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The threat introduced in “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning” seems to be more present than ever in the sequel, scheduled for May 2025 in theaters.
CINEMa – Ethan Hunt never stops running. The American actor Tom Cruise himself unveiled this Monday, November 11, the first trailer for the new opus of the saga Mission Impossibleexpected in cinemas in May 2025.
In Mission Impossible : The Final Reckoningthe eighth film in the franchise and a direct sequel to Dead Reckoningthe spy character played by Tom Cruise will experience new thrills as we can see in these first images which take Ethan Hunt from the aquatic depths to the aerial summits.
In the previous opus, the Mission Impossible agent faced a whole new form of threat: an intangible and omnipotent artificial intelligence called “the Entity”, that Ethan Hunt made a point of destroying for the good of humanity. Far from being completed at the end of the previous film (once called Dead Reckoning Partie 1)Tom Cruise's mission will therefore continue in this second film, ultimately named « Final Reckoning » and not Dead Reckoning Partie 2 ».
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“Our lives are not defined by just one of our actions. Our lives are the sum of our choices,” can we hear in the trailer, promising a new foray into the spy's past, as suggested by an echo of a famous scene from the first film. “Everything you have been, everything you have done, has led us to this”is also issued as a warning to Ethan Hunt.
Last lap?
In terms of thrills, an inseparable promise of the franchise since its arrival on the big screen in 1996 under the leadership of Brian de Palma, there will be plenty to do in The Final Reckoning. Between scuba diving in what appears to be the wreck of the submarine Sevastopol (sunk to the bottom of the Bering Sea in the previous film), running on a London bridge and chasing in (and on) biplanes in the wilderness.
These first images also show the famous AI keys, making it possible to control this artificial intelligence once again at the heart of the intrigue of this sequel.
Paramount Pictures France.
One of the keys to AI, a coveted artifact since the seventh film in the “Mission Impossible” franchise.
And a sign of the dramatic tension pushed to its climax in what could be Tom Cruise's last adventure in the franchise Mission impossiblethe trailer concludes with an enigmatic sentence from the actor to a still unknown character: “ Trust me. One last time. »
The film, without a release date in France, is announced for the end of May in the United States, still with Christopher McQuarrie behind the camera, as has been the case since the fifth film. The trailer also allows us to distinguish part of the cast summoned, all generations combined: Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg, Angela Bassett and even Ving Rhames.
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