Ethan Hunt is pulling out all of the stops to pull off his potential final adventure in the new Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
trailer. The next installment in the long-running action franchise will serve as the conclusion to the two-part story that began in ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Reckoning, with Ethan and his crew racing to stop The Enтιтy from being unleashed and sparking a nuclear war. Alongside Tom Cruise, the ensemble Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning cast sees the returns of Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny and Angela Bᴀssett.
With just over a month left until the blockbuster hits theaters, Paramount Pictures has unveiled a new trailer for Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning. The video showcases some of the major action sequences to come from the sequel, namely Ethan hanging on to a plane as it soars through the sky, while also seemingly teasing a change in the relationship between him and Kittridge (Czerny), which involves them being more allies than enemies. Check out the trailer below:
What This Means For Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Ethan’s Next Mission Will Feature One Big Change
Kittridge has always been a somewhat slippery figure in the Mission: Impossible movies. He wasn’t a true villain in the original 1996 movie or in ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Reckoning, but he has generally been an antagonist for Ethan, attempting to reign in Cruise’s operative and exert control. The fact that Ethan and Kittridge could be working together in The Final Reckoning speaks to the size and scale of the threat facing the world this time around, with Ethan seemingly the only person who can be trusted to stop annihilation on a global scale.
Ethan has, over the past seven movies, often gone rogue or operated outside the lines of what government agencies would consider acceptable. With Kittridge now in his corner in the Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning story, he will seemingly have more resources than ever before, with Holt McCallany’s new character asking, incredulously, “You gave him an aircraft carrier?” McCallany is one of several new cast members featured in the trailer, along with Nick Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Tramell Tillman, and Katy O’Brian.
Rolf Saxon will also be returning in The Final Reckoning as William Donloe, the CIA analyst that Hunt outsmarts in the original Mission: Impossible.
Our Take On The New Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Trailer
Cruise’s Potentially Last Outing As Ethan Hunt Could Be His Best
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As is customary with each new Mission: Impossible movie, The Final Reckoning looks to feature Cruise’s most dangerous and extreme stunts yet. The sequence involving Cruise clinging to the outside of a biplane, which was filmed in South Africa, is, by itself, a major upping of the ante after the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ Reckoning ending, but it also looks like Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie are attempting some ambitious action underwater involving the Sevastopol submarine.
Ethan often finds himself with few people he can trust on his missions, and it will be interesting to see him working with the backing of the government this time around. If past movies are any indication, though, whatever alliance that exists between him and Kittridge probably won’t last for the entire movie. It still has not been explicitly confirmed whether Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning will be the last mission for Hunt, but the latest trailer suggests that, if it is, Cruise will be going out with a bang.
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