Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning Trailer Review: Ethan Hunt’s endgame begins!

The trailer for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning has finally arrived, and it’s everything fans of the franchise have come to expect - and more. Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt in what promises to be a high-stakes, emotionally charged farewell to a character who’s been running, climbing, leaping, and saving the world for nearly three decades. But this isn’t just another impossible mission. This is the mission - the one that ties it all together.

Ethan is in government custody

The film opens on an unusual image: Ethan Hunt, restrained and escorted through a high-security government facility. For a man who’s spent most of his career rewriting rules, this moment feels like a reckoning. His long history of going rogue may have finally caught up with him.

What lands him in cuffs remains unclear — is this fallout from Dead Reckoning or a decision he’s yet to make in Final Reckoning? Interestingly, the officials waiting for him don’t look triumphant — they look uneasy, as though they’re uncertain about having him back in the building.

Picking up where we they left off

Dialogue from a tense government debrief reveals that only two months have passed since the events of Dead Reckoning. A reference to the gas attack at a security summit — a key moment from the previous film — anchors this sequel directly in its aftermath. The wounds are fresh, and so is the threat.

A new kind of threat: The Entity

In a bold departure from previous villains, this chapter’s antagonist is not a man or an organization — it’s an idea. After Ethan had faced formidable human foes like Owen Davian, Solomon Lane, and August Walker, he finally found his match in a malicious A.I. known simply as “The Entity.” Out of all the Mission: Impossible villains, The Entity is the most powerful by far. The Entity, a rogue artificial intelligence, is capable of manipulating intelligence systems, rewriting digital histories, and erasing identities. In a world built on information, truth, and surveillance, an AI that can rewrite reality is the ultimate threat — and perhaps the perfect metaphor for a franchise built on deception, masks, and shifting identities.

In The Final Reckoning , Ethan isn’t fighting it from the outside. He’s plugging in. The trailer shows him getting into a machine and hooking himself up to some sort of VR headset that allows him to connect directly to The Entity.

Direct link to danger

One of the trailer’s most cryptic sequences shows Ethan connected to a mysterious system - strapped in, headset on, fully immersed. This appears to be a direct neural interface with The Entity, blurring the line between man and machine.

What he sees in that moment is a flash-flood of fear: a lightning-fast montage filled with distorted memories, glimpses of Grace and Benji, and haunting images too quick to process in real time. Is The Entity showing him the future, or just the worst versions of it?

Let’s Talk About Those Stunts

Fighter jet chase, car chases through narrow alleys, a motorbike off a cliff…YES THAT ONE, hand-to-hand combat in every corner of the globe, we’ve seen it all in this action packed trailer. You already know Cruise did all of it for real. It’s giving IMAX-worthy madness and we are here for it.

One final emotional roller coaster

This final trailer doesn’t just deliver on the action, it really hits emotionally too. There is this weight to everything like it’s all finally catching up to Ethan. You can see how much he’s struggling, questioning the mission, the people around him and what he’s willing to lose. As he asks to trust him for “One Last Time”, it’s not just about stopping the bad guys anymore - it feels way more personal.

There’s a heavy air of finality here — not just in tone, but in how the trailer revisits Ethan’s past. Nick Offerman’s character, part of the U.S. intelligence elite, reviews Ethan’s classified file, ticking off some of the IMF agent’s most legendary operations: the CIA break-in from the 1996 original, the Kremlin explosion from Ghost Protocol — and more. It’s looking into the past and going over Ethan’s storied history - Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could really be the endgame.

There’s a sense of coming full circle — of unfinished business, lingering guilt, and choices that can no longer be outrun. And we’re here for it!