‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’s nostalgic trailer sees Tom Cruise out to save the world

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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning sees Tom Cruise out to save the world one final time – watch it below.The eighth film in the franchise will be the direct sequel to last year’s Dead Reckoning Part One, and based on the glimpses in the trailer, it appears that it may be the final outing for Cruise’s IMG agent Ethan Hunt.The clip shows new footage alongside images from the previous films, while a voiceover says, “Our lives are not defined by any one action, our lives are the sum of our choices.

Everything you were, everything you’ve done, has come to this.”See the trailer, complete with the requisite footage of Cruise running at top speed, hanging off airplanes and fighting in underwater combat, here:A post shared by Tom Cruise (@tomcruise)The trailer and the film’s title were confirmed in a post on Cruise’s Instagram on Monday (November 11), in which he wrote: “Our lives are the sum of our choices.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. See you at the movies May 23, 2025.”The trailer ends with Ethan Hunt asking somebody off camera, “I need you to trust me, one last time.”The film will be directed by Christopher McQuarrie, who also helmed Rogue Nation, Fallout and Dead Reckoning Part One, and will co-star Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff and Henry Czerny.McQuarrie has said in interviews, including with Fandango in 2023, that The Final Reckoning would not necessarily be the final film in the series and that they were working on ideas for future instalments.In a three-star review of Dead Reckoning Part One, NME wrote: “The problems come when Dead Reckoning tries to be too clever.