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FILM REVIEW: Tom Cruise Holds the Key to ‘Reckoning’
- The Final Reckoning, the eighth Mission: Impossible film starring Tom Cruise, was released in 2025 and features Ethan Hunt trying to stop an AI known as The Entity.
- The film follows a storyline where mankind faces an extinction event caused by a powerful AI aiming to create a selective new age, escalating global tensions.
- The movie brought in $4 million on its third Friday in North America, placing third domestically behind Lionsgate's Ballerina, while continuing to lead the box office in China for the second week running.
- Mission: Impossible 8 has accrued $138.2 million domestically and $257.6 million overseas, with a total nearing $400 million worldwide this weekend.
- The film is on track to be the fourth Hollywood release in 2025 to reach this milestone, signaling continued franchise viability despite mixed critical reception.
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Decatur DailyFILM REVIEW: Tom Cruise holds the key to ‘Reckoning’
Saving the world often enough has a way of inflating any superstar’s ego. Early in “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning,” the bulky, sentimental, slightly pious but nonetheless satisfying capper to an eight-film franchise, the U.S. president (Angela Bassett, returning…
We knew our columnist big fan of Tom Cruise's exploits, who obviously relax him after so many years spent crying on the School. But there, finding a metaphysical aspect to the last opus of the "franchised", as they say in the film industry, does not he send the plug a little far? It veers in every sense, including in the proper sense. Ethan Hunt / Tom Cruise goes, short, steals and avenges us from the wicked plot fomented by Gabriel, a capital e…
‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ Review: Tom Cruise Saves The Universe
Ethan Hunt wants to avoid panic in Mission: Impossible -- The Final Reckoning (2025), Paramount Pictures Well, this is it, the “Final Reckoning,” or so the title says. I have to wonder for a minute: is it really? I guess it will depend on the box office numbers internationally, and going by those? Yeah, probably. It’s just as well, too, because after 30 years and eight installments, this series has run out of ideas. The latest entry not only rec…
In the last Mission: Impossible, the most implausible is not in the perilous adventures of Ethan Hunt, but in the contrast between a fictitious American presidency and that of reality, on the background of militarization of minds.
Tom Cruise’s ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ Leads Again at China Box Office as ‘Ballerina’ Bows in Third
Paramount’s “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” retained the top spot at the China box office for a second consecutive weekend, earning RMB70.7 million ($9.8 million) between June 6–8, according to Artisan Gateway. The Tom Cruise-led action sequel has now grossed $46.9 million in China, maintaining a strong hold despite a slowdown in new wide releases. Of this, Imax accounted for $1.7 million for a running total of $8.7 million in the …
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