(courtesy IMP Awards)
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A continuation of the iconic Mission: Impossible series following Ethan Hunt formerly of the IMF, and the conclusion following Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023). Paramount Pictures and Skydance Present, A Tom Cruise Production. “Our lives are the sum of our choices.” Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025). Mission: Impossible 8 is once again directed by prominent American screenwriter and filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie, director of the films The Way of the Gun, Jack Reacher, as well as the three other Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Fallout, and Dead Reckoning Part One previously; he also wrote the scripts for Valkyrie, The Tourist, Jack Reacher, Edge of Tomorrow, The Mummy, and Top Gun: Maverick. The screenplay is written by Christopher McQuarrie & Erik Jendresen. Based on the original TV Series created by Bruce Geller. It’s produced by Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie. (courtesy First Showing)
Oh the joy and escapism of a classic bombastically overblown blockbuster.
And the Mission: Impossible blockbuster franchise is one of the best on offer, offering up spectacle, action, energy and, surprisingly, a metric ton of real emotional impact.
Excitingly we have a new, and perhaps final instalment in the series which ticks all the M:I boxes and then some and looks set to send the franchise out on a larger-than-life high.
Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning releases 22 May 2025 in Australia and 23 May in the U.S.