Tom Cruise shares a new Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
behind-the-scenes video, teasing a claustrophobic underwater action sequence. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, who also helmed the previous three Mission: Impossible movies, the upcoming film features Cruise back as Ethan Hunt, finishing his fight against the rogue AI threat known as The Enтιтy. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning trailers have hyped a series of mind-blowing stunts in the movie, including one involving the Sevastopol submarine.
As the film’s release approaches, Cruise takes to Instagram to share the latest look at The Final Reckoning, hyping that the underwater sequence in the movie is the culmination of decades’ worth of experience. He calls the end result “an underwater sequence unlike any other,” with the video teasing Hunt gaining access to The Enтιтy’s spherical housing aboard the sunken Russian sub. Check out his post and caption below:
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From Legend in 1985 to Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, I have been studying and filming underwater sequences for over 40 years. We have always tried to push our filmmaking to the next level, and in this movie McQ and I saw an opportunity to create an underwater sequence unlike any other. We are excited to share it with you.
At the same time, Paramount Pictures also shares a new look at Mission: Impossible 8‘s underwater action in a new video, which shows how Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie used hand signals to communicate while below the surface. Check it out below:
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Mission: Impossible 8 Will Improve On One Sequence From Rogue Nation
With each new Mission: Impossible movie, Cruise has risked his life in new ways, with Mission: Impossible – ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Reckoning (2023), for example, featuring the actor driving a motorcycle off a cliff into a base jump. The Final Reckoning looks to take Cruise’s stunts to the next level, featuring both an underwater sequence and an aerial sequence in which the star clings to the side of a biplane. These two sequences are on top of the running, fighting, and shooting teased in the movie’s trailers.
The quest to stop The Enтιтy remains the main storyline in the film, and the latest video confirms that Hunt will eventually gain access to the red, orb-like housing for the AI’s controls. It won’t be a straightforward dive for Hunt, however, as the video teases that the sub will begin to fall apart, with torpedoes coming loose and blocking entrances and exits. This marks the second major underwater sequence for Cruise and McQuarrie after Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015), which featured a more contained underwater set piece in a data vault.
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Ethan Hunt Could Go Out With A Bang
Though the underwater sequence in Rogue Nation was thrilling, The Final Reckoning looks to be taking underwater action to an entirely new level, with the set piece poised to be much larger and more involved. While the former took place in a spherical data vault, the latter involves an entire submarine in the Arctic, with the torpedoes poised to potentially make the entire ordeal far more dangerous for Hunt.
Cruise set a record during the filming of Rogue Nation by holding his breath underwater for six minutes, the then longest breath-hold for a lead actor in a movie. Kate Winslet then broke Cruise’s record in 2022 with a seven-minute and 15-second breath-hold while filming Avatar: The Way of Water.
It’s possible that The Final Reckoning will be the last Mission: Impossible movie, and it’s clear that Cruise and McQuarrie are pulling out all the stops to make the film as entertaining for audiences as possible. Whether the submarine set piece is the climactic sequence of the movie remains to be seen, but it could certainly be a thrilling way for Hunt’s story to wrap up. With Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning now only a few weeks away, it won’t be long before audiences find out.
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