3 min read Last Updated : Apr 08 2025 | 12:48 PM IST
In the recent trailer for Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning, Tom Cruise's superspy character Ethan Hunt returns to action. The trailer throws it back to iconic moments from the original 1996 Mission: Impossible and scenes from across the franchise, giving fans a nostalgic rush ahead of the most thrilling mission so far.
Hunt, played by Cruise, picks up where Dead Reckoning Part One left off in his fight against "the Entity," a powerful artificial intelligence. The voice over in the clip says, "Every choice, every mission, has all led to this. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. May 23, 2025 (sic)."
Mission Impossible 8: The Final Reckoning- Trailer talk
Similar to the teaser, the trailer relies on nostalgia and features clips from the franchise's prior films as well as the 1996 Brian De Palma-directed movie Mission: Impossible. It starts with Tom hanging from an airplane while people make comments, “This can’t all be true.”
They quickly go over all of his past actions, including the bombs he avoided and the security briefings he gassed, and it is revealed that he has subsequently been placed under custody. The world is on the verge of chaos once more, therefore it is agreed that he must be dealt with. More significantly, his secrets have all been exposed.
Mission Impossible 8: The Final Reckoning: Fans react
Fans left nostalgic wrote under the trailer, with one of them writing, “Definitely watching this on the big screen. My cousin was lucky to see Tom doing the runs and crew filming around Trafalgar square and said Tom was very friendly interacting with some of the crowd.” Another said, “Almost 30 years and we’re here, let’s light the fuse. One last time.”
Another fan commented on everything Tom did in the trailer, and through the years, instead of using CGI, “Running on the ground, jumping from a plane, escaping an explosion, diving in a submarine... Tom Cruise is the true fifth element!” A fan even commented, “MAXIMUM RESPECT for a man who risks his life to deliver the best entertainment!”
Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning
Returning to head this picture is Christopher McQuarrie, who has directed all of the series' films since Rogue Nation. Dead Reckoning- Part 1 and 2 was the original title of Mission: Impossible 7 and 8, however it was changed after the 7th movie.
Shea Whigham, Vanessa Kirby, Pom Klemetieff, Henry Czerny, Holt McCallany, Nick Offerman, Greg Tarzan Davis, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, and Vanessa Kirby join Tom in this project. On May 23, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning will be released across theatres by Paramount.
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