US EditionReview: Tom Cruise Holds the Key to ‘Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning’
- Mission: Impossible- The Final Reckoning, directed by Christopher McQuarrie, premiered in theaters on May 23, 2025, starring Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt.
- The film follows the fallout from 2023’s Dead Reckoning Part One, with Hunt and his team preventing a nuclear apocalypse caused by a rogue AI named The Entity.
- Final Reckoning features lengthy, scenic action sequences including a nearly 20-minute silent submarine escape and Cruise performing stunts like hanging off a biplane wing himself.
- The movie runs 170 minutes with a PG-13 rating and includes numerous callbacks and Easter eggs, emphasizing nostalgia and Cruise’s stunt-driven legacy.
- Critics note the film's overlong runtime and narrative heaviness create emotional disconnects, suggesting it prioritizes spectacle and self-congratulation over coherent storytelling.
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Tom Cruise holds key to ‘Mission Impossible – The Final 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 to the role) refers to espionage all-star Ethan Hunt as “the best of men,” and by inference the first man you call when you need someone to run an errand in a Tom Cruise hurr…
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