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Movie Review: Tom Cruise Goes for Broke in ‘Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning’
- Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, starring and produced by Tom Cruise, premiered in theaters on May 22, 2025, as the eighth and final film of the franchise.
- The film continues directly from Dead Reckoning Part One and centers on Ethan Hunt’s 72-hour mission to stop The Entity, an artificial intelligence unleashed by villain Gabriel.
- Hunt risks death diving to a sunken Russian submarine in the Bering Sea to retrieve The Entity’s source code while U.S. President Erika Sloane entrusts him with this critical task.
- The movie runs 2 hours 49 minutes and holds a PG-13 rating for strong violence, bloody images, and brief language, featuring extensive stunts and a tribute to classic action cinema.
- The Final Reckoning emphasizes Ethan Hunt’s burden and trauma as he fights to save humanity from an uncontrollable AI, conveying a theme that contrasts modernity with tradition.
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Tom Cruise goes for broke in ‘Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning’
Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt is getting a bit of a god complex. It’s not exactly his fault after defying death and completing impossible missions time and time again. But in “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,” now playing at local theaters, there’s a breathlessness to the naive trust from his growing band of disciples, including the U.S. president (the formerly skeptical Erika Sloane of “Fallout,” played by Angela Bassett ), and Paris (Pom K…
Mission: Impossible, Reckoning with the Internet
‘Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning’It is tempting to think of the callbacks in Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning as an aggressive exercise in franchise nostalgia, a near-30-year series flexing a little to remind folks that even someone with as little screentime as a CIA tech with an upset tummy in the initial outing is a classic character worthy of redemption by Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team.But there’s more to the return of W…
Tom Cruise Reveals To Pat McAfee How He Tricked Everyone In Hollywood To Continue Making Movies In The Wake Of 2020 By Playing To Their Egos
tom cruise final reckoning premiere While appearing on The Pat McAfee Show this week to promote the release of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Tom Cruise detailed how he basically tricked Hollywood’s movie studios into resuming production in the wake of 2020. The topic was broached after Pat McAfee asked Tom Cruise about Steven Spielberg previously crediting him with saving the movie business, which Cruise absolutely did by A) not rel…
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