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Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning Ending, Explained
- Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning premiered in theaters on May 23, 2025, concluding Tom Cruise's 30-year Ethan Hunt saga.
- The film centers on Ethan Hunt and his team as they work to prevent Gabriel and the AI known as The Entity from gaining control over the world's nuclear weapons.
- Key characters Luther and General Sidney die in this installment, and the story references past villains, MacGuffins, and returning cast members.
- The Final Reckoning lasts about 169 minutes with a reported $400 million budget, and director Christopher McQuarrie called it "the most difficult thing" they've done.
- The conclusive ending suggests the franchise might be ending, though uncertainty remains about Cruise and McQuarrie's future involvement.
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'Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning' ending and post-credits explained
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Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning Is Ubiquitous. Choose to Accept It, With Reservations.
One of the best features of latter-day Mission: Impossible films is that Ethan Hunt always receives his top-secret assignments via some decidedly not state-of-the-art form of physical media: a vinyl record, a microcassette, a reel-to-reel tucked inside a leather-bound copy of The Odyssey. In the new Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, the message comes from the President of the United States herself. (Angela Bassett, whose character has l…
‘Mission: Impossible’ Must Finally Reckon With Tom Cruise’s Ego
There is a pleasing symmetry to the Mission: Impossible brand cycle: 30 years between the 1966 debut of the original CBS television series created by Bruce Geller to the 1996 cinematic reboot starring Tom Cruise, and again between that first film and what would appear to be the final installment of the franchise this summer with Mission: Impossible–The Final Reckoning. A childhood favorite of Cruise’s, the original show is, for anyone tempted to…
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