Tom Cruise is bringing death-defying stunts to the big screen once again.
The latest installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise, Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, is set to premiere in theaters on May 23, and will see Cruise return as field agent Ethan Hunt. Other familiar faces from the series, including Ving Rhames (Luther Stickell) and Simon Pegg (Benji Dunn), will also reprise their roles.
The Final Reckoning , the eighth Mission: Impossible movie, will pick up where the 2023 film Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning left off. Hunt and his team are still in the midst of a potentially catastrophic fight against a rogue artificial intelligence machine dubbed “the Entity.”
Though The Final Reckoning will conclude the events set up in the last film, director Christopher McQuarrie is careful to say whether or not this will be the final Mission: Impossible movie.
“It is, I hope, the satisfying conclusion to a 30-year story arc,” he told Empire in February 2025. “I’m pretty confident that people are going to feel that the title was appropriate.”
Here’s everything to know about Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning and if it will be the last film in the decades-long series.
How did Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning leave off?
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The seventh Mission: Impossible film left viewers on quite the cliffhanger. In Dead Reckoning , Ethan and the Impossible Missions Force (IMF) are tasked with taking down both the Entity and Gabriel (Esai Morales), an assassin determined to take control of the machine. The film ends in Venice, Italy, where Gabriel kills former MI6 agent turned ally Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson), who had been a part of the franchise since the 2015 film Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation .
Naturally, Ethan vows to avenge her death and stop Gabriel and the Entity once and for all.
