like a hell of a place for Tom Cruise to go out the only way he knows how.
May 23 can’t come soon enough.