Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning (2025)
Ethan Hunt and the IMF team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity - which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe - with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Ethan's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.
Luther Stickell: Our lives are not defined by any one action. Our lives are the sum of our choices
Ethan Hunt: Erika, I need you to trust me... one last time.
Ethan Hunt: You must be Captain Bledsoe.
Captain Bledsoe: And you must be... out of your mind.
Gabriel: [referring to Ethan] For every life he tries to save, he's gambled millions more, doubling down and down again. And now the fate of every living soul on Earth is his responsibility. You must be exhausted.
Luther Stickell: What are we gonna do? Retire? Go fishing? This is my mission. This is what I was born to do.
Luther Stickell: [closing monologue] Hello, brother. If you're listening to this, the world is still here and so are you. For the record, I never had a moment of doubt. I knew you'd find a way. You always do. I hope, in time, you can see this life is not some quirk of fate. This was your calling. Your destiny. A destiny that touches every living thing. Like it or not, we are masters of our fate. Nothing is written. And our cause, however righteous, pales in comparison to the impact of our effect. Any hope for a better future comes from willing that future into being. A future reflecting the measure of good within ourselves.And all that is good inside us is measured by the good we do for others. We all share the same fate -- the same future. The sum of our infinite choices. One such future is built on kindness, trust, and mutual understanding, should we choose to accept it. Driving without question towards a light we cannot see. Not just for those we hold close, but for those we'll never meet. I hope you know I'll always love you, brother. And I will see you again, though I hope it's not too soon. The world still needs you. Of course, they'll never know it, but we did it. We, who live and die in the shadows. This message will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Ethan.
Aurland, Vestland, Norway
Port Edward, South Africa
(location)
Svalbard, Norway
(Artic islands off the coast of Norway. Filming March 2023.)
Hayley Atwell was eight and a half months pregnant when she shot a fight scene for the movie.
The date that President Sloane sends to Admiral Neely, implying vast importance in the characters' lives, is May 22, 1996. This is also the release date of Mission: Impossible (1996).
Pom Klementieff (Paris) worked so hard on her stunts that she was nicknamed "Pom Cruise."
The seventh and eighth installments were planned to be filmed back to back. This changed after the seventh completed filming, due to Tom Cruise having to leave to do promotion for Top Gun: Maverick (2022), as well as the difficulties of filming massive action scenes under strict COVID-19 prevention protocols.
In October 2023, in addition to announcing that the film would be delayed nearly a year, Paramount also announced that the film would drop the "Dead Reckoning: Part Two" subtitle, but it will still be a direct sequel.
Continuity
When the map of Russia goes red due to the loss of nuclear weapons control, the top area of Pakistan is visible, which should be red as it's a nuclear power that has lost control. However, the map shows Pakistan as white.
Near the climax during the biplane scene with Ethan climbing about the red biplane, there is a cut where the pilot briefly disappears.
Factual errors
Ethan dives deep into the sea and enters the submarine Sevastopol. He easily opens the doors to swim into no-water chambers. There is no way he could do that because the pressure of water would hold the doors strongly closed.
If one nuclear power would lose control over its nuclear arsenal to an artificial intelligence entity, it would certainly immediately trigger a DEFCON 1 threat level. In the movie, several nuclear powers have lost control over their nuclear weapons and the DEFCON level is only at 3.
Siloed missiles are shown with various national flags. Neither France nor the UK have silo based nuclear missiles.
Pilot (and aircrew) parachutes do not have a reserve chute.
The UK only maintains a submarine nuclear arsenal which is air gapped. The prime minister writes a letter for each captain in a submarine with their instruction before launch. As such taking over the command and control center would not give control of the arsenal itself which remains under the control of each captain.
Revealing mistakes
The fire in the SOSUS station spreads much more rapidly than it would in reality. Some sort of accelerant had to have been used for filming purposes.
The shot of the nuclear warhead approaching San Francisco when Ethan is communicating with the Entity is flipped horizontally. Compare to the original (correctly oriented) version of that scene taken from MI: Ghost Protocol.
Errors in geography
As the lights go back on around the world, it is simultaneously nighttime in both the eastern and western hemispheres.
The notion that transmitting antipodal coordinates would somehow trick the Russians into going to the wrong location makes no sense. While the Russians didn't know the exact coordinates where the Sevastopol sank, they certainly knew in which hemisphere it occurred.
In the final scene, Ethan exits the London Underground from an exit marked "Trafalgar Square" onto the famous landmark. There is no Underground exit at this location; the exit Tom Cruise walks out of is a public toilet. The sign has been added for the film as there is no Trafalgar Square Underground station in London. The closest station to Trafalgar Square is Charing Cross.
Character error
At one point General Sidney orders a Marine Gunnery Sergeant on guard duty to surrender his side arm to him. No Marine would surrender his weapon to anyone, regardless of rank without proper procedure. The ghost of Chesty Puller could appear and tell a Marine to surrender his sidearm and the Marine still wouldn't do it. It violates their 5th general order.
Kittridge says that the bombing of the Kremlin in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) was specifically done to kill Ethan. This is not true; the bombing was done to cause the Russians to take a long time to notice that a nuclear device had been stolen.