It's the beginning of the end for Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt in first Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning trailer

Nov. 11, 2024

“One last time”

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The trailer for the new Mission: Impossible movie, now titled The Final Reckoning, has arrived.

In the Final Reckoning trailer, which you can see above, Ethan Hunt’s search for the second cruciform key goes on. Inevitably, that takes the IMF agent on a globetrotting tour punctuated with all manner of stunts and action sequences.

The biggest moment, at least in terms of action, in the new Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning trailer involves Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt hanging upside down from a biplane, something we suspect has more than a hint of practicality to it.

Despite following on from Dead Reckoning, the new M:I movie has dropped the ‘Part Two’ from its title in favor of something, well, a little morefinal. Could this be Ethan Hunt’s farewell?

Previously, director Christopher McQuarrietold GamesRadar+ and the Inside Total Film podcastthat he had hoped for a neater divide between the two movies, not accounting for Dead Reckoning sprawling out into something altogether more grand and epic.

“I was hoping to make a four-hour epic and just cut it in half and everybody could have a two-hour movie, but here we are,” McQuarrie explained.

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“Instead of fighting the running time, I said let’s just cut the movie in half and give ourselves the breathing room to tell that story – not anticipating, then, that Part One would expand to the size that it did, the epic scale that it did.”

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I’m the Senior Entertainment Writer here at GamesRadar+, focusing on news, features, and interviews with some of the biggest names in film and TV. On-site, you’ll find me marveling at Marvel and providing analysis and room temperature takes on the newest films, Star Wars and, of course, anime. Outside of GR, I love getting lost in a good 100-hour JRPG, Warzone, and kicking back on the (virtual) field with Football Manager. My work has also been featured in OPM, FourFourTwo, and Game Revolution.

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