Check out the brand new trailer for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning below:

This new trailer for Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning picks up following the events of 2023’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. The action and drama intertwine as ace IMF agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team race against the clock to stop a literal Armageddon event spearheaded by the elusive Gabriel (Esai Morales), who is in service to rogue AI, The Entity. It’s going to be a show-stopping watch!

The action and intensity of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is a completely out-of-this-world experience, and Cruise is going for his most deadly and intense stunt yet, which involves a bi-plane and plenty of barrel loops, and it all makes for a hell of a lot of fun!

This trailer’s experience is thrown head-first at audiences, and you can’t help but feel pumped for what is to come next. The exhilaration of seeing Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning up on the BIG SCREEN will make this a must-watch cinematic event!

 

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Get ready for action, danger, thrills, romance and pure adrenaline-charged escapism when Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning arrives in cinemas on May 17.

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In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan’s past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission – not even the lives of those he cares about most.

Building on a professional relationship that started with 2008’s Valkyrie, director Christopher McQuarrie and action star Tom Cruise amp up the intensity with the seventh instalment of the Mission: Impossible franchise, Dead Reckoning. And it’s one hell of a wild ride. Sharing a terrific creative dialogue between the two of them, McQuarrie and Cruise have one goal with Dead Reckoning: Make It Big! And damn, do they do that with this picture. What they deliver is a film of large spectacle, with all the trimmings, and this is a luxe and sexy movie to watch. They know that they’re playing in the spy genre with this film, and they push the direction of the genre to its limits with a pulse-pounding watch that will have you on the edge of your seat. It’s a truly globe-trotting adventure filled with exotic locations, glamourous costuming, fast-paced sexed-up energy, and one hell of a shot of adrenaline that leaves audiences flawed.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is a clever and intriguing watch for audiences. Both McQuarrie and Cruise draw on current real-world fears of AI and the future of global security for the foundation of the film’s kinetic narrative. Right from the opening credits, this is an explosive story that moves fast, and it takes its audience with it. There’s also the move by McQuarrie and Cruise to look back to the past and the original story of 1996’s seminal Mission: Impossible film, and this leads to interesting narrative moves. With Dead Reckoning, you get both the best of a throwback to the past and that feeling of nostalgia, along with a contemporary and speed-driven story. The focus with both our director and star is to keep things moving and give the audience the experience of the ultimate spy genre film. And we’re taken there in Dead Reckoning.

For twenty-seven years, Tom Cruise has been keeping audiences entertained as intrepid super spy Ethan Hunt. Always eager to outdo himself with each new production and push this franchise into a bold new direction, Cruise absolutely goes for it in Dead Reckoning. And it’s awe-inspiring to witness. But while it’s easy to get caught up in his death-defying stunts, there’s a true character transformation going on for Ethan Hunt this time around. Having lived his life in the shadows and being ready for each new danger, Dead Reckoning forces Cruise’s Hunt to look back on his life’s work and reconcile with the events that have led him to this new threat. We see a man who places the value of humanity first, grappling with very real issues of sacrifice and the greater good, and Hunt has a hell of a choice to make this time around. Cruise is a hundred per cent committed to his performance, and he works to give his audience a spectacle they won’t soon forget.

A new addition to the franchise is British thespian Hayley Atwell as Grace. And she holds her own by Cruise’s side. Taking on a character who is a seductive, alluring and quick-witted femme fatale in the classic manner, Atwell’s Grace is a talented thief who, unbeknownst to her, stumbles into a far more dangerous game than she could ever have thought to play. And these stakes are do or die. With her penchant for sleight-of-hand trickery, Atwell’s Grace is a great new find for the Mission: Impossible franchise and her fresh-eyed perspective is a big boost for the story. She has great chemistry with Cruise that slides between unwilling allie to sparkling romanticism, and these two are a great pair on the screen. Captivating and sexy, Atwell’s Grace is a terrific throwback to similar characters present throughout the franchise and the genre, and she jumps into the action like a natural.

Facing down Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt this time is a dark shadow from the premiere spy’s past. As Gabriel, Esai Morales, is best described as a mixture of angel and devil, the chosen messenger of a formless sentient AI god. Morales’ Gabriel is a man blessed with a talent for violence, and his past makes for a sinister echo that Cruise’s Hunt can’t shake. Morales’ performance is delivered at full force, and there’s some wicked mano-o-mano action between himself and Cruise. As a performer, Morales holds back enough to keep the intrigue heavy for audiences, and I’m certain that there’s more to appear with Hunt’s dangerous new adversary.

