Paramount just released the teaser trailer for Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, the re-titled continuation of 2023’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1. The new title sure rolls off the tongue better, but the movie — not just the characters — faces the most impossible mission yet.
The Final Reckoning stars Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, and Hayley Atwell, and they’ll be joined by newcomers Holt Mcallany, Indira Varma, Hannah Wadingham, Nick Offerman, and Tramell Tillman.
The teaser seems to be building up towards a massive conclusion to the entire series. It amps up the trend of Part 1 and Mission: Impossible — Fallout, which featured a bunch of callbacks to the first movie in the series. This time we also see callbacks to the third — and arguably one of the best — in the series. It also looks as spectacular as you’d expect, with a huge underwater set piece, and the already often talked-about sequence involving a plane chase.
The Final Reckoning might be doomed from the start
Regardless of the quality of the spectacle at hand, the odds are stacked against the film. Dead Reckoning: Part 1 came out after the massively successful Mission: Impossible — Fallout, as well as the even more successful Tom Cruise flick Top Gun: Maverick. And, despite rave reviews, ended up underperforming seriously. One of the few things we already know about The Final Reckoning is how over budget its production went, dire news for a movie Paramount couldn’t ensure was ever going to even break even.
The decision to change the title to something more stand-alone-sounding must’ve been related to the necessity of bringing new fans on board, instead of relying on the sadly low number of people who went to see the previous movie. This teaser, the upcoming final trailer, and the people who caught the previous film on streaming will have to perform a feat of Herculean strength to make this one pay off. In case it doesn’t, and against Tom Cruise’s will to do it until he’s in his 80s, The Final Reckoning seems like it’s cooking a perfect send-off to the whole series.
The fourth Christopher McQuarrie-directed entry in the Mission: Impossible franchise will be released in theaters on May 23, 2025.
Published: Nov 11, 2024 03:26 pm