Cannes 2025: Tom Cruise gets 8-minute standing ovation for Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning

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, Vanessa Kirby and Pom Klementieff.