The IMF team are also back for Dead Reckoning, and Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, and Ving Rhames are once again having a blast with this feature. For Hunt’s team, things get personal this time around, and each of them comes to learn just how willing Hunt is willing to go to the ends of the earth to protect each of them. Pom Klementieff brings dazzling sadism to the role of master assassin Paris, a key instrument in Gabriel’s arsenal of destruction, and she misbehaves with plenty of death following in her wake. Vanessa Kirby once again brings her grand sense of opulence and control to the elegant Alanna Mitsopolis, aka The White Widow, and she’s a ball to watch on screen. Finally, Henry Czerny returns as the disdastardly Eugene Kittridge, and time has not improved his strained relationship with Ethan Hunt.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One takes audiences into action overdrive, and the intensity of this film will set your heart racing. Cruise is one who is always looking to push the envelope, and that’s exactly what he does with this feature. Beginning with an epic gun battle in the Arabian desert, to a suped-up car chase through the streets of Rome, to a dramatic and bloody beatdown in Venice, Cruise doesn’t lift his foot off the accelerator. But’s the film’s mega stunt, an awe-inspiring motorcycle cliff jump, that will leave you holding your breath and gripping your seat with adrenaline. And it’s Cruise all the way through. Knowing that the star performed the stunt on six separate occasions only adds to the thrill of it all, and audiences are delivered into a heart-stopping third-act train fight aboard the Orient Express. The action of Dead Reckoning is action filmmaking on a whole other level, and it’s a spectacle you don’t want to miss out on.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is a film that is made for the giant canvas of the cinema screen, and it’s a display of blockbuster excellence. It’s a cinema-going experience of pure fun, and you’ll want to see this one on the biggest screen possible. And all I can say is, bring on Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two!

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Watch the official trailer for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One below:

Here’s the official synopsis:

Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their dangerous mission to track down a terrifying weapon that threatens humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan’s past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious and a powerful nemesis named Gabriel, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission – not even the lives of those he cares about most.

Continuing in his long-time partnership with Cruise is filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie and both he and Cruise are pushing Ethan Hunt further than he’s ever been before in this intense new spy thriller-action film that places emphasis on a do-or-die mission that will take Hunt to his absolute limits.

The trailer is bold and places audiences right at the forefront of the drama as Hunt faces an extreme new threat from a dangerous shadow from his past in the form of Esai Morales Gabriel. Morales’ Gabriel is hellbent on Hunt’s death, along with the literal collapse of the IMF and he’s a smouldering threat who will very happily stick the knife into Cruise’s Hunt.

And let’s not forget the action. And damn does Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One crank this up here. Not only do we have a deeper look at the film’s signature motorcycle cliff jump, but we also get a decent look at both a high-stakes car chase through the streets of London, along with a brutal fight between Hunt and Gabriel aboard a fast-moving train. And it’s winner take all!

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is fully going for it with its rush of action and energy and audiences who are seeking their adrenaline will find it with this picture when it arrives in cinemas on July 13.

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When an IMF mission ends badly, the world suddenly faces dire consequences. Feeling responsible for the fallout, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) personally takes it upon himself to complete the mission, but the CIA begins to question his loyalty and his motives. Finding himself in a race against time, while being pursued by a host of ruthless assassins, Ethan will have to use every bit of his considerable willpower to complete the mission and stop a global catastrophe.

Cruise is back for this, his sixth installment, of the long-running Mission: Impossible series and he has again found the edge of the action genre and decided to push it even further. Whenever you hear that Tom Cruise wants to return as Ethan Hunt you know that he’s ready to step things up a notch. And the bar keeps getting raised. From hanging upside down in the middle of CIA headquarters to free soloing in Moab, Utah to performing a full fulcrum swing dive in Shanghai and running around the edge of the Burj Khalifa before finally deciding to hang outside on the edge of a Atlas C1, Cruise absolutely knows no limits as Ethan Hunt and with each successive installment he plans to go bigger and bolder.

