Paramount has shared a new trailer for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning at CinemaCon. After making his debut as superspy Ethan Hunt in 1996’s original Mission: Impossible, Tom Cruise reunites with director Christopher McQuarrie for the upcoming eighth installment, with Ethan facing off against Gabriel (Esai Morales) and the Enтιтy once more after 2023’s ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Reckoning. The Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning story is potentially set to serve as Ethan’s swansong, with trailers teasing Cruise’s biggest stunts yet.
Recently, at CinemaCon 2025, where ScreenRant was in attendance, the studio unveiled a new teaser for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. The teaser opens with Hunt clinging to the side of a small-engine plane, with snippets from previous movies then flashing across the screen. This includes his CIA vault heist from the original movie, but also the Kremlin bombing from Ghost Protocol and Hunt’s gᴀssing of intelligence community leaders in ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Reckoning.
The trailer then cuts to Hunt being arrested by the military, presumably to work for them, with Gabriel voiceover taunting: “Your team has betrayed you. All of your secrets, compromised.” Eugene Kittridge (Henry Czerny) then says, “Everything you are. Everything you’ve done has come to this.” The trailer shows Hunt and his team getting an aircraft carrier to accomplish their mission before footage plays of Cruise clinging to the side of a plane, jumping into the ocean, and trying to survive underwater. The trailer ends with Hunt saying to his team, “I need you to trust me one last time.”
What This Means For Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Will It Be The Last One?
Notably absent from this The Final Reckoning trailer and Mission: Impossible‘s presence at CinemaCon is confirmation one or another about whether the upcoming film will be the last one. There is certainly a sense of finality to the film in terms of Ethan’s journey, and this is supported by Kittridge’s statements in the latest trailer about Ethan’s life all leading to this. In a February interview with Empire, McQuarrie called The Final Reckoning the “conclusion to a 30-year story arc,” while Cruise, when asked if it will be his last one, simply said: “You gotta see the movie.”
As for the story of The Final Reckoning itself, it looks to be making some changes from previous installments. Cruise and his team, who have worked for the IMF and as rogue operatives across the previous seven films, look to be falling under the umbrella of a larger intelligence operation after the Mission: Impossible – ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Reckoning ending. This evidently means Hunt and his team will have more resources at their disposal, including an aircraft carrier, as they work to track down Gabriel and find the Sevastopol submarine to kill the Enтιтy.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning‘s cast is confirmed to include Rolf Saxon returning as William Donloe, the CIA analyst who Ethan and his team duped in the 1996 original film.
Our Take On The New Final Reckoning Trailer
Mission: Impossible Could Go Out With A Bang
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It seems like Cruise and McQuarrie are keeping their options open. The Final Reckoning seems as if it could serve as the last chapter in the franchise if needed, but the ending will almost certainly leave the door ajar for an Ethan Hunt return should inspiration strike.
Whether Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is or is not the last movie in the franchise probably won’t become clear for some time, but it does look to feature the best action in the saga’s history. Cruise, with his plane stunts and the underwater action involving the Sevastopol, is pulling out all the stops and carrying out his most dangerous stunt work yet, meaning audiences are in for an entertaining ride.
Source: CinemaCon
