THE FINAL RECKONING
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- By KENNE HOFFMAN
Tom Cruise returns in the 8th installment of Paramount Pictures’ Mission Impossible franchise with Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. Cruise originated the character of Ethan Hunt in the film series, a fact I had to research as he has become so synonymous with the franchise, I had imagined the character being a part of the 1966-1973 television series the films are based upon. The popular 7 season series starred huge names like Peter Graves, Martin Landau, Leonard Nimoy, Sam Elliott, Leslie Ann Warren, and William Shatner.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is directed by Christopher McQuarrie from a screen play he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen and is considered a direct sequel to 2023’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” and the film will have its premiere at Cannes Film Festival this month.
Ethan Hunt and the IMF team (Hailey Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Peg, and Henry Czerny) must track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity if it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than the mission — not even the lives of those he cares about most. While rumors have persisted, the film would end the series, McQuarrie has said they are developing ideas for future installments and Cruise has expressed interest in further films. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is being marketed as Ethan Hunt’s final mission against the rogue AI called The Entity. In Theaters May 23, 2025.
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