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I Watched Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning So You Don’t Have To

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EJ Moreno with his thoughts on the latest Mission: Impossible… Join me for a scathing look at Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning. With an admiration for the last film, and for Tom Cruise, the film should be easy to praise, but it barely reaches its potential. To quote the infamous Family Guy clip, ” It insists on […]

Movie Review – Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)

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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, 2025. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Mariela Garriga, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Tramell Tillman, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, Mark Gatiss, Rolf Saxon, Lucy Tulugarjuk, Angela Bassett, Marcin Dorociński, […]

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning featurette takes us behind-the-scenes of the Svalbard shoot

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Paramount Pictures has lit the fuse on the marketing campaign for Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning and released another behind-the-scenes video for the epic conclusion to the Tom Cruise headlined franchise. The action is once again orchestrated by Christopher McQuarrie and stars Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Vanessa Kirby, Hannah Waddingham, Mariela […]

Hang in there with Tom Cruise and the new Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning trailer

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After nearly 30 years of this action-packed franchise, we are nearing an epic conclusion. Here’s the trailer for Chris McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning, which premiered after the CinemaCon presentation last week as part of Paramount Pictures’ showcase. Following the story from 2023’s Dead Reckoning, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) now possesses the key necessary to defeat […]

Brace for The Final Reckoning with Mission: Impossible 8 trailer

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Paramount has released the first teaser trailer for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, the official title for the eighth film in the blockbuster Tom Cruise franchise. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning continues the story of Dead Reckoning (originally having Part I and Part IIas their titles) with Ethan Hunt and his team having once again […]

Mission: Impossible 8 delayed until 2025 and drops ‘Dead Reckoning – Part 2’ from title

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Paramount Pictures and Skydance have announced that they’re pushing back the eighth installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise by a year, and dropping Dead Reckoning – Part 2 from the title.  The shunt for the spy-franchise comes amidst a series of release date changes due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strikes. Mission: Impossible 8 shut down […]

Movie Review – Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)

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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, 2023. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Henry Czerny, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Cary Elwes, Shea Whigham, Mariela Garriga, Greg Tarzan Davis, Charles Parnell, Rob Delaney, Indira Varma, Mark Gatiss, Anton Valensi, Nico Toffoli, and Frederick Schmidt. […]

Video Review – Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is the perfect blockbuster

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EJ Moreno with a video review of Mission: Impossible 7… Tom Cruise leads what feels like a perfect action movie & summer blockbuster. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One offers everything you’d expect and then some. When your film only suffers from “why can’t I have more” syndrome, you know you’re in for a […]

Go behind-the-scenes of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning’s spectacular train set-piece

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“No one else in the world is doing this level of practical filmmaking” claims Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning director Christopher McQuarrie, who’s introducing a behind-the-scenes look at one of the film’s many spectacular stunts.  The train sequence, which makes up the breath-taking finale of the blockbuster sequel, was filmed on top of a carriage that […]

Tom Cruise goes speedflying in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One featurette

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Paramount Pictures has released a new feature for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, which takes us behind the scenes of the blockbuster and sees director Christopher McQuarrie, Skydive coordinator Jon Devore and star Tom Cruise discussing the film’s dangerous speedflying stunt sequence; watch it below… In Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, […]