“Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” Theatrical Poster
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning – the 8th entry in the long running Mission Impossible franchise – will be exploding to theaters on May 23, 2025.
Christopher McQuarrie (Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Mission: Impossible – Fallout) is back in the director’s chair, continuing from the events in 2023’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.
Originally meant to be titled Dead Reckoning Part Two, the film underwent significant changes following some disappointing box office results from its predecessor. The adjustments include not only the new title but also enhancements made to the storyline after the production delays stemming from industry-wide strikes (via PTG).
Don’t miss the New Teaser Trailer for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning below:
I imagine Cruise needs this after the Mummy debacle.
I may not like his religion, but I’m always happy to see him doing crazy stunts and fights.
This isn’t an asian or martial arts film. COF not on fire.
Tom Cruise is a Samurai… you forget 😉
I agree. They need to stick to their martial arts garbage, which all looks the same.
That being said, it looks vastly more appealing to me than any martial arts film produced in Hong Kong or China in the last 20 years or so. For my taste, after China took back Hong Kong (& CGI started being used in HK movies) the quality of action movies (movies in general?) produced there took a massive, steep dive. I think that also had to do with the fact that the talents & skills of the Peking Opera trained stars just couldn’t be equaled by the younger generation.
Based on that notion, there haven’t been any good Chinese martial art films since 2004.
At the top of my head, I can mention House of Fury, Fearless, Once Upon a Time in Shanghai, the Ip Man series, Kung Fu Jungle, Raging Fire, Fatal Contact, Shaolin, Twilight of the Warriors, and many more.
It’s useless to talk about how the golden age is over, but good movies with cool action are still being made even with a shitty government.
The Mission: Impossible series may not be martial arts films, but they’ve featured plenty of it, and a lot of cool people from the east contributed to why the action was good.
Thanks for giving me some titles I haven’t seen yet to check out (Once Upon A Time In Shanghai, Raging Fire, Shaolin, etc.), I’m sure a big part of the reason I’ve preferred “classics” from the 80s & early 90s has to do with the nostalgic value I feel for those films. That being said, I do think (based on movies like Fearless & some of the Ip Man movies that I’ve seen) CGI & digital wire removal did, again, for my taste, hurt the quality of action movies produced in Hong Kong. I know Jackie, Sammo & other stars from the “golden age” used wires, too, but they tended to be a bit more subtle with it.
Its not just the commies fault that HK stopped making the movies you love….the local HK audience stopped showing up for local productions. Jurassic Park had more of an impact on HK audiences viewing habits than commies did at least until a few years ago