Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’s new trailer is one big leap of faith
After multiple delays, Chris McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is finally making its way into theaters this summer, and Ethan Hunt is giving his all in the movie’s new trailer.
Though it’s filled with footage from previous movies, the new trailer teases a bit of how Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is about to put his life on the line again to take down the same dangerous artificial intelligence he fought in Dead Reckoning. With the AI’s influence spreading across the globe and endangering his allies Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg), Luther Strickell (Ving Rhames), and Grace (Hayley Atwell), Ethan’s got no choice but to make some risky decisions. The trailer makes it look like Ethan is going to somehow bond with his AI enemy to gain some insight into how it works, but that doesn’t seem nearly as dangerous as the way he’s going to be jumping off aircraft carriers into freezing oceans.
While it’s hard to imagine Paramount really ending the Mission: Impossible franchise the way The Final Reckoning’s title implies, Cruise is obviously doing his big one here with stunts designed to leave audiences stunned. That’s been the franchise’s whole deal for nearly three decades, and longtime fans are probably going to be in for a treat when the film debuts on May 23rd.