Why you ask? Not only does this stem from his desire to offer his audience the best possible time out at the movies, but I personally feel that to Cruise the Mission: Impossible franchise are his most personal film works. So much of himself as a performer and a man is wrapped up in the character of Ethan Hunt and that’s exactly where we come to in Mission: Impossible – Fallout. While the stunts and narrative will really have you wrapped up, here we get to discover what really makes Ethan Hunt tick and why he’s willing to risk his life so many times over for the sake of the world. What we discover is a profoundly moving answer and it will really make you more thankful that a man like Ethan Hunt is on our side. Cruise gives 110% and then some with this performance and he truly succeeds in entertaining his audience.

Mission: Impossible – Fallout is film that also brings everything together for the fans and this all stems from Cruise. On the narrative level it goes right back to the first film and threads all of the events of Ethan Hunt’s life back together. It’s a very ambitious move for Cruise to lead the film in this direction but it really pays off and once more allows us to go in deeper on the character of Ethan Hunt.

But Mission: Impossible – Fallout is not simply a one man show as it takes a team of visionaries working together to pull together these gigantic world saving action extravaganzas and that’s exactly where Cruise’s long time collaborator Christopher McQuarrie comes into the frame.

Following up on their work together on Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, both director and star engage in what is really their first ever direct sequel to a Mission: Impossible film. They kick things off quickly and the action of the narrative ramps up fast. You can see that McQuarrie really wants to deliver on the spectacle that he first offered in Rogue Nation and the director succeeds in pushing the envelope even further. As a director he takes a hand in both the narrative and the action work and under his guidance Mission: Impossible – Fallout is the most practically shot action blockbuster of all time. McQuarrie put the emphasis on the real and the intensity absolutely shows up on screen taking your breath away with each new scene.

Along with his talents for narrative and action, McQuarrie also has an eye for talent and this led him to cast Henry Cavill as the antagonistic August Walker, a brutal CIA assassin who definitely has an axe to grind with Hunt. Cavill’s Walker stands in direct comparison to Cruise’s Hunt, as a hulking brute of a man Walker has no qualms about using blunt force to achieve his missions objectives and has little time for the ‘Halloween tricks’ of the IMF as he likes to call them. This puts him in direct opposition to Cruise’s Hunt and the firework do fly.

Cavill’s performance is his best yet and I’m not just talking about his scene-stealing mustache here. He really goes for it as Walker and his presence is an intimidating one at that. You completely buy him as the assassin sent in to ‘mind’ the IMF and Cavill does a great job at changing certain parts of the mission to suit his own agenda. I’m always interested to see an actor try something different and move to stretch themselves in the performance of their craft and that’s exactly what Cavill does here.

Along with the introduction of Cavill we also see the return of Rebecca Furguson as MI6 operative Ilsa Faust and this time Ilsa is pursuing her own agenda. While I can’t really go into details on her character’s involvement without running the risk of leading to spoilers I will say that her presence here offers plenty of new choices for Ethan and sparks do indeed fly. This introduction of a good dose of underlying romance really changes things up for Ethan this time and Ilsa’s presence is an interesting story thread. Naturally Ferguson again offers up a great performance and proves why she is becoming a vital part of the Mission: Impossible franchise.

And of-course your favourites are back as well. Once again Simon Pegg and the ever dependable Ving Rhames prove why they are stalwarts of the Mission: Impossible franchise. These two misfits really make up the heart of the franchise and any time they’re up on screen I always find myself smiling a little wider.

But now lets move to a more serious topic. You said you wanted action? YOU GOT IT! As an exercise in filmmaking Mission: Impossible – Fallout is the most practically shot action blockbuster ever made. Forget green screens. Forget stunt doubles. This is Tom Cruise in action, up on the big screen and absolutely going for it. And he truly holds nothing back this time. From a death defying HALO (High Altitude Low Opening) jump to a gnarly motorbike chase around the Arc de Triomphe to the stunt to end all stunts in the ambitious Helicopter chase, Mission: Impossible – Fallout has it all. Trust me when I tell you to strap yourself into your chair because your adrenal gland is going to be working overtime with this one.

While I’m trying to hold back on what occurs on screen I will say that the Helicopter Chase scene which was shot down in Queenstown, New Zealand is a truly exceptional piece of filmmaking. You’ve never seen anything like this before and I can’t think of anyone brave enough or indeed crazy enough to jump into it like Tom Cruise. Every single moment has Cruise at the throttle and he really takes you for a ride in this one. This is a countdown of nail-biting adrenaline as the action ramps up and up and up. With this scene you’re truly witnessing the genius of Cruise and McQuarrie and it’s a rush.

