Are we ready for our final reckoning with Tom Cruise’s ‘Mission: Impossible’ movies?

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning will be the last entry in the blockbuster franchise – or so it is rumoured. This is as difficult to imagine as the jaw-dropping stunts performed by Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt in seven previous films over nearly three decades.

The concluding part to Dead Reckoning (2023) sees Ethan faced with the mystery of the Entity, a dangerously rogue artificial intelligence programme. The gallery of villains includes Gabriel (Esai Morales), a figure from Ethan’s past who is linked to the death of Ethan’s lover.

Among the cast are Ving Rhames, the only actor to feature in every one of the previous movies, and Simon Pegg – who entered the Mission: Impossible universe in the third production – alongside Angela Bassett, Henry Czerny, Hayley Atwell and Pom Klementieff.

The Final Reckoning will be out in India on May 17, six days ahead of the US premiere. The film has already been released in Japan and was screened at the Cannes Film Festival now underway.

Although an air of finality hangs over the new movie, it’s possible that the series will continue in some form or the other. However, despite Tom Cruise ridiculous fitness levels, age is not on his side.

Born in 1962 (two years before Ethan Hunt), Cruise has pushed his...

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