Tom Cruise has announced the official title of the eighth film in the spy action thriller series, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.
Cruise plays Ethan Hunt on the movie’s initial poster, which also includes the title and the release date (May 23, 2025). Cruise wrote on Instagram in the subsequent post: “Every choice has led to this.”
Fans were also shown the Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning first trailer, which featured Cruise’s signature death-defying stunts and running as fast as he can in the Mission: Impossible movies. The Hollywood action star can be seen enjoying a car chase, going scuba diving, and, of course, rolling around in a shirtless knife fight. At one point, Cruise clings frantically to the aircraft’s side. It has now been confirmed that Angela Bassett will be returning to her role as CIA Director Erika Sloane.
The initial plan was for Mission: Impossible 8 to be Dead Reckoning Part Two, after Dead Reckoning Part One in 2023.. However, since the word “Part One” was omitted for the film’s Paramount+ release, the name change has been confirmed. The SAG-AFTRA strike from the previous year caused a delay on the sequel.
Ethan Hunt and his group have to deal with a highly advanced sentient artificial intelligence in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning. President Joe Biden was even impacted by the film’s plot, saying that it made him more concerned about the use of artificial intelligence.
After making.2 million domestically in its debut weekend, Dead Reckoning was reportedly on course to lose 0 million. It certainly had an impact, beginning just one week before the 2023 box office phenomenon known as Barbenheimer, the term used to describe Barbie and Oppenheimer’s simultaneous release date.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One received an 8 out of 10 rating from IGN. We stated: In the entertaining, compelling, and self-reflexive action drama Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Tom Cruise’s anti-algorithm stance takes hilariously literal form, and the film succeeds despite its own shortcomings.
Cruise has publicly expressed his desire to continue making Mission: Impossible movies into his 80s, but in an effort to boost interest in the franchise, he has positioned the eighth film as its “final” installment. The movie’s budget has increased to around $400 million as a result of production delays. The movie will also be shown at Cannes by Paramount.
The seventh movie, Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning (originally called Part One), and the eighth, originally called Part Two, brought in $571 million worldwide.