If you’re looking for an action experience to take you to the next level then you’ll definitely find it with Mission: Impossible – Fallout! This is a blockbuster made of pure adrenaline and it’s exactly what the movies were meant for and trust me when I say that it really is one hell of a fun ride.

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Check out the full trailer below:

Here’s the synopsis:

When an IMF mission ends badly, the world suddenly faces dire consequences. Feeling responsible for the fallout, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) personally takes it upon himself to complete the mission, but the CIA begins to question his loyalty and his motives. Finding himself in a race against time, while being pursued by a host of ruthless assassins, Ethan will have to use every bit of his considerable willpower to complete the mission and stop a global catastrophe.

Action’s the name of the game with Mission: Impossible – Fallout and this new trailer is packed to the brim with it.

Motorcycle chases, gun fights, close quarter combat, and one hell of a helicopter ride promise what could very well be the ultimate spy thriller. Tom Cruise has been portraying Ethan Hunt for twenty-two years now and he really wants to do this sixth installment of the franchise right. It’s go big or go home here and he’s leaving all of his cards on the table with this one.

Narratively this film is going right back to the beginning and again pitting Cruise’s Hunt up against the CIA just like he did back in 1996’s Mission: Impossible. Except this time he’ll have to contend with ally turned adversary August Walker (Henry Cavill) a lethal black ops assassin who has been tasked to keep Hunt and the IMF in-line or eliminate them if they pose a threat.

Mixed into this is Rebecca Ferguson’s Ilsa Faust who begins to question just how rationale Hunt is and this will no-doubt lead to some heavy drama. Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames are also back as hacker odd-couple Benji Dunn and Luther Stickell, and anytime you know these two are on-screen it’s going to be good.

From the first trailer to the recent behind-the-scenes look at the title sequence, director Christopher McQuarrie has slowly been offering an insight into the latest installment of the franchise. What he showcases is a film that appears to be the best representation of the what the Mission: Impossible franchise is along with seriously upping the ante for the character of Ethan Hunt and fans of the character. Everything in Fallout is laid out on the line for Hunt and there’s no place for any kind of mistakes. he’s playing for keeps this time and the intensity really mounts up quickly.

This intensity is especially seen in the film’s full on action sequences which come rushing at you and don’t ease up for a second. From a high speed motorcycle chase through the streets of Paris to a brutal fight scene of Cruise and Cavill going mano-o-mano on the top of a mountain which leads to one hell of a fall. The action just ramps up second by second and this can only be good for film fans.

The new trailer for Mission: Impossible – Fallout really got me amped and I certainly was blown away by the action that unfolded before me. Check out my full reaction trailer below and let me know what you thought it:

Mission: Impossible – Fallout promises to be an absolute rush on the big screen and you won’t to miss it when it arrives in cinemas on August 2.

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The brand new trailer has just been released and you can check out all of its incredible moments below:

Here’s the synopsis:

When an IMF mission ends badly, the world suddenly faces dire consequences. Feeling responsible for the fallout, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) personally takes it upon himself to complete the mission, but the CIA begins to question his loyalty and his motives. Finding himself in a race against time, while being pursued by a host of ruthless assassins, Ethan will have to use every bit of his considerable willpower to complete the mission and stop a global catastrophe.

If you’re looking for action then you’ll find it with Mission: Impossible – Fallout. This is blockbuster entertainment on a huge canvas and Cruise has definitely out-did himself with this one. Not only do we get a compelling story, but director Christopher McQuarrie has also stated that the film will also serve to explain Ethan’s origins and just how they made him the man he is today.

In addition to Cruise, the new trailer also shines a light on Henry Cavill’s August Walker. As soon as Cavill was cast his moustache got some serious attention and this intense CIA operative looks like he’ll serve as both ally and antagonist to Ethan Hunt with the two of them trading blows on more than one occasion within the trailer.

However, if there is one thing that definitely caught my attention then it had to have been the film’s epic helicopter stunt! Described as ‘the stunt to end all stunts’ by Cruise, the first footage of this mid-air helicopter battle looks utterly intense and will carve out the way for one hell of a climactic action scene.

Check out my full reaction to the trailer below and find out just what I’m excited to see from this awesome new film:

Mission: Impossible – Fallout is must watch cinema at its best and long-time spy genre fans will definitely be salivating with this one when it is released in cinemas on August 2.

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