Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.
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What critics say influenced Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey…
There’s this thing called The Entity, which is basically HAL 9000 meets The Matrix.
Think WarGames meets a modern day Raiders of the Lost Ark…
…delivering the sort of breathtaking excitement seen in other popular action adventure flicks from Raiders of the Lost Ark to Jurassic Park.
The design of the eye itself resembles an icier, more modern combination of the Eye of Sauron, the Matrix, and Demon Seed’s Proteus…
There’s this thing called The Entity, which is basically HAL 9000 meets The Matrix.
…stupid little Easter eggs (as if Mission: Impossible fans are somehow supposed to have memorized the original’s release date, like it was Star Wars Day or whatever).
…an MCU- or Star Wars–style throughline…
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Ethan Hunt is now basically Superman without the colorful tights…
…he is the hero come to save us, not unlike Superman or Captain America.
…function as a scaled-down version of a Rogue Nation set piece…
…think the underwater sequence in Rogue Nation, but bigger…
Rogue Nation through The Final Reckoning…
It also tries to explicitly connect all the films in the series.
McQuarrie, back for his fourth Mission film (Rogue Nation, Fallout , and Dead Reckoning)…
…with a creative high point somewhere between Ghost Protocol (2011) and Rogue Nation (2015)…
There are bruising group fights, a resurrection of airplane dog fights and fights to stay alive.
“Top Gun: Maverick” was the template. Sure, it had “it” boys like Glen Powell, but the most memorable moment for boomers and Gen-X had to be Mr. Cruise’s reunion with an ailing Val Kilmer.
…his love for Top Gun: Maverick — a film he considers less of a movie and more of a religion…
Top Gun: Maverick…
No less than Steven Spielberg said Cruise “saved” the film industry with the adrenaline shot Top Gun: Maverick provided during the pandemic.
…he’s managed to become the figurehead for big-screen filmmaking after the industry-saving success of Top Gun: Maverick…
The film's centerpiece is a nearly wordless sequence that harkens back to the original's Langley vault break-in.
This ultimate finale is more than giving the character of Ethan Hunt (and, to a lesser degree, Rhames’s Luther and Simon Pegg’s Benji Dunn) a sunset to ride off into and offering a plethora of Easter eggs and series callbacks that weave more meaning into the grand tapestry.
…mobilizing OG franchise players like Henry Czerny (Mission Impossible) and Rolf Saxon (Mission Impossible)…
Mission: Impossible got off to a spectacular start in 1996, with ground-breaking computer-generated special effects and a tense, muscular production helmed by Brian De Palma.
This is the eighth installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise, and Stratis spent the week watching the first seven movies…
That’s offset by the fact that there’s another callback to the first “Mission: Impossible” that is just dumb and lacks any sort of emotional punch, feeling forced and befuddling.
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The final dual plane set piece is stellar as well but it does feel like a bit of a rehash of the helicopter sequence in Fallout.
Maybe too much so: Let’s ignore for the time being that this excellent four-way climax is basically a riff on the finale of the far superior Mission: Impossible — Fallout.
From saving Julia over the Rabbit’s Foot in ‘M:I III’, to surrendering plutonium cores to rescue Luther in ‘Fallout’, he has always chosen people over protocol.
With a number of callbacks to previous films, this Mission, should you choose to accept it, offers lots of nostalgia, fun cameos and clever throwbacks to the seven previous films.
McQuarrie, back for his fourth Mission film (Rogue Nation, Fallout , and Dead Reckoning)…
That’s over $300 million less than 2018’s “Fallout”.
Harry Lloyd dangling off the clock in Safety Last…